ARTICLES
The Persistent Color Line: Specific Instances of Racial Preference in Major League Player Evaluation Decisions after 1947
Steve Treder
Baseball and Television Origins: The Case of the Cubs
Robert V. Bellamy Jr. and James R. Walker
The American Church of Baseball and the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Roberta Newman
From Baseballs to Brassieres: The Use of Baseball in Magazine Advertising, 1890-1960
Ted Hathaway
Roman Mejias: Houston’s First Major League Latin Star and the Troubled Legacy of Race Relations in the Lone Star State
Ron Briley
Baseball Dynasties: Top and Bottom
Guy Waterman
Baseball during World War II: The Reaction and Encouragement of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Others
Gerald Bazer and Steven Culbertson
TRIPLE PLAY
In the Shadow of Greatness
Irving Goldfarb
Baseball’s Complete Players: Ratings of Total-Season Performance for the Greatest Players of the Twentieth Century
Tom Ruane
Both Sides of the Box: Two Book Reviews of Uncle Robbie
Brant E. Ducey
Chuck Partington
BOOK REVIEWS
Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture
Peter Carino
Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 through 1999
Larry R. Gerlach
The Money Pitch: Baseball Free Agency and Salary Arbitration
James W. Eaton
Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, The Player, and America’s Game
Dave Ogden
Young Babe Ruth: His Early Life and Baseball Career, from the Memoirs of a Xaverian Brother
James Tootle
Lefty Grove: An American Original
Merritt Clifton
The Race for the Governor’s Cup: The Pacific Coast Leagues Playoffs, 1936-1954
Richard Beverage
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1997 (Jackie Robinson)
Lee Lowenfish
Rookies Rated
George Goodman
Connie Mack’s ’29 Triumph: The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletics Dynasty
Anna R. Newton
Koufax
Jim La Follette
ORAL HISTORY
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson: The Last Female Voice of the Negro Leagues
Jean Hastings Ardell
Life in Minor League Baseball As a Chicago Cub Recruit—Half a Century Ago
Richard F. Triptow
FILM REVIEW
Baseball When It was a Game
Frank R. Ardolino