NINE 21:2

NINE 21:2

Edited by Trey Strecker

Table Of Contents

Contents

Diamond Quotes

Articles
Earl Mann Beats the Klan: Jackie Robinson and the First Integrated Games in Atlanta
Kenneth R. Fenster

Rooting for the Clothes: The Materialization of Memory in Baseball's Throwback Uniforms
Stephen Andon

Rhetorical Constructions of Anger Management, Emotions, and Public Argument in Baseball Culture: The Case of Carlos Zambrano
Kevin A. Johnson and Joseph W. Anderson

Baseball Players, Organizational Communication, and Cultural Diversity: Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Minor-League Clubhouses
William Harris Ressler

"Patriotic Industry": Baseball's Reluctant Sacrifice in World War I
Paul Hensler

Triple Play
Leagues of Their Own Design
David Nemec

The Fireman
Robert A. Moss

Bill Kulik: The Gringo Malo Speaks the Language of the Game
Franklin Otto

Baseball's Other Expansion Team of 1962: Fifty Years of Frustration in the National League Ends for Houston
Ron Briley

Book Reviews
A People's History of Baseball
Daniel A. Nathan

Legal Decisions That Shaped Modern Baseball
Richard C. Crepeau

Packaging Baseball: How Marketing Embellishes the Cultural Experience
Roberta Newman

Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
Adi Angel

Jimmy Collins: A Baseball Biography
Ron Kates

Arlie Latham: A Baseball Biography of the Freshest Man on Earth
Charlie Bevis

The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball: The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy
Steve Treder

Deacon Bill McKechnie: A Baseball Biography
Cliff Hight

Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes
David Surdam

Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball—and America
Rob Edelman

The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America: The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers
Robert A. Moss

Ebbets Field: Essays and Memories of Brooklyn's Historic Ballpark, 1913–1960
Steven P. Gietschier

"If You Were Only White": The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Jim Overmyer

The Might Have Been: A Novel
Adi Angel

Drawing Card: A Baseball Novel
Tim Morris

The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912–1916
John Harney

Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life
William Harris Ressler

Film Review
Moneyball and Trouble with the Curve
Ron Briley

Contributors