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This biography of Tris Speaker is the first to tell the full story of Speaker’s turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball’s dead-ball era.

Chachi D. Hauser combines memoir, cultural criticism, and poetic modes to examine gender identity and her relationship to Walt Disney and the Disney company.

A Grammar of Upper Tanana is a comprehensive text that performs the impressive task of linguistically rendering a written record of the endangered Upper Tanana language.

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With a new epilogue, Joe Bonomo looks at Roger Angell’s writing over the decades, including his early short stories, pieces for the New Yorker, and later autobiographical essays, and at the common threads that run through it.

Mother-daughter tensions, age-old prejudices, and generational divides challenge the members of this disparate community in the Nebraska Sandhills as they bump up against each other seeking identity, acceptance, and healing.

Toward a More Perfect Union collects 162 letters exchanged between Frederic E. Lockley and his wife Elizabeth, during and after the Civil War.

In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves’s presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media.

Nature’s Mountain Mansion focuses exclusively on the critical nineteenth century when Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks.

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Bleeding Green is a lifelong fan’s look at the Hartford Whalers, a National Hockey League team that, despite an inglorious past and a future that unexpectedly vanished, have had a lasting impact to this day on not only the NHL but the sports landscape as a whole.

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A biography of Charles Webb Murphy, the ebullient and mercurial owner of the Chicago Cubs from 1905 through 1914.

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These poems pry at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.

What have dogs done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? B.J. Hollars attempts to find out with firsthand reports recounting a range of stories revealing much about our pets—and even more about the humans who share their lives.

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In Susan Firer’s The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies, snow drops, “with all their survivor ecstasies”, “windy caravans of lilacs”, and “Dali Lama-robed “ daylilies act as magnets to attract history—personal and historical—myths, language, facts, love, gratitude, prayers, beauty, and ”all the colors of death and sex.” Family oddities appear in this collection,  as well as Catholic rituals, saints, and ghost poets. Always ghost poets: Whitma...

Baseball Rebels recounts baseball’s persistent racism, sexism, and homophobia, as well as the efforts by rebels to challenge these injustices.

A Booklist Top 10 Sports and Recreation Book This biography of sports announcer Red Barber (1908–92) puts his life and broadcasting career in the context of twentieth-century American life and explores his own personal journey.