Book Release Date and Pre-Order Link!
I’m thrilled to announce that my first monograph, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark, will be released on March 31, 2026. You can pre-order it through the University of Illinois Press website (promo code S26UIP saves 30% at checkout!) and at Amazon. I will be doing a number of…
Book Contract!
I’m thrilled to be able to say that my book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark, is under contract with the University of Illinois Press! It’s been a long and winding road and publication is still a bit off, but I’m really looking forward to seeing it in print.
Paul Goldberger’s Ballpark
I recently read architecture critic Paul Goldberger’s new book, Ballpark. It felt like a huge missed opportunity to me. Over at Tropics of Meta, I wrote about some of the reasons why I felt that way. You can read my post here.
Opening Day Doubleheader
Here’s an Opening Day doubleheader on baseball history I wrote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/29/the-class-divisions-destroying-opening-day/ https://ussporthistory.com/2018/03/29/kids-cheer-free-a-history-of-putting-kids-in-the-cheap-seats/ Play ball!
Made by History at the Washington Post
I published a piece on the Washington Post’s “Made by History” site. You can read it here.
Jackie Robinson and the National Anthem
Back in April, around the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s MLB debut, I wrote an article for Weekend Caucus about Robinson and protests during the National Anthem. I never got around to linking it from this site, so here it is.
The History of Capitalism
I recently returned from Ithaca, NY where I presented a paper at the Histories of Capitalism, 2.0 conference. The conference, jointly hosted by several Cornell academic departments and part of the Cornell history department’s focus on studying the history of capitalism, was well run and a tremendous intellectual experience. The conference opened with a plenary…
Multi-Purpose Stadia and African American Baseball Fans
Recently, Chris Rock did a segment for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO in which he highlighted a number of reasons for the decline in interest in baseball in the African American community including the decline in the number of African American major leaguers. The concern with diminishing numbers of African American players and…
Seth S. Tannenbaum, Ph.D. 