Volume 32, Number 1, Fall 2023
Contents
The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor
Diamond Quotes
Triple Play: Personal Reviews, Op-ed Pieces, and Polemics from Outside the Purview of the Umpires
Loved It: Ball Four
Paul Hensler
Loathed It: Ball Four
William J. Ryczek
Major League Baseball Seized Control of the Minor Leagues: What Happened, What’s Happening Now, and What it Means for Players, Fans, Owners, and Cities
Mark Cryan
Articles
Much Ado About Profanity: The 1898 Brush Resolution
Larry Gerlach
The Sovereign’s Orb: Baseball as Metaphor in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Robert Gorman
“A Year Probably Never Before Equaled . . .”: The Klein Chocolate Company Team and its Nine-Game Major League Run of 1919
Gerald Huesken Jr.
In Memoriam: The California League, 1879–2020
Steven Treder
The 1880 Natick Boarding House Nine
Woody Eckard
A Legend Like No Other: Yankees Shortstop Turned CIA Operative
Anne R. Keene
Book Reviews
Baseball’s Best Ever: A Half Century of Covering Hall of Famers
Mark McGee
Coming Home: My Amazin’ Life with the New York
R. Zachary Sanzone
The Umpire is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self
Tim Wiles
Classic Baseball: Timeless Tales, Immortal Moments
Charles DeMotte
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
Charlie Bevis
Lefty & Tim: How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver Became Baseball’s Best Battery
Mitchell Nathanson
Get Up, Baby!: My Seven Decades with the St. Louis Cardinals
Scott D. Peterson
The Line Up: Ten Books that Changed Baseball
Jorge Iber
Willie Horton: 23: Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers’ First Black Great
Paul Hensler
Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating
Ed Edmonds
Last Time Out; Big League Farewells of Baseball’s Greats
Chad S. Wise
Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played
Jennifer J. Asenas, Kevin A. Johnson, and Mary Hyepock
Pinnacle on the Mound: Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball
Andrew J. Mauldin
Bat Kid
Germeen Tanas
Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession that Changed Baseball Forever
Willie Steele