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Table of Contents

Whatever Happened to the Marvelous Importance of the Unimportant?: A Plea for Putting Today's Baseball and All-Sports Mania in Proper Perspective

Lee Lowenfish
pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0043
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"A Mirthful Spectacle": Race, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Base Ball, 1874-1888

James E. Brunson III
pp. 13-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0047
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A Case of Cultural Forgetting: Black Newspapers' Presentation of Black Baseball in 1932

Thomas Aiello
pp. 31-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0051
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Looking Bad on Paper, Worse on Film: Portrayals of Sports Journalists in Three Classic Baseball Films

John Carvalho, Nicholas Kirby
pp. 45-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0029
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Rings Born of Impulse: Gift-Exchange Economies in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant

Ronald Kates
pp. 58-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0033
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Driven: Branding Derek Jeter, Redefining Race

Roberta Newman
pp. 70-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0041
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I'm the King of the World?: Barry Bonds and the "Race" for the Record

Lisa Doris Alexander
pp. 80-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0037
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Ben Harjo's All-Indian Baseball Club

Royse Parr
pp. 90-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0045
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Barnstorming, Baseball, and Bluegrass Music

David K. Jackson
pp. 103-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0049
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Whither or Whether the Stolen Base?

Paul Bursik, Kevin Quinn
pp. 122-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0053
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The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969, and: The Yankees in the Early 1960s (review)

Mark Armour
pp. 136-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0031
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The New York Mets: Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext (review)

David Shiner
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0035
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Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond (review)

Roberta Newman
pp. 141-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0040
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Anatomy of Baseball (review)

Scott Peterson
pp. 143-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0044
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The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949 (review)

William E. Akin
pp. 145-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0048
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August "Garry" Herrmann: A Baseball Biography (review)

Steve Steinberg
pp. 148-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0052
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"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game (review)

Christopher M. Keshock
pp. 150-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0030
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Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography (review)

Harry Jebsen Jr.
pp. 152-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0034
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"Swish" Nicholson: A Biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger (review)

James E. Martin
pp. 154-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0038
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Working at the Ballpark: The Fascinating Lives of Baseball People, from Peanut Vendors and Broadcasters to Players and Managers (review)

Harold V. Higham
pp. 155-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0042
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The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit (review)

John Paul Hill
pp. 157-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0046
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The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees: October 13, 1960 (review)

David Mills
pp. 160-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0050
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Mike Murphy: Equipment Manager, San Francisco Giants

George Gmelch
pp. 166-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0032
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Diamond Quotes

pp. ix-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0039
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The Bronx is Burning: The Complete Series (review)

Ron Briley
pp. 163-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0054
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Contributors

pp. 174-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.0.0036
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