Baseball and the American dream : race, class, gender, and the national pastime

Prologue : The missing Ball thrower / Laura Ward

A fit for a fractured society : baseball and the American promise / Robert Elias

The greatest season : from Jackie Robinson to Sammy Sosa / Roger Kahn

Jackie Robinson's legacy : baseball, race, and politics / Peter Dreier

The beauty of the game / Dusty Baker

Sammy Sosa meets Horatio Alger : Latin ballplayers and the American success myth / Samuel O. Regalado

From hardball to hard time and back / Orlando Cepeda, with Herb Fagen

Borders and Shangri-La : Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez and me / Andrei Codrescu

California baseball's mixed multitudes / Joel Franks

The road to Cooperstown : Japanese American baseball, 1899-1999 / Kerry Yo Nakagawa

From San Francisco sandlots to the big leagues : Babe Pinelli / John J. Pinelli

The common dream examined / William Edwards

Left Capitola for a fate unknown : Harry Hooper / Paul J. Zingg

Past [im]perfect : mythology, nostalgia, and baseball / Suzanne Griffith Prestien

The shot heard 'round the world : America at midcentury / Jules Tygiel

Beyond the dugout : reassessing the baseball dream / George McGlynn

America's two realms / Randy M. Torrijos

The ring / Thomas J. Stillman

Luring teams, building ballparks / Jeremy Howell

A new golden age? An evolving baseball dream / Leonard Koppett

To elevate the game : women and early baseball / Darryl Brock and Robert Elias

Women, baseball, and the American dream / Gai Ingham Berlage

A league of our own / Lois J. Youngen

Dream or nightmare? Baseball and the gender order / Anne R. Roschelle

The tune plays the same / Joan Ryan