From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each seas

Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from it

At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in pa

During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, pl

Hall of Famer Mathews chronicles his life & baseball career, including anecdotes about Hank Aaron & Bob Uecker.