| Contents |
A distinct sense of belonging / E. Michael Brady -- Home base : a survey of backyard baseball diamonds / Theresa M. Danna -- On Fenway, faith, and fandom : a Red Sox fan reflects / Derek Catsam -- Baseball memorabilia / Frank Hoffmann -- From Jackie to Elvis, from Selma to St. Petersburg : the desegregation of spring training / Brian Carroll -- Creating home with the ball field : the dynamics of baseball and civic inclusivity for Germans, Irishmen, and Blacks during the late nineteenth century / Kevin J. Grzymala -- The Internet and the popularization of the Negro leagues / Alar Lipping -- Baseball and Blacks : a loss of affinity, a loss of community / David C. Ogden -- The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League : accomplishing great things in a dangerous world / Carol J. Pierman -- Globalization of baseball in popular culture / Martin Manning -- Here's the pitch : baseball and advertising / Roberta Newman -- From John McGraw to Joe Torre : industrial management styles applied throughout the history of major league baseball / Richard J. Puerzer -- The Hall of Fame and the American mythology / George Grella -- Politics, patriotism, and baseball on-screen / Rob Edelman -- Writing their way home : American writers and baseball / Connie Ann Kirk -- Baseball as a second language : the impenetrability of our national pastime / Seth Whidden -- Baseball poetry : society's overlooked and underestimated literary art form / Dan Zamudio -- Eiron men, "You know me, Alazons," and pixies : baseball humor as American humor / Thomas L. Altherr -- Baseball labor relations : is it safe to go back to the ball park? / Karen Shallcross Koziara -- God and the diamond : the "born-again" baseball autobiography / Gary Land -- The winter meetings, the king of baseball, and the conscience of the game / Larry Moffi -- Control problems : the limitations of baseball as metaphor / William W. Wright -- Boys of summer, suicides of winter : an introduction to baseball suicides / Loren Coleman. |
