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List of illustrations | p. viii |
List of contributors | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Baseball: a chronology | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The rules of baseball | p. 9 |
Baseball in literature, baseball as literature | p. 21 |
Babe Ruth, sabermetrics, and baseball's politics of greatness | p. 33 |
Interchapter: Babe Ruth | p. 45 |
Not the major leagues: Japanese and Mexican Americans and the national pastime | p. 49 |
Baseball and the color line: from the Negro Leagues to the major leagues | p. 61 |
Interchapter: Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood | p. 76 |
Baseball and war | p. 81 |
Baseball and the American city | p. 95 |
Interchapter: Walter O'Malley | p. 107 |
Baseball at the movies | p. 111 |
The baseball fan | p. 125 |
Baseball and material culture | p. 152 |
Interchapter: the Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card | p. 152 |
Global baseball: Japan and East Asia | p. 155 |
Interchapter: Roberto Clemente and Ichiro | p. 168 |
Global baseball: Latin America | p. 171 |
Cheating in baseball | p. 185 |
Interchapter: Pete Rose | p. 197 |
Baseball's economic development | p. 201 |
Interchapter: Andy Messersmith, Charlie Finley, and George Steinbrenner | p. 216 |
Baseball and mass media | p. 221 |
A guide to further reading | p. 241 |
Index | p. 245 |
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