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NINE
A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
Edited by Trey Strecker

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NINE studies all historical aspects of baseball, centering on the societal and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world it is played. This journal features articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, oral history, and short fiction pieces.


17, no. 2 (Spring 2009)

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Articles
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
 
"A Mirthful Spectacle": Race, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Base Ball, 1874-1888
James E. Brunson III
 
A Case of Cultural Forgetting: Black Newspapers' Presentation of Black Baseball in 1932
Thomas Aiello
 
Looking Bad on Paper, Worse on Film: Portrayals of Sports Journalists in Three Classic Baseball Films
John Carvalho and Nicholas Kirby
 
Rings Born of Impulse: Gift-Exchange Economies in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant
Ronald Kates
 
Driven: Branding Derek Jeter, Redefining Race
Roberta Newman
 
I'm the King of the World?: Barry Bonds and the "Race" for the Record
Lisa Doris Alexander
 
Triple Play
Ben Harjo's All-Indian Baseball Club
Royse Parr
 
Barnstorming, Baseball, and Bluegrass Music
David K. Jackson
 
Whither or Whether the Stolen Base?
Paul Bursik and Kevin Quinn
 
Book Reviews
The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969, and The Yankees in the Early 1960s
Mark Armour
 
The New York Mets: Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
David Shiner
 
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond
Roberta Newman
 
Anatomy of Baseball
Scott Peterson
 
The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949
William E. Akin
 
August "Garry" Herrmann: A Baseball Biography
Steve Steinberg
 
"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie": The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game
Christopher M. Keshock
 
Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography
Harry Jebsen Jr.
 
"Swish" Nicholson: A Biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger
James E. Martin
 
Working at the Ballpark: The Fascinating Lives of Baseball People, from Peanut Vendors and Broadcasters to Players and Managers
Harold V. Higham
 
The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit
John Paul Hill
 
The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees: October 13, 1960
David Mills
 
Film Review
The Bronx is Burning: The Complete Series
Ron Briley
 
Oral History
Mike Murphy: Equipment Manager, San Francisco Giants
George Gmelch
 
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