Book Reviews in Nine: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture

October 2, 2007

NINE is a scholarly journal published twice a year by the University of Nebraska Press that “studies all historical aspects of baseball, centering on the societal and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world it is played. [The] journal features articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, oral history, and short fiction pieces.”

Included in the Fall 2007 issue (Vol 16, No. 2) are reviews of:

Spalding’s World Tour: The Epic Adventure That Took Baseball around the Globe–And Made It America’s Game
Reviewed by Harry Jebsen

Black and Blue: The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America
Reviewed by Ron Kaplan

Hammering Hank: How the Media Made Henry Aaron
Reviewed by Ron Kaplan

Out of the Shadows: African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson
Reviewed by Lisa Doris Alexander

The View From the Dugout: The Journals of Red Rolfe
Reviewed by David Shiner

The ManDak League: Haven for Former Negro League Ballplayers, 1950-1957
Reviewed by John Paul Hill

Sunday Baseball: The Major Leagues’ Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord’s Day, 1876-1934
Reviewed by Gene Carney

Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
Reviewed by Bill Swanson

In the Best Interests of Baseball: The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig
Reviewed by Harold V. Higham

A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, vol. 1, The Game on the Field
Reviewed by Nat Newell

What is Jewish About America’s “Favorite Pastime”? Essays and Sermons on Jews, Judaism, and Baseball
Reviewed by George Goodman

Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero
Reviewed by Roberta Newman

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