In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Cheap Seats: A Note from the Editor

Willie Steele
pp. ix-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914837
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Diamond Quotes

pp. xi-xii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914838
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Poetry

Armand LaMontagne’s: Babe Ruth and Ted Williams

Joseph Stanton
pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914839
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Stanley Bleifeld’s Johnny Podres Pitching to Roy Campanella

Joseph Stanton
pp. 3-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914840
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Triple Play

Personal Reviews, Op-ed Pieces, and Polemics
from Outside the Purview of the Umpires

Love It: Shoeless Joe

Willie Steele
pp. 5-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914841
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Leave It: Shoeless Joe

Clayton Trutor
pp. 13-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914842
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The Boys of Winter

Roberto González Echevarría
pp. 19-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a915294
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Jackie Robinson Would Have Hated Jackie Robinson Day

Ron Rapoport
pp. 35-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914844
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Articles

The 1939 Sanford Lookouts: A Glorious Season to Remember

Sam Zygner
pp. 46-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914845
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¡Vamos Chicas!: Mexican American Women’s Baseball Leagues of the Pre-WWII Midwest

Emalee Nelson
pp. 58-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914846
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The Extraordinary, Remarkable, Uneventful Life of a Baseball and the Legend of Johnny Lund

Rhett Grametbauer
pp. 69-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914847
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Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson: The Misunderstood Relationship Between These Activist Athletes

Peter Dreier
pp. 80-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914848
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“Just” Calling Balls and Strikes: Umpires and Judges

Mark L. Pelesh
pp. 97-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914849
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Reviews

The Mustache Gang Battles the Big Red Machine: The 1972 World Series by John G. Robertson and Carl T. Madden (review)

David M. Pegram
pp. 114-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914850
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Field of Magic, Baseball’s Superstitions, Curses and Taboos by John Cairney (review)

Lisa Alexander
pp. 116-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914851
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Backyards to Ballparks: More Personal Baseball Stories from the Stand and Beyond by Eric C. Gray (review)

Anna Adams, Alisa Chirkova-Holland
pp. 118-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914852
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Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers by Erik Sherman (review)

Claudia Caplan Wolff
pp. 120-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914853
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Baseball’s Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It by Lee Lowenfish (review)

Mitchell Nathanson
pp. 122-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914854
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Baseball’s Wildest Season: Three Leagues, Thirty-Four Teams and the Chaos of 1884 by William J. Ryczek (review)

Scott D. Peterson
pp. 124-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914855
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Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of ’82 by J. Daniel (review)

Steve Gietschier
pp. 127-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914856
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Fans Called Him “Turkey,” I Called Him Dad: A Daughter Remembers Baseball Hall of Famer Norman Thomas Stearnes by Rosilyn Stearnes-Brown (review)

J. L. Steele
pp. 129-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914857
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Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball by Chris Donnelly (review)

Andy McCue
pp. 131-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914858
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Bush League Blues by Mike Floyd (review)

Chad S. Wise
pp. 132-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914859
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Spitter: Baseball’s Notorious Gaylord Perry by David Vaught (review)

Mark Armour
pp. 134-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914860
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Baseball at the Abyss: The Scandals of 1926, Babe Ruth, and the Unlikely Savior Who Rescued a Tarnished Game by Dan Taylor (review)

David Bohmer
pp. 136-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2023.a914861
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