Many fathers of baseball : Anglo-Americans and the early game / Frederick Ivor-Campbell -- German Americans in major league baseball : sport and acculturation / Larry R. Gerlach -- "Slide, Kelly, slide" : the Irish in American baseball / Richard F. Peterson -- Unreconciled strivings : baseball in Jim Crow America / Jules Tygiel -- Before Joe D : early Italian Americans in the major leagues / Lawrence Baldassaro -- From Pike to Green with Greenberg in between : Jewish Americans and the national pastime / Steven A. Riess -- Diamonds out of the coal mines : Slavic Americans in baseball / Neal Pease -- Latin quarter in the major leagues : adjustment and achievement / Samuel O. Regalado -- Baseball and racism's traveling eye : the Asian Pacific American experience / Joel S. Franks