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Mark Harris's It Looked Like Forever, the last of his four Henry Wiggen novels, has received far less critical commentary than the first two, The Southpaw and Bang the Drum [...]

Ron Briley, ed. The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 250 pp. Paper, $39.95. Baseball scholars like to say [...]

James T. Farrell. Dreaming Baseball. Preface by Eliot Asinof. Afterword by Ron Briley. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007. 316 pp. Cloth, $28.00. Author of more than twenty-seven novels [...]

Written between 1949 and 1950 and published in 1951, Bernard Malamud's The Natural has garnered more critical attention than any other baseball novel. This attention is not surprising, for The [...]

Joe Louis, Pope Paul VI, Robert Merrill, Y. A. Tittle, Billy Graham, Marianne Moore, Johnny Unitas, Josh Gibson, Jackie Gleason, Pele, and Muhammad Ali, not to mention Yankee superstars Gehrig, [...]

Eliot Asinof. Off-Season. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 149 pp. Cloth, $22.50. In his classic study of the Black Sox Scandal, Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof portrays the banned [...]

David McGimpsey. Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 194 pp. Cloth, $29.95. David McGimpsey's Imagining Baseball proposes 'to initiate a discussion of how representations [...]

Lawrence Baldassaro. Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 472 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Peter Carino While too often baseball books that purport to examine some [...]

Josh Chetwynd. Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.344 pp. Paper, $35.00. When casual fans, and even many baseball scholars, think of baseball as an [...]

James W. Pipkin. Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2008. 161 pp. ISBN 0-82621779-6, $29.95. James W Pipkin's Sporting Lives gives scholarly [...]

Michael Steinberg. Still Pitching. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 300 pp. Cloth, $27.95. Fans often come to baseball through playing the game in youth, through rooting for a [...]

Mike Lupica. Wild Pitch. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. 352 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Most readers of NINE know Mike Lupica as the tough-talking, some might say mouthy, little [...]

Hobe Hays. Take Two and Hit to Right: Golden Days on the Semi-Pro Diamond. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. X + 239 pp. Illustrations. Paper, $14.00 In Field of [...]

Mark Twain, Westward Expansion, Immigrant Unrest Baseball and American Growing Pains in Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Rack Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Back recounts the time traveling [...]

Jean Hastings Ardell. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime. Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005, 278 pp. With Breaking into Baseball, Jean Ardell offers a useful compendium [...]

Robert W. Cohen. The Lean Years of the Yankees: 1965-1975. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2004, 254 pp. Paper, $29.95. Most baseball books are written to recall and celebrate the glory years [...]

David Menary. Terrier Town: Summer of '49. Waterloo ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003. 407 pp. Paper, $25.95 U.S. In terms of genre David Menary's Terrier Town: Summer of '49 [...]