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.
VVolume 33, no. 1 (Fall 2024)
The Cheap Seats: A Note From the Editors
David M. Pegram and Willie Steele
Diamond Quotes
Poetry
Peoria Chiefs
Joshua Finnell
Somewhere in This Town
Rick Burton
Douglas Tilden’s The Baseball Player
Joseph Stanton
Casey Revisited: A Contrarian Look at Baseball’s Most Famous Fictional Slugger
David Krell
Who’s Your Team
Baseball: What You Do for Your Family
Sandy Carlson
'90 Upper Deck #38: Portrait of Angel in Repose
’90 Donruss #474: Escaping Curses
’90 Topps #757: Top Prospect
Andrew Jacques
Triple Play
Personal Reviews, Op-ed Pieces, and Polemics from Outside the Purview of the Umpires
Love It: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Rich Rogers
Leave It: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Seamus Kearney
Brooklyn Dodger
Bruce Bobick
48 Hours with Pat Jordan
Jay Thomas
Articles
John C. “Jack” Hendricks: Major League Baseball’s Forgotten Lawyer-Manager
Robert M. Jarvis
Dawn of the Long Night: A History of the Color Barrier in Organized Baseball
Sam Sundermeyer
Kid Gloves for Babe Ruth: The Golden Age of Sportswriting
Matt Sieger
Who was Our Jackie Robinson?: Suffolk County’s Moment of Baseball Integration
Fabio Montella
A Club Fit to Represent This City: The Origins of the Chicago White Stockings
Michael Haupert
Book Reviews
Baseball in Huntsville
Doug Wedge
Black Stats Matter: Integrating Negro League Numbers into Major League Records
William Wise
Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years
Ed Edmonds
Long Way Home
Cathy Leogrande
Sons of Baseball: Growing Up with a Major League Dad
Mark McGee
Baseball and Cultural Heritage
Fabio Montella
One Season in Rocket City: How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama
Richard Black
62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness
Rachel Franklin
The Wingmen: The Unlike, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
Anne Keene
Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates
David M. Pegram
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
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.
