Contemporary Works
Donovan, Tom, ed. The Hazy Red Hell: Fighting Experiences on the Western Front, 1914–1918. Staplehurst, England: Spellmount Publishers, 1999.
Evers, John J., and Hugh S. Fullerton. Touching Second. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. Originally published in 1910 by Reilly and Britton.
Harold Kaese Collection, Boston Public Library.
Lieb, Fred. Baseball as I Have Known It. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977.
———. Scientific Baseball. New York: Richard K. Fox, 1913.
Mack, Connie. My 66 Years in the Big Leagues: The Great Story of America’s National Game. Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Company, 1950.
Maranville, Walter “Rabbit.” Run, Rabbit, Run: The Hilarious and Mostly True Tales of Rabbit Maranville. Cleveland, OH: Society for American Baseball Research, 1991.
Mathewson, Christy. Pitching in a Pinch: Or Baseball from the Inside. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1912.
McGraw, John. My Thirty Years in Baseball. New York: Arno Press, 1974. Originally published in 1923 by Boni and Liveright.
Richter, Francis C., ed. The Reach Official: American League Baseball Guide for 1914. Philadelphia, PA: A. J. Reach, 1914.
Ritter, Lawrence. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. New York: Perennial, 2002.
Runyon, Damon. Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005.
Sullivan, Dean A., ed. Middle Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1900–1948. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. Chapter II, 1911, Ibiblio.org, http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/fwt/t2.html (accessed August 10, 2013).
Contemporary Periodicals
Baseball Magazine
Boston Globe
Boston Post
New York Times
Sporting Life
“Topics in Chronicling America: World War I Declarations.” Library of Congress Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ww1declarations.html (accessed August 25, 2013).
Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York, clipping files:
John J. Evers
James E. Gaffney
Walter “Rabbit” Maranville
George Stallings
Secondary Books and Articles
Adair, Robert K. The Physics of Baseball. New York: Itbooks, 2003.
Adler, Richard. Mack, McGraw, and the 1913 Baseball Season. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Alexander, Charles C. John McGraw. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.
———. Our Game: An American Baseball History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.
———. Ty Cobb. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Anderson, David. More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Angell, Roger. Once More around the Park: A Baseball Reader. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1988.
Asinof, Eliot. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and 1919 World Series. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1963.
Bell, Buddy, and Neal Vahle. Smart Baseball: How Professionals Play the Mental Game. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.
Bell, Christopher. Scapegoats: Baseballers Whose Careers Are Marked by One Fateful Play. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
Bogen, Gil. Tinker, Evers, and Chance: A Triple Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.
Boyle, Robert H. “Frank Merriwell’s Triumph: How Yale’s Great Athlete Captured America’s Fancy, or, Purified the Penny Dreadfuls and Became Immortal.” SI Vault, December 24, 1962, http://si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1135102/index.htm (accessed January 1, 2014).
Breslin, Jimmy. Branch Rickey. New York: Viking, 2011.
Brinkley, Douglas. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress. New York: Viking, 2003.
Browning, Reed. Cy Young. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
Burgos, Adrian, Jr. Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Burk, Robert F. Only a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Clark, Christopher M. The Sleep Walkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
Cohen, Richard M., Jordan A. Deutsch, David S. Neft, and Roland T. Johnson. World Series. New York: Dial, 1976.
Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900–1925. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Creamer, Robert W. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
Davis, Ted. Connie Mack: A Life in Baseball. San Jose, CA: Writers’ Club Press, 2000.
Deford, Frank. The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball. New York: Grove Press, 2005.
Dewey, Donald. Total Ballclubs: The Ultimate Book of Baseball Teams. Wilmington, DE: Sports Media Publishing, 2005.
Dewey, Donald, and Nicholas Acocella. The Biographical History of Baseball. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2002.
———. The Black Prince of Baseball: Hal Chase and the Mythology of Baseball. Wilmington, DE: Sports Media Publishing, 2004.
———. Total Ball Clubs. Toronto: Sports Classics Books, 2005.
Dickey, Glenn. The History of the World Series since 1903. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.
Dickson, Paul. Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
———. The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime. New York: Walker and Company, 2003.
Durant, John. Baseball’s Miracle Teams. New York: Hastings House, 1975.
Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Einstein, Charles, ed. The Baseball Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Enright, Jim. Chicago Cubs. New York: Routledge, 1975.
Frommer, Harvey. Baseball’s Greatest Managers. New York: Franklin Watts, 1985.
Gay, Timothy M. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend. Guildford, CT: Lyons Press, 2007.
Gershman, Michael. Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark from the Elysian Fields to Camden Yards. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Gillete, Gary, and Pete Palmer, eds. The Ultimate Red Sox Companion: A Complete Statistical and Reference Encyclopedia. Hingham, MA: Maple Street Press, 2007.
Ginsburg, Daniel. The Fix Is In: A History of Baseball Gambling and Game-Fixing Scandals. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Gmelch, George. “Superstition and Ritual in American Baseball.” Elysian Fields Quarterly 11, no. 3 (1992): 25–36.
Goldman, Steven, ed. Extra Innings: More Baseball between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus. New York: Basic Books, 2012.
———. It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Greenberg, Eric Rolfe. The Celebrant. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
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Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Hirshberg, Al. The Braves: The Pick and the Shovel. Boston: Waverly House, 1948.
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR. New York: Vantage Books, 1955.
Hogan, Lawrence D. Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African American Baseball. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.
Holmes, Dan. Ty Cobb: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
Honig, Donald. Baseball America: The Heroes of the Game and Times of Their Glory. New York: Macmillan, 1985.
———. Baseball’s 10 Greatest Teams. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
———. The Greatest Shortstops of All Time. Dubuque, IA: Brown & Benchmark, 1992.
Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995.
James, Bill. The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers: From 1870 to Today. New York: Scribner, 1997.
———. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. New York: Free Press, 2001.
James, Bill, and Rob Neyer. The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Jones, David, ed. Deadball Stars of the American League. Written by the Deadball Era Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2006.
Kaese, Harold. The Boston Braves. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1948.
Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. New York: Viking, 1997.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Keri, Jonah, ed. Baseball between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
Kimmel, Michael S., and Amy Aronson. Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Klapisch, Bob, and Pete Van Wieren. The Braves: An Illustrated History of America’s Team. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995.
———. The World Champion Braves: 125 Years of America’s Team. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1996.
Koppett, Leonard. Koppett’s Concise History of Major League Baseball. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998.
———. The Man in the Dugout: Baseball’s Top Managers and How They Got That Way. New York: Crown, 1993.
Layden, Tim. “Tinker to Evers to Chance . . . to Me.” SI Vault, December 3, 2012, http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1206500/3/index.htm (accessed August 11, 2013).
Levy, Alan H. “The Right Myths at the Right Time: Myth Making and Hero Worship in Post-Frontier American Society—Rube Waddell vs. Christy Mathewson.” In The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2001, ed. Alvin L. Hall, 51–65. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
———. Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
Lewis, Michael. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Lind, Michael. Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States. New York: HarperCollins, 2012.
Littlefield, Bill, and Richard A. Johnson. Fall Classics: The Best Writing about the World Series’ First 100 Years. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Macht, Norman. Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Mansch, Larry D. Rube Marquard: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.
McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920. New York: Free Press, 2003.
Mills, Dorothy Seymour. Chasing Baseball: Our Obsession with Its History, Numbers, People, and Places. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
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Mohl, Raymond A. The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1985.
Murphy, Cait. Crazy ’08: How A Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History. New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2007.
Nathanson, Mitchell. A People’s History of Baseball. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Neyer, Rob. Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, Lies, and Everything Else. New York: Fireside, 2008.
Neyer, Rob, and Eddie Epstein. Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Nowlin, Bill, ed. Opening Fenway Park in Style: The 1912 Boston Red Sox. Phoenix, AZ: Society for American Baseball Research, 2012.
O’Connor, Thomas H. The Hub: Boston Past and Present. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
Okrent, Daniel, and Harris Lewine, eds. The Ultimate Baseball Book. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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Peary, Danny. Cult Baseball Players: The Greats, the Flakes, the Weird, and the Wonderful. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Peterson, Richard. “Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Irish in the Early History of Baseball.” In The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999, ed. Peter M. Rutkoff, 177–86. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
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———. Daily Life in the Progressive Era. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.
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———. Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
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———. American Baseball, Volume II: From the Commissioners to Continental Expan-sion. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
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