Publications

• Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of ’82 by J. Daniel, Journal of Sport History, 50, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 433-434.

• Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports, by Clayton Trutor, The Journal of Southern History 88, no. 4, (November 2022): 810-811.

• Boomtown Columbus: Ohio’s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way by Kevin R. Cox, Indiana Magazine of History 118, no. 3 (September 2022): 237-238.

• The Prehistories of Baseball by Seelochan Beharry, Journal of Sport History 44, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 485-486.

• The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League by Robert B. Ross, The International Journal of the History of Sport 34, no. 3-4 (2017): 292-293.

• “African American Newspapers Series I and II” by Readex, Black Ball: New Research in African American Baseball History 9 (2017): 143-145.

• Baseball’s New Frontier: A History of Expansion, 1961-1998 by Fran Zimniuch, Sport in History 37, no 2 (2017): 240-241.

• The Hunt for a Reds October: Cincinnati in 1990 by Charles F. Faber and Zachariah Webb, Journal of Sport History 43, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 345-346.

• A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany by Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke, Strategic Visions 14, no. II (Spring 2015): 3-4.

• The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia by Matthew Delmont, European Journal of American Culture 34, no. 1 (March 2015): 86-88.

Encyclopedia Entries, Short Articles, Online Reviews, and Op-Eds:

• “Major League Baseball’s Historical Quest to Entice Middle- and Upper-Class Fans to the Park,” in Process: A Blog for American History, October 15, 2024.

• “Rachel and Jackie Robinson and Housing Discrimination in Connecticut,” in Black Perspectives, December 6, 2023.
  
  
• “Sport in America: A Reading List,” in JSTOR Daily, September 6, 2023.
  
  

• “This Jackie Robinson Day, Let’s Celebrate Rachel Robinson, Too,” in Made by History at the Washington Post, April 15, 2022.

• “Phillies Must Do More to Diversify Their Lineup,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 7, 2022.

• “The History of the Centennial District,” in Preserve Edgely.

• “A Vital Contribution to the History of Baseball,” review of Biz Mackey, A Giant Behind the Plate: The Story of the Negro League Star and Hall of Fame Catcher by Rich Westcott, in Write Now Philly, May 18, 2020.

• “An Excellent and Important Analysis of Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia,” review of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics by Timothy J. Lombardo, in Write Now Philly, January 22, 2020.

• “The Unbearable Whiteness of Paul Goldberger’s Ballpark,” in Tropics of Meta, July 22, 2019.

• “Fans of All Races and Genders Love Baseball. Teams Need to Start Treating Them Equally,” in Made by History at the Washington Post, March 28, 2019.

• “The Class Divisions Destroying Opening Day: New Safety Measures Signal the Growing Inequality at Ballparks,” in Made by History at the Washington Post, March 29, 2018.

• “Kids Cheer Free: A History of Putting Kids in the Cheap Seats,” in Sport in American History, March 29, 2018.

• “Athletes are Fighting For Equality. They Shouldn’t Ignore Their Own Sports,” in Made by History at the Washington Post, October 26, 2017.

• “Jackie Robinson’s Long Fight Against Discrimination,” in Weekend Caucus April 15, 2017.

• “Philadelphia Sports Fans,” in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.

• “Advertisers and the Imagined Ballpark Experience,” in Front & Center: The Newsletter of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History vol. 22, no. 1 (Summer 2016).