Ah, Baseball…Number 42; Chicago Black Sox; the Boys of October; America’s “Second National Anthem”; the Babe; doping; lock-outs; the stand-up triple, three-up-and-three-down, walk-off homer; Cracker Jacks and cold ones; Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own, Pride of the Yankees. America’s Baseball’s history provides a point of entry into American culture, American values, and, American dreams. For students, there is no better way to understand the creation and destruction of the color and gender lines in twentieth-century America than to draw examples from the history of race and gender in sports, a history which is now richly documented in biographies, historical works, speeches, and textual film. Scholars acknowledge that an examination of sports can be instrumental in raising important themes in American history. Baseball’s history provides a point of entry into American culture.