| Acknowledgments | ||
| Preface | 1 | |
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Keynote Address: Baseball Lives in the Depression Era | 15 | |
| Country Baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1867-1921 | 29 | |
| Pitcher at Twilight: Bill Monbouquette and the American Dream | 40 | |
| The Segregation of Professional Baseball in Kansas, 1895-1899: A Case Study in the Rise of Jim Crow During the Gilded Age | 61 | |
| Engineering Baseball: Branch Rickey's Innovative Approach to Baseball Management | 81 | |
| The Pitch Men: Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr. | 95 | |
| Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations | 110 | |
| Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since 1985 | 122 | |
| In the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers | 137 | |
| Jim Crows of a Feather: A Comparison of the Segregation and Desegregation Eras in Professional Baseball and Football | 154 | |
| The Social Significance of Sport: Implications for Race and Baseball | 169 | |
| Blacks in Baseball: Up from Neglect to Center Stage | 182 | |
| Baseball and Ernest Hemingway | 199 | |
| The Black Press and the Integration of Baseball: When to Stop the Cheering | 216 | |
| Portrayals of Racial Minorities in Baseball Films | 232 | |
| When New York Was the Capital of Baseball: Remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune | 244 | |
| Types and Archetypes: The Characters of Baseball | 257 | |
| The Changing Language of Baseball Writers in Historical Context, 1900-2001 | 269 | |
| On Being Gay in Major League Baseball | 287 | |
| When Baseball Players Wore Skirts: The Promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | 300 | |
| Baseball Heroes and Femme Fatales | 315 | |
| Baseball and Its Appeal to Older Americans | 330 | |
| Believing in Baseball: The Religious Power of Our National Pastime | 339 | |
| Theology and Celebrity: How Celebrity Affects the Practice of Faith in Baseball | 357 | |
| Index | 365 |
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