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Table of Contents

The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor

Willie Steele
pp. ix-xi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903307
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Diamond Quotes

p. xiii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903308
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Loved It: Ball Four

Paul Hensler
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903309
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Loathed It: Ball Four

William J. Ryczek
pp. 11-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903310
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Major League Baseball Seized Control of the Minor Leagues: What Happened, What's Happening Now, and What it Means for Players, Fans, Owners, and Cities

Mark Cryan
pp. 17-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903311
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Much Ado About Profanity: The 1898 Brush Resolution

Larry Gerlach
pp. 34-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903312
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The Sovereign's Orb: Baseball as Metaphor in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Robert Gorman
pp. 48-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903313
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"A Year Probably Never Before Equaled . . .": The Klein Chocolate Company Team and its Nine-Game Major League Run of 1919

Gerald Huesken Jr.
pp. 66-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903314
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In Memoriam: The California League, 1879–2020

Steven Treder
pp. 86-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903315
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The 1880 Natick Boarding House Nine

Woody Eckard
pp. 100-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903316
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A Legend Like No Other: Yankees Shortstop Turned CIA Operative

Anne R. Keene
pp. 112-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903317
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Baseball's Best Ever: A Half Century of Covering Hall of Famers by Ira Berkow (review)

Mark McGee
pp. 118-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903318
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Coming Home: My Amazin' Life with the New York by Cleon Jones (review)

R. Zachary Sanzone
pp. 120-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903319
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The Umpire is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self by Dale Scott (review)

Tim Wiles
pp. 122-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903320
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Classic Baseball: Timeless Tales, Immortal Moments by John Rosengren (review)

Charles DeMotte
pp. 124-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903321
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss (review)

Charlie Bevis
pp. 126-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903322
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Lefty & Tim: How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver Became Baseball's Best Battery by William C. Kashatus (review)

Mitchell Nathanson
pp. 128-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903323
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Get Up, Baby!: My Seven Decades with the St. Louis Cardinals by Mike Shannon (review)

Scott D. Peterson
pp. 131-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903324
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The Line Up: Ten Books that Changed Baseball by Paul Aron (review)

Jorge Iber
pp. 133-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903325
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Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great by Willie Horton (review)

Paul Hensler
pp. 135-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903326
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Intentional Balk: Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating by Daniel R. Levitt & Mark Armour (review)

Ed Edmonds
pp. 137-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903327
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Last Time Out; Big League Farewells of Baseball's Greats by John Nogoski (review)

Chad S. Wise
pp. 140-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903328
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Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher (review)

Jennifer J. Asenas, Kevin A. Johnson, Mary Hyepock
pp. 142-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903329
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Pinnacle on the Mound: Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball by Doug Wedge (review)

Andrew J. Mauldin
pp. 144-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903330
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Bat Kid by Inoue Kazuo (review)

Germeen Tanas
pp. 146-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903331
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Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession that Changed Baseball Forever by Dan Good (review)

Willie Steele
pp. 148-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a903332
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