Volume 25, Numbers 1 & 2 (Fall-Spring, 2016-2017)
ContentsArticles Painting Baseball
Joseph Stanton
Old Timers’ Games: A Transformation from Player Benefits Events to Clubs’ Historical Celebrations and the Rise of a Baseball Goodwill Communion
Keith Spalding Robbins
“What’s Universal and Unique?” Or How Can a Culturally Circumscribed Museum Exhibition Provide Inclusive Meaning?
William Harris Ressler and Noa Ran-Ressler
The Pacific Coast League Scandal of 1919: “Prince Hal” Chase Had Nothing on Babe Borton
Al Figone
Four Guys from Birmingham: A Paradigm for Understanding the White Southern Response to Integration
John N. Ingham
W. P. Kinsella’s
Butterfly Winter: Towards Gothic Baseball Fiction
Chifen Lu
Turns at Bat: Baseball and the United States in Dominican Literature and Print Culture
P. Eric Henager
Kenneth Goldsmith’s
Sports and Conceptual Baseball Writing
Justin D. Edwards
Triple Play: Personal Reviews, Op-ed Pieces, and Polemics from Outside the Purview of the Umpires My Eighty-Two Year Love Affair with Fenway Park: From Teddy Ballgame to Mookie Betts
Larry Ruttman
Book ReviewsNational Pastime: U.S. History Through Baseball David Lucander
Kansas Baseball, 1858–1941 Charlie Bevis
A History of Badger Baseball: The Rise and Fall of America’s Pastime at the University of Wisconsin Lee Lowenfish
Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918 Rob Edelman
Urban Shocker: Baseball’s Silent Hero Ed Edmonds
Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character Rob Edelman
Black Ball and the Boardwalk: The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, 1916–1929 Rob Edelman
The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance Ron Kates
Ed Bolden and Black Baseball in Philadelphia Michael Haupert
Lefty O’Doul: Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador C. Paul Rogers III
Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son Robert F. Garratt
Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger C. Paul Rogers III
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic Rob Edelman
The All-American Girls After the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives Amy Essington
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles Andy McCue
The New Boys of Summer: Baseball’s Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties Frank C. Houdek
The 1967 American League Pennant: Four Teams, Six Weeks, One Winner Paul Hensler
The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age Douglas K. Lehman
Fate’s Take-Out Slide: A Baseball Scout Recalls Can’t-Miss Prospects Who Did Rob Edelman
Baseball Meets the Law: A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes, and Other Legal Events Robert Bellamy
The Love of Baseball: Essays by Lifelong Fans William Harris Ressler
Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey Ron Briley
Poetry Imploding the Memories
Kevin Hogg