William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      viiiPreface     Introduction     PART 1. TIMEBENDS: BASEBALL AS HISTORYKeynote Address: Baseball Lives in the Depression Era     Country Baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (1867–1921)     Pitcher at Twilight: Bill Monbouquette and the American Dream     The Segregation of Professional Baseball in Kansas (1895–1899)     PART 2. THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLEngineering Baseball: Branch Rickey’s Innovative Approach to Baseball Management    The Pitch Men: Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr.     Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations     Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since 1985     PART 3. RACE: SOUL OF THE GAMEIn the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers     Jim Crows of a Feather: A Comparison of the Segregation and Desegregation Eras in Professional Baseball and Football     The Social Significance of Sport: Implications for Race and Baseball     Blacks in Baseball: Up from Neglect to Center Stage     PART 4. BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND CINEMABaseball and Ernest Hemingway     The Black Press and the Integration of Baseball: When to Stop the Cheering     Portrayals of Racial Minorities in Baseball Films     When New York Was the Capital of Baseball: Remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune    Types and Archetypes: The Characters of Baseball     The Changing Language of Baseball Writers in Historical Context (1900–2001)    PART 5. BASEBALL CULTURE: AGE, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGIONOn Being Gay in Major League Baseball     When Baseball Players Wore Skirts: The Promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League     Baseball Heroes and Femme Fatales     Baseball and Its Appeal to Older Americans     Believing in Baseball: The Religious Power of Our National Pastime     Theology and Celebrity: How Celebrity Affects the Practice of Faith in Baseball    Index

William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      viiiPreface     Introduction     PART 1. TIMEBENDS: BASEBALL AS HISTORYKeynote Address: Baseball Lives in the Depression Era     Country Baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (1867–1921)     Pitcher at Twilight: Bill Monbouquette and the American Dream     The Segregation of Professional Baseball in Kansas (1895–1899)     PART 2. THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLEngineering Baseball: Branch Rickey’s Innovative Approach to Baseball Management    The Pitch Men: Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr.     Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations     Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since 1985     PART 3. RACE: SOUL OF THE GAMEIn the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers     Jim Crows of a Feather: A Comparison of the Segregation and Desegregation Eras in Professional Baseball and Football     The Social Significance of Sport: Implications for Race and Baseball     Blacks in Baseball: Up from Neglect to Center Stage     PART 4. BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND CINEMABaseball and Ernest Hemingway     The Black Press and the Integration of Baseball: When to Stop the Cheering     Portrayals of Racial Minorities in Baseball Films     When New York Was the Capital of Baseball: Remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune    Types and Archetypes: The Characters of Baseball     The Changing Language of Baseball Writers in Historical Context (1900–2001)    PART 5. BASEBALL CULTURE: AGE, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGIONOn Being Gay in Major League Baseball     When Baseball Players Wore Skirts: The Promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League     Baseball Heroes and Femme Fatales     Baseball and Its Appeal to Older Americans     Believing in Baseball: The Religious Power of Our National Pastime     Theology and Celebrity: How Celebrity Affects the Practice of Faith in Baseball    Index

William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      viiiPreface     Introduction     PART 1. TIMEBENDS: BASEBALL AS HISTORYKeynote Address: Baseball Lives in the Depression Era     Country Baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (1867–1921)     Pitcher at Twilight: Bill Monbouquette and the American Dream     The Segregation of Professional Baseball in Kansas (1895–1899)     PART 2. THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLEngineering Baseball: Branch Rickey’s Innovative Approach to Baseball Management    The Pitch Men: Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr.     Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations     Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since 1985     PART 3. RACE: SOUL OF THE GAMEIn the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers     Jim Crows of a Feather: A Comparison of the Segregation and Desegregation Eras in Professional Baseball and Football     The Social Significance of Sport: Implications for Race and Baseball     Blacks in Baseball: Up from Neglect to Center Stage     PART 4. BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND CINEMABaseball and Ernest Hemingway     The Black Press and the Integration of Baseball: When to Stop the Cheering     Portrayals of Racial Minorities in Baseball Films     When New York Was the Capital of Baseball: Remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune    Types and Archetypes: The Characters of Baseball     The Changing Language of Baseball Writers in Historical Context (1900–2001)    PART 5. BASEBALL CULTURE: AGE, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGIONOn Being Gay in Major League Baseball     When Baseball Players Wore Skirts: The Promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League     Baseball Heroes and Femme Fatales     Baseball and Its Appeal to Older Americans     Believing in Baseball: The Religious Power of Our National Pastime     Theology and Celebrity: How Celebrity Affects the Practice of Faith in Baseball    Index