The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons New Yorker

Major League Baseball, alone among industries of its size in the United States, operates as an unregulated monopoly. This 20th-century regulatory anomaly has become known as the ba...

Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman...

The first-ever biography of an unlikely baseball pioneer. While baseball’s postwar years are often called the “Golden Age” of the sport, it was also an era when the reser...

Baseball did not become gendered as a man’s sport overnight nor did any single group dominate the cultural metanarrative of baseball as it matured from infancy to adolescence durin...

The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons engages with close to one thousand editorial cartoons to analyze the visual representations of President Donald Trump and his responses t...

When the National Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its first class of players in 1936, Ty Cobb received more votes than any other player—even more than did fellow inductee Babe Ruth....

**Booklist Starred Review** A fascinating look back on baseball’s humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominate...

From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore’s journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary. When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his ...