ISSN 1188-9330
eISSN 1534-1844
NINE studies all historical aspects of baseball, centering on the societal and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world it is played. This journal features articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, oral history, and short fiction pieces.
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
Bill Kirwin
The University of Calgary in Edmonton
Trey Strecker
Louisiana State University
Willie Steele
Lipscomb University
Jean Hastings Ardell, Corona Del Mar, California
Robert K. Barney, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Robert Bellamy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
James E. Brunson III, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Adrian Burgos Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Peter Carino, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
Richard C. Crepeau, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Gerald Early, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Robert K. Fitts, Bronx, New York
Larry Gerlach, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Steven P. Gietschier, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri
George Gmelch, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Union College, Schenectady, New York
Chris Lamb, Indiana University– Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
David Mills, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Mitchell Nathanson, Villanova University School of Law
Roberta Newman, New York University, New York City, New York
James Odenkirk, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Richard J. Puerzer, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Joel Nathan Rosen, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
"Baseball’s Other Expansion Team of 1962: Fifty Years of Frustration in the National League Ends for Houston" (Vol. 21 No. 2, 2013)
"Rooting for the Clothes: The Materialization of Memory in Baseball’s Throwback Uniforms" (Vol. 21 No. 2, 2013)"Earl Mann Beats the Klan: Jackie Robinson and the First Integrated Games in Atlanta" (Vol. 21 No. 2, 2013)
"Barrio, Bulldozers, and Baseball: The Destruction of Chavez Ravine" (Vol. 21 No. 1, 2012)
"Baseball Players, Organizational Communication, and Cultural Diversity: Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Minor-League Clubhouses" (Vol. 21 No. 2, 2013)
This list of peer-reviewed materials features articles on many topics spanning Globalization, Genocide, Religion, Diaspora Communities, and other aspects on the topic of Migration.
Reading List: Sports-Related Controversies, Social Issues, and ScandalsThis sprawling list includes peer-reviewed articles on subjects as diverse as the fields of play they revolve around, including Violence in Sports, Gambling & Game Fixing, Drugs & Banned Substances, Mascots & Offensive Imagery, and other controversies.
Reading List: PandemicThis developing list arose from the COVID-19 pandemic and includes many peer-reviewed articles on topics like Fictional Pandemics, Politics, Cultural Impacts, The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, and other related areas of study.
Reading List: Latin American StudiesArticles on a variety of topics related to the field of Latin American Studies.
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