Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business within the broader contours of American history.
In 1981 the suspended walkways—or “skywalks”—in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest... Læs mere
G. Kurt Piehler underscores the significant institutional and cultural shift in the place of religion in the armed forces during World War II.
Clubbie is a hilarious and illuminating memoir about a starry-eyed baseball fan who accidentally became part of the Minor League system that exploited his heroes.
Here is the life story of Horace Stoneham, who inherited the New York Giants Major League Baseball franchise in 1936 and owned and operated the organization until 1976.
Through a geographical lens Alan P. Marcus provides a new synthesis for interpreting the Confederado story... Læs mere
A Booklist Top 10 Sports and Recreation Book This biography of sports announcer Red Barber (1908–92) puts his life and broadcasting career in the context of twentieth-century American life and explores his own personal journey.
SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research’s wide-ranging contributions to the game of baseball.
Asphalt: A History demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways constitute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O’Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it.