Tag: baseball

You Can’t Eat Home Runs: Hunger and Games on Atlanta’s Southside

.Reading time 34 minutes.

Editor’s note: This it the second post in our series for November, “Metropolitan Consumption.” All other entries for the theme can be found here. By Clif Stratton Atlanta will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Summerhill Riot (hereafter Summerhill Rebellion) in 2026.[1] The spontaneous revolt of the urban poor occurred on September 6, 1966 after […]

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Book Review: Ballparks, Baseball, and the Built Environment in the American City

.Reading time 7 minutes.

By Steven Tischler Goldberger, Paul. Ballpark: Baseball in the American City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Paul Goldberger deftly analyzes changing relationships between professional baseball and urban environments from the mid-19th century to the present day in Ballpark: Baseball in the American City. Goldberger uses ballparks as a lens through which to observe and […]

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