Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2024
Contents
The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor
Willie Steele
Diamond Quotes
Poetry
Armand LaMantagne’s
Babe Ruth and
Ted Williams
Joseph Stanton
Stanley Bleifield’s
Johnny Podres Pitching to Roy Campenella
Joseph Stanton
Triple Play
Personal Reviews, Op-ed Pieces, and Polemics from Outside the Purview of the Umpires
Love It:
Shoeless Joe
Willie Steele
Leave It:
Shoeless Joe
Clayton Trutor
The Boys of Winter
Roberto González Echevarría
Jackie Robinson Would Have Hated Jackie Robinson Day
Ron Rapoport
Articles
The 1939 Sanford Lookouts: A Glorious Season to Remember
Sam Zygner
¡Vamos Chicas!: Mexican American Women’s Baseball Leagues of the Pre-WWII Midwest
Emalee Nelson
The Extraordinary Remarkable Uneventful Life of a Baseball and the Legend of Johnny Lund
Rhett Grametbauer
Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson: The Misunderstood Relationship Between These Activist Athletes
Peter Dreier
“Just” Calling Balls and Strikes: Umpires and Judges
Mark L. Pelesh
Reviews
The Mustache Gang Battles the Big Red Machine: The 1972 World Series
David M. Pegram
Field of Magic, Baseball’s Superstitions, Curses, and Taboos
Lisa Alexander
Backyards to Ballparks: More Personal Baseball Stories from the Stand and Beyond
Anna Adams and Alisa Chirkova-Holland
Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Claudia Caplan Wolff
Baseball’s Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
Mitchell Nathanson
Baseball’s Wildest Season: Three Leagues, Thirty-Four Teams and the Chaos of 1884
Scott D. Peterson
Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of ‘82
Steve Gietschier
Fans Called Him “Turkey,” I Called Him Dad: A Daughter Remembers Baseball Hall of Famer Norman Thomas Stearnes
J.L. Steele
Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball
Andy McCue
Bush League Blues
Chad S. Wise
Spitter: Baseball’s Notorious Gaylord Perry
Mark Armour
Baseball at the Abyss: The Scandals of 1926, Babe Ruth, and the Unlikely Savior Who Rescued a Tarnished Game
David Bohmer
