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     Preface      Introduction      PART I: GENDER: FEMINISM AND MASCULINITY ON AND OFF THE DIAMONDA Cup of Coffee in the Show: My Seven Games in the Majors      Cuba Libre Versus Women’s Lib: A Comparison of the Feminine Side of Baseball in Cuba and in the United States      Defending Masculinity: Brawling and the Unwritten Rules of Major League Baseball      PART II: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE GAMEBases Loaded: Race, Reconstruction, and Baseball in Washington, DC (1865–1876)      “Between Memory and History”: Black Sportswriters and the (Re)construction of Negro League Baseball      Down in the Dugout: Why Baseball Is No Longer the National Pastime for Blacks      PART III: OTHER MINORITIES: BEYOND BASEBALL'S MELTINGWho Is a Jewish Baseball Player?      Constructing the Cuban Pipeline: Papa Joe Cambria Brings the Cubans to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, (1944–1945)      The Chinese Wall and Murakami, Too: The Baseball Establishment and Post-World War II Perceptions of the Asian Other      PART IV: BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND AUDIOVISUAL REPRODUCTIONImagining the Action: Audiovisual Baseball Game Reproductions in Richmond, Virginia (1895–1935)      Joe McCarthy and the Fourth Estate: A Window onto Baseball and Media Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century      Playing Catch Inverted: August Wilson's Fences and Other Departures from Baseball's Cultural Stereotypes      PART V: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLYankees Profits and Promise: The Purchase of Babe Ruth and the Building of Yankee Stadium      Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball      The Kansas City Royals’ Baseball Academy: Expanding the Science and Pedagogy of Baseball      The Cost of Competitiveness in Major League Baseball      The Elements of Major League Contraction      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     Preface      Introduction      PART I: GENDER: FEMINISM AND MASCULINITY ON AND OFF THE DIAMONDA Cup of Coffee in the Show: My Seven Games in the Majors      Cuba Libre Versus Women’s Lib: A Comparison of the Feminine Side of Baseball in Cuba and in the United States      Defending Masculinity: Brawling and the Unwritten Rules of Major League Baseball      PART II: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE GAMEBases Loaded: Race, Reconstruction, and Baseball in Washington, DC (1865–1876)      “Between Memory and History”: Black Sportswriters and the (Re)construction of Negro League Baseball      Down in the Dugout: Why Baseball Is No Longer the National Pastime for Blacks      PART III: OTHER MINORITIES: BEYOND BASEBALL'S MELTINGWho Is a Jewish Baseball Player?      Constructing the Cuban Pipeline: Papa Joe Cambria Brings the Cubans to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, (1944–1945)      The Chinese Wall and Murakami, Too: The Baseball Establishment and Post-World War II Perceptions of the Asian Other      PART IV: BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND AUDIOVISUAL REPRODUCTIONImagining the Action: Audiovisual Baseball Game Reproductions in Richmond, Virginia (1895–1935)      Joe McCarthy and the Fourth Estate: A Window onto Baseball and Media Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century      Playing Catch Inverted: August Wilson's Fences and Other Departures from Baseball's Cultural Stereotypes      PART V: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLYankees Profits and Promise: The Purchase of Babe Ruth and the Building of Yankee Stadium      Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball      The Kansas City Royals’ Baseball Academy: Expanding the Science and Pedagogy of Baseball      The Cost of Competitiveness in Major League Baseball      The Elements of Major League Contraction      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     Preface      Introduction      PART I: GENDER: FEMINISM AND MASCULINITY ON AND OFF THE DIAMONDA Cup of Coffee in the Show: My Seven Games in the Majors      Cuba Libre Versus Women’s Lib: A Comparison of the Feminine Side of Baseball in Cuba and in the United States      Defending Masculinity: Brawling and the Unwritten Rules of Major League Baseball      PART II: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE GAMEBases Loaded: Race, Reconstruction, and Baseball in Washington, DC (1865–1876)      “Between Memory and History”: Black Sportswriters and the (Re)construction of Negro League Baseball      Down in the Dugout: Why Baseball Is No Longer the National Pastime for Blacks      PART III: OTHER MINORITIES: BEYOND BASEBALL'S MELTINGWho Is a Jewish Baseball Player?      Constructing the Cuban Pipeline: Papa Joe Cambria Brings the Cubans to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, (1944–1945)      The Chinese Wall and Murakami, Too: The Baseball Establishment and Post-World War II Perceptions of the Asian Other      PART IV: BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND AUDIOVISUAL REPRODUCTIONImagining the Action: Audiovisual Baseball Game Reproductions in Richmond, Virginia (1895–1935)      Joe McCarthy and the Fourth Estate: A Window onto Baseball and Media Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century      Playing Catch Inverted: August Wilson's Fences and Other Departures from Baseball's Cultural Stereotypes      PART V: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLYankees Profits and Promise: The Purchase of Babe Ruth and the Building of Yankee Stadium      Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball      The Kansas City Royals’ Baseball Academy: Expanding the Science and Pedagogy of Baseball      The Cost of Competitiveness in Major League Baseball      The Elements of Major League Contraction      Index