From a broader review of Texas-pertinent books from the Abilene Reporter News:
Baseball history: Two historians at the University of Texas at
Arlington, Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks, have edited a
collection of six scholarly essays on Baseball in America &
America in Baseball (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover).The essays were written by professors from throughout the United
States, including one from Texas David Vaught, who teaches history at
Texas A&M. Vaught’s piece looks at baseball in rural California
from 1850 to 1890.Other chapters consider Japanese Americans and baseball in the
1930s; the Baltimore Black Sox (winner of the American Negro League in
1929); the profitability of Major League Baseball from 1900 to 1956,
before the Dodgers and Giants moved west; the global influence of
baseball between the two World Wars; and the violent life of baseball
legend Ty Cobb.
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