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Whatever Happened to the Marvelous Importance of the Unimportant? A Plea for Putting Today's Baseball and All-Sports Mania in Proper Perspective
Lee Lowenfish
"A Mirthful Spectacle": Race, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Base Ball, 1874-1888
James E. Brunson III
A Case of Cultural Forgetting: Black Newspapers' Presentation of Black Baseball in 1932
Thomas Aiello
Looking Bad on Paper, Worse on Film: Portrayals of Sports Journalists in Three Classic Baseball Films
John Carvalho and Nicholas Kirby
Rings Born of Impulse: Gift-Exchange Economies in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant
Ronald Kates
Driven: Branding Derek Jeter, Redefining Race
Roberta Newman
I'm the King of the World?: Barry Bonds and the "Race" for the Record
Lisa Doris Alexander
Triple Play
Ben Harjo's All-Indian Baseball Club
Royse Parr
Barnstorming, Baseball, and Bluegrass Music
David K. Jackson
Whither or Whether the Stolen Base?
Paul Bursik and Kevin Quinn
Book Reviews
The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969, and The Yankees in the Early 1960s
Mark Armour
The New York Mets: Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
David Shiner
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond
Roberta Newman
Anatomy of Baseball
Scott Peterson
The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949
William E. Akin
August "Garry" Herrmann: A Baseball Biography
Steve Steinberg
"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game
Christopher M. Keshock
Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography
Harry Jebsen Jr.
"Swish" Nicholson: A Biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger
James E. Martin
Working at the Ballpark: The Fascinating Lives of Baseball People, from Peanut Vendors and Broadcasters to Players and Managers
Harold V. Higham
The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit
John Paul Hill
The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees: October 13, 1960
David Mills
Film Review
The Bronx is Burning: The Complete Series
Ron Briley
Oral History
Mike Murphy: Equipment Manager, San Francisco Giants
George Gmelch
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