Touching Home: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America

2026 Society for American Baseball Research Seymour Medal finalist

Baseball’s relationship to American ideals has long been an object of study across disciplines. In Touching Home, Mary Craig contributes to this ongoing study by relating issues of class, race, and gender to America’s theoretical tradition of liberalism and republicanism established during the nation’s founding era. Specifically, Touching Home traces theories of individualism and civic virtue from the founding era through b...