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 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
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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