Baseball in America and America in Baseball

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Preface vii Introduction 1 Richard Crepeau “Our Players Are Mostly Farmers”: Baseball in Rural California, 1850 to 1890 8 David Vaught “Invisible Baseball”: Japanese Americans and Their Game in the 1930s 32 Samuel O. Regalado Chasing Shadows: The Baltimore Black Sox and the Perils of History 52 Daniel A. Nathan The Pro>ts of Major League Baseball, 1900 to 1956 88 Steven A. Riess Mapping an Empire of Baseball: American Visions of National Pastimes and Global In?uence, 1919 to 1941 143 Mark Dyreson “Matters Involving Honor”: Region, Race, and Rank in the Violent Life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb 189 Benjamin G. Rader About the Contributors 223 CONTENTS ...