Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Baseball is much more than a game. As the American national pastime , it has refl ected the political and cultural concerns of US society for over 200 years. Baseball thus possesses a rich lore unmatched by any other American sport and generates passions and loyalties unique in American society. This Companion examines baseball in culture, baseball as culture, and the game’s global identity. Contributors contrast baseball’s massive, big-business present with its romanticized origins and its evolution against the backdrop of American and world history. Chapters cover topics such as baseball in the movies, baseball and mass media, and baseball in Japan and Latin America. Between the chapters are vivid profi les of iconic characters including Babe Ruth, Ichiro, and Walter O’Malley . Crucial moments in baseball history are revisited, ranging from the 1919 Black Sox gambling scandal to recent controversies over steroid use. A unique book for fans and scholars alike, this Companion explains the enduring importance of baseball in America and beyond. leonard cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University. stephen partridge is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of the book © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BASEBALL EDITED BY LEONARD CASSUTO Fordham University STEPHEN PARTRIDGE University of British Columbia © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521145756 © Cambridge University Press 2011 This publication is in copyright. 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Partridge, Stephen. gv867.64.r85 2011 796.3570973–dc22 2010046161 isbn 978-0-521-76182-6 hardback isbn 978-0-521-14575-6 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information CONTENTS List of illustrations page viii List of contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Baseball: a chronology xv stephen partridge Introduction 1 leonard cassuto 1 The rules of baseball 9 steven p. gietschier 2 Baseball in literature, baseball as literature 21 stephen partridge and timothy morris 3 Babe Ruth, sabermetrics, and baseball’s politics of greatness 33 leonard cassuto and david grant Interchapter: Babe Ruth 45 leonard cassuto 4 Not the major leagues: Japanese and Mexican Americans and the national pastime 49 samuel o. regalado 5 Baseball and the color line: from the Negro Leagues to the major leagues 61 leslie heaphy v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information Contents Interchapter: Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood 76 matthew frye jacobson 6 Baseball and war 81 richard crepeau 7 Baseball and the American city 95 david finoli Interchapter: Walter O’Malley 107 leonard cassuto 8 Baseball at the movies 111 george grella 9 The baseball fan 125 al filreis 10 Baseball and material culture 138 david f. venturo Interchapter: the Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card 152 david f. venturo 11 Global baseball: Japan and East Asia 155 masaru ikei Interchapter: Roberto Clemente and Ichiro 168 leonard cassuto 12 Global baseball: Latin America 171 arturo j. marcano and david p. fidler 13 Cheating in baseball 185 david luban and daniel luban Interchapter: Pete Rose 197 leonard cassuto 14 Baseball’s economic development 201 andrew zimbalist vi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information Contents Interchapter: Andy Messersmith, Charlie Finley, and George Steinbrenner 216 jonathan lewin 15 Baseball and mass media 221 curt smith A guide to further reading 241 Index 245 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information ILLUSTRATIONS 1 An artist’s rendering of a game between the Brooklyn Atlantics and Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1870. Transcendental Graphics/theruckerarchive.com. page 14 2 Babe Ruth. © Bettmann/CORBIS. 46 3 Asahi baseball team at their clubhouse in Seattle, c . 1920. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections uw23721z. 53 4 Members of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, champions of the Negro National League in 1935. NoirTech Research. 68 5 Satchel Paige. NoirTech Research. 69 6 Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley looks over a drawing of his proposed Dodger Stadium. AP Photo/Ellis R. Bosworth. 108 7 The Honus Wagner T-206 tobacco card. Art Resource – Wagner, Pittsburgh, 1909–1911. Photomechanical print, from “Baseball series” published for Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. © The New York Public Library/Art Resource, New York. 153 8 Roberto Clemente, sliding into home, 1955. © Bettmann/CORBIS. 169 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information CONTRIBUTORS leonard cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University and the General Editor of The Cambridge History of the American Novel . With the publication of this book, he receives an Erdös number of 4. stephen partridge is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He has published research on Chaucerian and other Middle English manuscripts, most recently as a contributor to The Production of Books in England 1350–1500 , to be published by Cambridge in 2011. He is preparing a book on the manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. richard c. crepeau is Professor of History at the University of Central Florida and author of Baseball: America’s Diamond Mind, 1919–1941 . Professor Crepeau teaches courses in twentieth-century American history, the history of American sport, and the history of baseball. david p. fidler is the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. With Arturo J. Marcano Guevara, he has been active since the late 1990s in raising concerns about problems associated with Major League Baseball’s operations in Latin America, including via the co-authored book Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz (2002). Professor Fidler is also an internationally recognized expert on global health and international law, bio- logical weapons and bioterrorism, the international legal implications of “non- lethal” weapons, and counterinsurgency and rule-of-law operations. al filreis is Kelly Professor, Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published four books, hosts the “PoemTalk” podcast, and is Co-Director of the PennSound archive. He has been a Mets fan since 1962. david finoli is a freelance writer and sports historian who lives with his wife and three children in Monroeville, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Finoli has ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14575-6 — The Cambridge Companion to Baseball Edited by Leonard Cassuto , Stephen Partridge Frontmatter More Information List of Contributors penned eight sports books, the majority dealing with baseball, including four that detail the exploits of his favorite team,