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Long before strip malls, television and huge retail chains homogenized American culture, minor league baseball clubs represented individual, local ideals.

Though baseball would eventually come to embody the American spirit, in the nineteenth century onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence.

Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan's first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose Bowl since 1951, and finished fourth in the national college football polls.

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Between 1929 and 1937, Hall of Fame coach Jock Sutherland took the championship program at the University of Pittsburgh that was built by his mentor Glenn "e;Pop"e; Warner, and won five of the nine national championships the school now claims.

BACK ISSUE Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually.

BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche.

The Negro Southern League was a baseball minor league that operated off and on from 1920 to 1951.

This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists.

The position of catcher in baseball requires a broad set of physical and mental skills.

When Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties, the stage was set for one of baseball's greatest dynasties.

The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience.

Over their first four decades in the American League, the Cleveland Indians were known more for great players than consistently great play.

Frank Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century.

The crack of the bat, the cheering of fans and the agility and athleticism of the players are all characteristics that many people fondly associate with Major League Baseball.

This is a history of the New York Yankees over a decade which saw them at the top of the American League and at the bottom.

The 1970s were both successful and tragic for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

One of the oldest and most celebrated franchises in baseball history, the Cincinnati Reds have left an indelible mark on the national pastime.

This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900.

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "e;manhood"e; and the art of clowning.

This book chronicles the history of the Philadelphia Athletics, the first real dynasty in Major League Baseball.

By the mid-1870s, gambling in baseball threatened the public's confidence in the sport and its very existence as a professional enterprise.

This chronologically organized book is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of forfeits and successful protests of major league baseball games, educating the reader on the rules and prevailing styles of play at the time that each of the games was played.

Chronicling the 1902-1960 rivalry between the Minneapolis Millers and St.

The book chronicles almost 300 in-season changes of managers in the major leagues since 1900.

Most baseball fans know Tom Candiotti as a knuckleballer but he began his career as a conventional pitcher in 1983--after becoming just the second player to appear in the major leagues following Tommy John surgery, at a time when only Tommy John himself had ever come back from the operation.

The exemplar of the major league slugging shortstop before either Honus Wagner or Lou Boudreau, Ed McKean spent a dozen seasons as a high-profile contributor to the Cleveland Spiders, leading his team to three playoff berths and the 1895 Temple Cup championship.

This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavor of the period by providing yearly overviews from the standpoint of each team and by focusing more deeply on 30 or more players of the era--not only such legendary stars as Cy Young and Willie Keeler, but also relative unknowns such as Bill Keister and Kip Selbach.

Baseball has had many outstanding Latin American pitchers since the early 20th century.

"e;A gentleman when the game was hard-bitten, played by rough-and-ready lads out to win whatever the cost.

For more than a century Johnny Evers has been conjoined with Chicago Cubs teammates Frank Chance and Joe Tinker, thanks to eight lines of verse by a New York columnist.

For more than 120 years, the University of Southern California Trojans have maintained a tradition of football excellence that has placed the team among the perennial elite in the collegiate ranks.

After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season after a monumental deal with the Louisville Colonels.

This account of professional golf during the Great Depression begins with a look at the "e;roaring 1920s"e; and how the game developed during this exciting decade.

BACK ISSUE Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually.

This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers.

BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.

Fifty fictional legendary baseball players and their illustrated biographies.

The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade).

Gib Bodet's 70-year love affair with baseball dates from his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and it has carried him through parts of six decades as a scout with the Red Sox, Tigers, Expos, Angels, Royals, and Dodgers.

This is a straightforward history of the Athletics franchise, from its Connie Mack years in Philadelphia with teams featuring Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Jimmy Foxx, Mickey Cochrane and Lefty Grove, through its 13 years in Kansas City, under Arnold Johnson and Charles O.

This is the story of one of the all-time great teams of major league baseball, the 1957 Milwaukee Braves.

Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past.

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21.

This work is a game-by-game account of the Philadelphia Athletics' pitiful 1916 season, in which they won just 36 of 154 games.

The Giant-Dodger rivalry was considered the best in baseball by 1890 and remains the game's oldest and most storied rivalry today.

This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers' final eight years in Brooklyn.

Cap Anson's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: "e;The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century.