The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

The Cambridge Companion to Baseball is not your typical reference book. The volume covers a breadth of topics related to baseball, with a focus on “the culture of baseball, baseball as culture and the game's global identity”. The work is made up of eight sections, including: a list of illustrations (eight of them), list of contributors (21 of them), a baseball chronology, an introduction, 15 chapters, seven inter‐chapters, a guide to further reading, and an index. The bulk of the work is in chapter form, which average in length from ten to 18 pages. Chapters are complemented by shorter inter‐chapters...