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Performing Deadball - Travis Stern. Ballplayers on Stage: Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024. 248 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781621908821.

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Travis Stern. Ballplayers on Stage: Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024. 248 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781621908821.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2025

David Monod
David Monod*
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Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2025 , pp. 243 - 245
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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1 Bill Francis, “Slippery Elm and the Spitball,” https://baseballhall.org/discover/shortstops/slippery-elm-and-the-spitball (accessed Nov. 26, 2024).

2 Niese, Joe, Burleigh Grimes: Baseball’s Last Legal Spitballer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013).Google Scholar

3 Singer, Ben, Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).Google Scholar