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Volume 28, Nos. 1-2 (Fall-Spring 2019-2020)
"Baseball is..."
Contents The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor
Willie Steele
Diamond Quotes
Poetry The Echoes
David Eldridge
The Trophy Cage
Larry Lester
Articles A Handful of Interesting, Timely Topics
and The Polo Grounds is my Field of Dreams
Max D. Danish and Keith Danish
Bases Empty, No One is Out
Jeremy Shermak
Fenway Faithful: Or, All Baseball is Local
R.A.R. Edwards
How I Got Into Roy Halladay’s Pants: Or, The Often Mercurial and Now Melancholic Reality of Playing in the Blue Ridge Mountain Baseball League of Southwest Virginia
J. S. Moore
The Guy
Daniel T. Durbin
My Baseball Novel
Mitchell Nathanson
The Constants
Douglas Jordan
Summer Rules
Larry Foley
My Most Prized Baseball Possession
Daniel Linnenberg and Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg
Reflections on a Flawed Baseball Idol
Ken Reed
A Little Girl, A Great War, A Baseball Triumph
Ruth Hanford Morhard
You Don’t Have to Adopt the Faith to Appreciate the Cathedral
David A. Jepsen
A Bookmaker’s Son: A Tale of the 1946 World Series
Sol Gittleman
The Dreams of Batting Gloves
Bill Meissner
Positive Presage: Baseball’s Arrival Signaled Better Days Were Ahead
Greg Ford
Bless You, Jody Gerut
Michael Felber
The Rose Goes in the Front, Big Guy
Tim Wiles
Walter Mitty Meets Bert Blyleven: What Happens When a Middle-Aged Guy Attempts to Revive His High School Baseball Career
John Rosengren
Closing the Baseball Hall of Fame
Richard “Pete” Peterson
National Passed Time
Michael V. Miranda
Brooklyn, 2019: Who’s a Cyclone?
Thomas McDonald
Baseball is Truly International
James J. Donahue
Quarantining With(out) the Houston Astros: A Meditation on Meaning in the Mist of Memories
Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Racing to Find Home
Terumi Rafferty-Osaki
Reminiscences of an Old-Time Baseball Fan
Bob Cullen Sr.
Baseball Is What We Choose to Make It
Kate Melody Burmon and David L. Burmon
Where I First Learned to Love the Game
Tim Wendel
Baseball is a Teacher: Lessons Learned by a Canadian Baseball Fan
Craig Greenham
Musings of a Recovered Red Sox Fan
Dave Surdam
White, Black, and the Homestead Grays
Bruce Bobick
The Phoebe, Me, and the Giants
Howard J. De Nike
The Ashes
Mark Kingwell
Second Chances
Ethan D. Bryan
Willie’s Going to Philly
Daniel G. Payne
The Communal Possibilities of Baseball
Paul Ringel
Full Circle: A Baseball Player’s Lessons About Life and Justice
Louis Mauro
Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Please
Chris Arvidson
Waveland Avenue: The Game Outside of the Game
Levi Kaplan
ReviewsFrom the Stick to the Cove: My Six Decades with the San Francisco Giants David Bohmer
The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, The Chicago Cubs, & The Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 Mark McGee
Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Baseball Players R. Zachary Sanzone
The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and their Brush with Baseball History Mitchell Nathanson
Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues Steve Gietschier
Mr. Met: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became Like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers Doug Wedge
One Tough Out: Fighting Off Life’s Curveballs Paul Hensler
Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original Scott D. Peterson
The Milwaukee Brewers at 50: Celebrating a Half-Century of Brewers Baseball Lee Kluck
The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves Lindsay John Bell
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player Thomas Wolf
Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues Anna R. Newton
Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer J. Asenas
The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife Mark Jent
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between Andy McCue
Tony Oliva: The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Frank G. Houdek
Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star Rob Sheinkopf
Cleveland Rocked: The Personalities, Sluggers, and Magic of the 1995 Indians Chad S. Wise
