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"Charlie Finley Has Soured My Stomach for Baseball": Charles O. Finley versus His Players

Roger D. Launius, G. Michael Green
pp. 1-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0010
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The Gordon Base Ball Club of Chicago and the Black Sporting Fraternity, 1884–1886

James E. Brunson
pp. 19-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0031
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Louis "Count Castro": The Story of a Forgotten Latino Major Leaguer

Gilberto Garcia
pp. 35-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0002
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The Rise of Baseball's Racial Quota System in the 1950s

Lee Lowenfish
pp. 52-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0015
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The Impact of Curt Flood's Minor League Baseball Experiences on His Lawsuit against Bowie Kuhn

Edmund P. Edmonds
pp. 62-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0024
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A History of South African Baseball

Josh Chetwynd
pp. 73-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0009
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The Tragedy of the Ehime Maru and the Role of Baseball in the Healing Process

Frank R. Ardolino
pp. 80-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0016
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World War I and Free Agency: The Fateful 1918 Battle for Jack Quinn

Steve Steinberg
pp. 84-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0018
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John "Jack Quinn" Picus: Not Polish, Not Welsh, and Not Born in America at All

E. Michael D. Scott
pp. 93-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0008
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Twice Perfect: Jean Faut of the South Bend Blue Sox

Bob Gorman
pp. 107-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0012
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Still Perfect after Fifty Years

Richard A. Zitrin
pp. 117-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0006
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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World (review)

Roberta Newman
pp. 119-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0030
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (review)

Steve Treder
pp. 121-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0001
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Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball-and America (review)

Lee Lowenfish
pp. 123-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0020
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The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig (review)

David Shiner
pp. 126-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0013
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Baseball and the Media: How Fans Lose in Today's Coverage of the Game (review)

Robert V. Bellamy
pp. 128-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0021
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Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball (review)

William E. Akin
pp. 130-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0011
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West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865–2000 (review)

John Paul Hill
pp. 132-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0027
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Dreaming Baseball (review)

Peter Carino
pp. 134-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0004
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Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams (review)

Bill Suphan
pp. 137-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0023
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Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me (review)

Ron Kates
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0005
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Stars, Stripes, and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film (review)

Ron Briley
pp. 141-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0026
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Cap Anson 1: When Captaining a Team Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years, and: Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly, U.S. Team Sport's First Media Sensation and Baseball's Original Casey at the Bat, and: Cap Anson 3: Muggsy McGraw and the Tricksters: Baseball's Fun Age of Rule Bending, and: Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Cap Anson of Chicago (review)

David L. Fleitz
pp. 143-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0029
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend (review)

Andy McCue
pp. 146-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0025
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Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story (review)

David A. Goss
pp. 147-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0017
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Red Faber: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Spitball Pitcher (review)

Harry Jebsen
pp. 149-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0000
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Gabby Hartnett: The Life and Times of the Cubs' Greatest Catcher (review)

David A. Goss
pp. 150-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0022
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Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs (review)

Royse Parr
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0003
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The St. Louis Baseball Reader (review)

Bill Swanson
p. 154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0028
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Bill Kirwin: Pioneering a Community of Baseball Scholars

George Gmelch
pp. 155-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0007
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Diamond Quotes

pp. ix-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0019
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Contributors

pp. 166-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2008.0014
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