Covering everything from Bull Durham (1988) to The Bad News Bears (1976) this book examines how baseball-themed films and TV series depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society. It considers works that nostalgically lionize white male heroes alongside films and television that dramatize the contributions of female and BIPOC players.

AARON BAKER is a professor of film and media studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. Author of the books Steven Soderbergh and Contesting Identity: Sports in American Film, he also edited the collections A Companion to Martin Scorsese and Out of Bounds: Sports, Media and the Politics of Identity.

Introduction: Baseball According to Satchel Paige: "Don't look back.
Something might be gaining on you."                                                                 
1          Hollywood Baseball Films: Nostalgic White Masculinity or the National
            Pastime?                                                                                                               
2          The Business of Baseball
3          Screening Who Gets to Play
4          The Glocalized Game    
5          Fanball 
6          Learning the Game
Conclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan       and Going Online
List of Baseball Films and Television Shows