Thomas L. Altherr is a professor of history at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction     PART 1: BASEBALL AS A BUSINESSAn Overlooked Implication of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption     From Kiner to Bunning, from Cannon to Miller, from “Players’ Group” to Players’ Union     Baseball’s Changing Salary Structure     What Constitutes a Good Baseball Town?: An Analysis of One- and Two-Team Cities     PART 2: BASEBALL AND COMMUNICATIONHired Voices: The Contract Between the Fourth Estate and Baseball     The Myth of the “Tools of Ignorance”: Why Catchers Make the Best Communicators     Baseball and Modern Leadership Theory     PART 3: BASEBALL AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC PERSPECTIVESLazzeri to DiMaggio to Giamatti: Italian-Americans in Baseball     Baseball and the Next Generation of Americans     Baseball and Academic Outcomes: A Capstone Course     Searching for Sockalexis: Exploring the Myth at the Core of Cleveland’s “Indian” Image     PART 4: BASEBALL AND GENDER MATTERSEros at the Bat: American Baseball and Sexuality in Historical Context     Baseball and the Women’s Question: Participation,Gender Stereotypes, and the Consumption Ethic     Women in the Stands: Feminist Learning Theories and the Appeal of Baseball     Scorecards, Scrapbooks, and Stats: Girls, Women, and the Game of Baseball     Part 5: BASEBALL AND IMAGESThe Kingdom of Baseball in America: A Chronicle of an American Theology     The Melancholy of Baseball     Spalding or Spink: Who Wrote the First Standard History of Baseball?     PART 6: THE “OTHER” LEAGUES OF BASEBALLSemi-Pro Baseball: Oral Histories from the Depression through World War II     The Independent Carolina League 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws     Index

Thomas L. Altherr is a professor of history at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction     PART 1: BASEBALL AS A BUSINESSAn Overlooked Implication of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption     From Kiner to Bunning, from Cannon to Miller, from “Players’ Group” to Players’ Union     Baseball’s Changing Salary Structure     What Constitutes a Good Baseball Town?: An Analysis of One- and Two-Team Cities     PART 2: BASEBALL AND COMMUNICATIONHired Voices: The Contract Between the Fourth Estate and Baseball     The Myth of the “Tools of Ignorance”: Why Catchers Make the Best Communicators     Baseball and Modern Leadership Theory     PART 3: BASEBALL AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC PERSPECTIVESLazzeri to DiMaggio to Giamatti: Italian-Americans in Baseball     Baseball and the Next Generation of Americans     Baseball and Academic Outcomes: A Capstone Course     Searching for Sockalexis: Exploring the Myth at the Core of Cleveland’s “Indian” Image     PART 4: BASEBALL AND GENDER MATTERSEros at the Bat: American Baseball and Sexuality in Historical Context     Baseball and the Women’s Question: Participation,Gender Stereotypes, and the Consumption Ethic     Women in the Stands: Feminist Learning Theories and the Appeal of Baseball     Scorecards, Scrapbooks, and Stats: Girls, Women, and the Game of Baseball     Part 5: BASEBALL AND IMAGESThe Kingdom of Baseball in America: A Chronicle of an American Theology     The Melancholy of Baseball     Spalding or Spink: Who Wrote the First Standard History of Baseball?     PART 6: THE “OTHER” LEAGUES OF BASEBALLSemi-Pro Baseball: Oral Histories from the Depression through World War II     The Independent Carolina League 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws     Index

Thomas L. Altherr is a professor of history at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction     PART 1: BASEBALL AS A BUSINESSAn Overlooked Implication of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption     From Kiner to Bunning, from Cannon to Miller, from “Players’ Group” to Players’ Union     Baseball’s Changing Salary Structure     What Constitutes a Good Baseball Town?: An Analysis of One- and Two-Team Cities     PART 2: BASEBALL AND COMMUNICATIONHired Voices: The Contract Between the Fourth Estate and Baseball     The Myth of the “Tools of Ignorance”: Why Catchers Make the Best Communicators     Baseball and Modern Leadership Theory     PART 3: BASEBALL AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC PERSPECTIVESLazzeri to DiMaggio to Giamatti: Italian-Americans in Baseball     Baseball and the Next Generation of Americans     Baseball and Academic Outcomes: A Capstone Course     Searching for Sockalexis: Exploring the Myth at the Core of Cleveland’s “Indian” Image     PART 4: BASEBALL AND GENDER MATTERSEros at the Bat: American Baseball and Sexuality in Historical Context     Baseball and the Women’s Question: Participation,Gender Stereotypes, and the Consumption Ethic     Women in the Stands: Feminist Learning Theories and the Appeal of Baseball     Scorecards, Scrapbooks, and Stats: Girls, Women, and the Game of Baseball     Part 5: BASEBALL AND IMAGESThe Kingdom of Baseball in America: A Chronicle of an American Theology     The Melancholy of Baseball     Spalding or Spink: Who Wrote the First Standard History of Baseball?     PART 6: THE “OTHER” LEAGUES OF BASEBALLSemi-Pro Baseball: Oral Histories from the Depression through World War II     The Independent Carolina League 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws     Index