NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture

NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture

Edited by Willie Steele and David Pegram

ISSN 1188-9330

eISSN 1534-1844

About

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.

Table Of Contents

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

Submissions & Book Reviews


NINE seeks to promote the study of all historical aspects of baseball and centers on the cultural implications of the game wherever in the world baseball is played. The journal reflects an eclectic approach and does not foster a particular ideological bias.
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17h edition, and should contain endnotes rather than footnotes. If an article prepared in another style is accepted, the author is fully responsible for changing the style to
CMS . Manuscripts prepared in American Psychological Association (APA) style are not acceptable. Simultaneous submissions are not accepted. Authors will be asked to sign a declaration that the submitted work is not being considered for publication elsewhere. No major revisions will be allowed after acceptance. The editor will attempt to have all manuscripts reviewed by two umpires and will respond to the authors within three months of receiving the manuscript. Articles should be between 2,000 and 8,000 words in length and saved as a Microsoft Word or RTF file. All figures and tables must be submitted in camera-ready format and will be printed as is. Please include a short (no more than three sentences) personal bio.

Address submissions to David Pegram at david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu
.
Book reviews are by invitation only.

 

Editorial Board

Founding Editor

Bill Kirwin
The University of Calgary in Edmonton


Editors

Trey Strecker
Louisiana State University

Willie Steele
Lipscomb University


Editorial Board

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

Announcements

Sponsoring Society

Resources

Reading List: Migration

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 Scandals

This 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: Pandemic

This 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 Studies

Articles on a variety of topics related to the field of Latin American Studies.

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