Hardscrabble Diamonds

Colin Howell is a professor emeritus from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax where he taught Canadian and sport history and the former editor of the Canadian Historical Review.

• Table of ContentsPreface: Baseball, Memory and HistoryOne. The Postwar Flourishing of Baseball in the MaritimesTwo. Home Diamonds: Local Stars of Postwar Maritime BaseballThree. The Barnstorming Era: American Baseball’s Northward Glance, 1948–50Four. Tipping the Balance: The American Influence and the Marginalization of Local PlayersFive. Bill Brooks, Art Hoch and the Carolinian ConnectionSix. “NCAA North”: CWS Champions, Bonus Babies and ­All-AmericansSeven. Playing in “Color Bar Limbo”: Black Players in the Maritimes, 1946–60Eight. Borderlands Baseball: New Brunswick and MaineNine. Troublesome Times: 1955–57Ten. Playing Out the String: 1957–59Eleven. ­Post-Game ReminiscencesTwelve. Great Performers, Great Performances: A Statistical RetrospectiveAppendix 1: Career Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and MaineAppendix 2: ­Single-Season Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and MaineAppendix 3: Career PitchingAppendix 4: Players from Major NCAA ProgramsEssay on SourcesChapter NotesBibliographyIndex