| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

George B. Kirsch. Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 145. $19.95.

George B. Kirsch's book on mid-nineteenth-century baseball has a sharp focus that encompasses the Civil War years and the half-decades preceding and following the war. Readers of the title and viewers of the dust jacket's period illustrations (baseball games in an army camp and in a prisoner-of-war camp) should be sure to note the book's subtitle. Kirsch provides extensive detail not only about ball-playing soldiers but also about baseball developments away from the battlefields. As Kirsch explains in his preface, he sets out (and succeeds) to narrate and analyze "the growth and transformation of baseball in the United States during the Civil War" and to examine "the relationship between the sport and American nationalism during that tumultuous time" (p. ix).

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