James T. Farrell and baseball : dreams and realism on Chicago's South Side /
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Growing Up on the South Side; 2. Farrell, Baseball, and the Making of a Literary Mind; 3. Danny O'Neill's Baseball Dreams; 4. Chicago's Summer Pastime; 5. The College Game, Baseball Diplomacy, and the Summer Controversy; 6. Rube Foster and Chicago's Black South Side Teams; 7. Comiskey and Chicago's White South Side Team; 8. The Business of Baseball; 9. The Fix, the Scandal, and the Response; 10. Looking Backward; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index