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Foreword John N. McDaniel 1
Preface: Working the Count: Continuing Diversity in Baseball Studies Ronald E. Kates Warren Tormey 3
I Baseball in Scholarly and Spiritual Contexts
Baseball Studies: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? Peter Carino 9
Proselytizing Pastime: Appropriating Jesus at Coors Field Andrew Hazucha 21
"Blasphemous Youths" and Sunday Baseball: A Cincinnati Tale from 1885 Kevin Grace 29
II Baseball in Cultural and Literary Contexts
What's "Not Cricket" Ain't Necessarily Baseball Either: Class and Racial Dichotomies in the Literature of Cricket and Baseball Jeremy Larance 38
"Minds of Fleetful Thoughts": Rube Foster, Dave Malarcher, and the Intellectual Project of Negro League Baseball Daniel Anderson 50
Staging a Feminist Movement in Baseball: Rida Johnson Young's The Girl and the Pennant Travis Stern 64
Baseball at the D.C. Diamond: October 3, 1951-The Day the Earth Stood Still Steve Andrews 72
Re-Reading The Natural in The 21st Century Rebekah Billings 89
"An Offense Against Memory": The Buckner Moment in Don DeLillo's Game 6 Crosby Hunt 96
"What the Hell Did You Trade Jay Buhner For?" Baseball in Seinfeld Aaron W. Miller 102
Hard-Boiled Baseball: The National Game in the Fiction of Robert B. Parker Gary Land 109
Change of a Nation: Boxing, Baseball, and the Birth of a New American Hero as Depicted in Harry Stein's Hoopla Nicholas X. Bush 120
Putting the Ball Cap on James Joyce: Beer and Bars, and Echoes of Ulysses in Coover's Universal Baseball Association Warren Tormey 125
The Inevitable Last Pitch: Lit Fans Bid Rabbit Adieu Phil Oliver 141
III Fiction
Politics as Usual Tom Wells 151
A Wicked Curve Steven L. Walker 164
IV Baseball in Historical and Reflective Contexts
The Day the Part-Timers Were Champions: June 13, 1926, Muzzy Field, Bristol, Connecticut Douglas S. Malan 181
The Contributions of Tom Wilson: A Negro League Team Owner's Impact on the Nashville Community Harriet Hamilton 187
Pumpsie Green: The Last of the Firsts Thomas D. Veve 192
When Every Mudville Joined a League: Minor League Baseball's Postwar Boom, 1945-1955 Robert G. Barrier 197
How to Write a Great Baseball Story R Dean Johnson 202
Nothing's Wrong with Baseball: Overwrought Baseball Editorials and the Most Frequent Complaints About the Game Sarah D. Bunting 209
What Baseball Makes Carl Schinasi 216
About the Contributors 223
Index 227
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