Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Baseball’s Origins
Additional Readings: Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide 1908 and Bats, Balls, and Bullets: Baseball and the Civil War by George B. Kirsch
Chapter 2: Baseball Becomes a Business, 1876-1892
Additional Readings: Out at Home: Baseball Draws the Color Line by Jerry Malloy and Casey at the Bat
Chapter 3: Monopoly Baseball and the Rise of the American League, 1891-1908
Additional Readings: Race and Ethnicity in American Baseball: 1900-1919 by Steven A. Riess and Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 1908
Chapter 4: Baseball’s Silver Age
Additional Reading: Anatomy of a Murder: The Federal League and the Courts by Gary Hailey
Chapter 5: The Roaring Twenties and Baseball’s Golden Age
Additional Readings: The Babe on Balance by Marshall Smelser and The Judge Who Ruled Baseball by Bruce Watson
Chapter 6: Depression and World War II, 1931-1945
Additional Readings: The History of Women’s Baseball by Kerry Candaele and Baseball and World War II: A Study of the Landis-Roosevelt Correspondence by James A. Percoco
Chapter 7: Boom, Bust, and Expansion, 1946-1960
Additional Reading: Blacks in Major League Baseball: The Experience of the First Generation, 1947-1961 by John Rossi
Chapter 8: Baseball’s New Frontier, 1961-1977
Additional Readings: A Tale of Many Cities: The Westward Expansion of Major League Baseball in the 1950s by Lee Elihu Lowenfish and Walter O’Malley Was Right by Paul Hirsch
Chapter 9: The End of Baseball Innocence
Additional Reading: The Quest of Marvin Miller: A Briefcase for a Lance by Lawrence Richards
Chapter 10: Late Innings: Baseball Enters the New Century, 1994-2017
Additional Reading: Totally Juiced: Confessions of a Former MVP by Tom Verducci
Index
Bibliography
About the Author