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 NationalPastime?                                                                                                               2          The Business of Baseball3          Screening Who Gets to Play4          The Glocalized Game    5          Fanball 6          Learning the GameConclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan       and Going OnlineList of Baseball Films and Television Shows

"Aaron Baker's history of how film has represented baseball as a component of American society stands alone. Replete with exceptionally perceptive observations about dozens of baseball films, this book is a 'must' read for students of the game."— Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game, 4th ed."An insightful and necessary analysis of baseball as a sport and a film subgenre through a sociopolitical lens examining race, gender, sexuality, globalization, and more."— The Brooklyn Rail

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 NationalPastime?                                                                                                               2          The Business of Baseball3          Screening Who Gets to Play4          The Glocalized Game    5          Fanball 6          Learning the GameConclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan       and Going OnlineList of Baseball Films and Television Shows

"Aaron Baker's history of how film has represented baseball as a component of American society stands alone. Replete with exceptionally perceptive observations about dozens of baseball films, this book is a 'must' read for students of the game."— Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game, 4th ed."An insightful and necessary analysis of baseball as a sport and a film subgenre through a sociopolitical lens examining race, gender, sexuality, globalization, and more."— The Brooklyn Rail

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 NationalPastime?                                                                                                               2          The Business of Baseball3          Screening Who Gets to Play4          The Glocalized Game    5          Fanball 6          Learning the GameConclusion: The Show for the Thinking Fan       and Going OnlineList of Baseball Films and Television Shows

"Aaron Baker's history of how film has represented baseball as a component of American society stands alone. Replete with exceptionally perceptive observations about dozens of baseball films, this book is a 'must' read for students of the game."— Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game, 4th ed."An insightful and necessary analysis of baseball as a sport and a film subgenre through a sociopolitical lens examining race, gender, sexuality, globalization, and more."— The Brooklyn Rail