...Amira Rose Davis This article examines the experiences and representations of three black women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s. The article demonstrates the way the Negro League owners, the black press, and black male sportswriters used varying representations of athletic...

... our “Introduction to Historical Interpretation” course, with baseball and integration as the topical focus. My interest in the workings of sport and society is partly autobiographical. My inter- est in this field arose partly from my experience playing baseball, first in high school...

..., in the 1890s women’s baseball teams traveled between Cuba and the United States.11 The historian Louis A. Pérez Jr. found that women’s early attendance at baseball games created possibilities for their participa- tion in the public sphere. By the turn of the twentieth century, physical education fit...

... League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball (2011) and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (2007). He has consulted for National Baseball Hall of Fame’s ¡Viva Baseball! exhibit (2009) and Ken Burns’s documentaries The Tenth Inning and Race Man: The Life and Times of Jackie...

... to the baseball diamond as well. In the late 1940s and 1950s, New York City was the center of the baseball world. “Joe DiMaggio Done It Again” (MAII) retells the on-field exploits of the New York Yankees’ center fielder. The song is enjoyable in its own right...

... in Saylesville, covering happenings within both the plant and the community. There was, in fact, little distinction between the community and the workplace. Reports ranged from the scores of the company bowling and baseball teams to the visits of Santa Claus...

.... . ." In the memorabilia business, the auction of some 20,000 Topps baseball cards at Hunter College this August was a landmark of sorts. Not only did the offering amount to a divestiture of three- quarters of the bubblegum company's archival holdings, but, or- chestrated as it was by Guernsey's, a New York...

...? Healey: No, never. Interviewer: Anything else in terms of anecdotes, glimpses into him that you recall? I44/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW Healey: Well, I just got back from taking my grandsons and sitting and watching, for three hours, their baseball game, and [laughs] my mind is a blank...

... on the experimental Sunday, and this, said the reporter, was simply too great a burden on the park. Boys played baseball despite the prohibition on the game; and "even worse," young women pulled up tufts of grass, stuffed the grass into handkerchiefs, and used them as balls in games of catch. But only one...

... season in which only those who have won more than they have lost go to the play-offs. Organizing is not even baseball, where one is expected to strike Radical History Review Issue 102 (Fall 2008)  d o i 10.1215/01636545-2008-011 © 2008 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc...

... been characteristic of historians‘ scholarship as well as history teaching. A cross-section of the recent concerns of historians is presented here-Ethnic History, Black History, Labor History, Oral History, Family History, Women’s History, and even the history of ”Baseball from the Bottom Up...

... of Jackie Robinson. Recently, Rachel Robinson’s, Jackie’s widow, announced that the film would be made by Spike Lee, although it had been assumed that Burns would direct the project as a sequel of sorts to his 18-hour ”Baseball” series. What ’’soured” Robinson on General Burns, New Yurk Times...

... in the November 2006 elections), Phoenix continues to aggressively court gay travelers. Phoenix city and tourism officials met in January 2006 to coordinate their efforts, which resulted in a homoerotic ad featuring a rear-view close-up of a baseball player with the caption, “To the rest of the country...

... earlier lost their home on the Common, were banned in 1875. Three years later, the soon-to-be-familiar “keep off the grass” signs were given legal sanction.lo Baseball playing was left undisturbed, but Lincoln hoped that this ”dreary amusement’’ would soon be removed from his cherished Elm...

..., the Helmses have probably been too preocuppied to take note of the Arlington affair, what with all the smutty art exhibits springing up like homoerotic mushrooms around the country-even, by God, in Cincinnati. What's a good 01' boy to do, after all, when the courts start sending baseball...

... unproven. Equally sugges- tive is his account of the remaking and commercialization of work- ing-class culture in the twentieth century. The triumph of the movies, organized baseball and other mass amusements may, on the one hand, have created a ”safety valve” for popular discontents...

... to include religion, sports, holiday rituals, and drinking habits. Still, male-only saloons, fire companies, and baseball leagues have been the initial objects of study. With the publication of books such as City of Women, Cheap Amusements, and Counter Cultures, the task of under- RADICAL...

..., the filmMoneyball , based on Michael Lewis’s best-­selling book, was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor (Brad Pitt). Moneyball exemplifies many of the effects that are wrought by financial logics, where a statistical analysis of the labor of baseball — hitting, running, fielding...

.... There is a series of antinuclear posters on the walls throughout the restaurant, including one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, saying “War Is Over If You Want It.” That day, radio in the background played coverage of a baseball game. Chikahiro, the owner of Dougenbouzu, is well known as a fan of the team the Hiroshima...

... rallies, dances, an excellent cafeteria and relief system, and even a baseball league. In contrast, the UTW largely engi- neered the strike in the Blackstone; and while the union did provide an effective relief system, it failed, especially in the critical Central...