Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2023
Contents
The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor
Willie Steele
Diamond Quotes
Triple Play
Loved It:
The Boys of Summer
Karen E. Kubara
Loathed It:
The Boys of Summer
Gary Gershman
Articles
A Very Live Corpse: How a Military-Industrial Complex Saved Bay Area Baseball during World War I
Jim Leeke
Satchel Paige and the 1948 Pennant Race
Douglas Jordan
Art and the Psychology of Baseball (or Vice Versa)
Jerald (Jay) Thomas
The Negro Leagues Newly Incorporated into Major League Baseball: An Examination of Their Strength and an Evaluation of the Unification
William Wise
Putting Politics Aside: The Congressional Baseball Game
Dylan Garvin and Rick Burton
The Four
Cary Heinz
Reviews
Baseball’s Most Bizarre Plays: A Roster of the Odd, the Improbable and the Downright Confounding in Major League History
Paul Hensler
Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers’ Rights and American Empire
Mark McGee
Charlie Murphy: The Iconoclastic Showman behind the Chicago Cubs
James E. Overmyer
Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America
Paul Hensler
Pride of the Greyhounds: Ray Legenza and 64 Straight Wins by Connecticut’s Best High School Baseball Team
Jorge Iber
Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
Thomas Wolf
American Legion Baseball: A History, 1924–2020
Charlie Bevis
Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
Alan L. Griggs
Stumbling around the Bases: The American League’s Mismanagement in the Expansion Era
David M. Pegram
Swing and a Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me
Anna R. Newton
The Saga of Sudden Sam: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Sam McDowell
David Bohmer
Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It
R. Zachary Sanzone
Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War
Chad S. Wise
