Ron Briley Books
The politics of baseball
By Ron Briley
"This collection of sixteen essays looks at the sport from the perspectives of race, sexual orientation, economic power, social class, imperialism, nationalism, and international diplomacy. The ess...
Read MoreThe baseball film in postwar America
By Ron Briley
"This work focuses on the baseball movie genre in the years following World War II, beginning with the 1948 biopic The Babe Ruth Story and ending with the 1962 Mickey Mantle-Roger Maris vehicle Saf...
Read MoreAll stars and movie stars
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"Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. In All-Sta...
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