The National Pastime: Baseball in Texas and Beyond (2025)
- Editor’s Note: The National Pastime 2025
Steve West - Deadball Era Major League Baseball Comes to Waxahachie, Texas
Jim Chapman - Spring Training Ballparks at Marlin, Texas: Early Twentieth Century Major League Baseball in a Central Texas Town
Monte Cely - The 1919 Texas Negro Baseball League Championship: Dallas Black Giants vs. San Antonio Black Aces
Bill Staples Jr. - Nokona Baseball Gloves: America’s Pastime, American Made
Joseph Wancho - From Athens, Texas, to the Cincinnati Reds: The Saga of Pete Donohue
Steve Krevisky - Semipro and Collegiate Baseball in Enid, Oklahoma
Thomas E. Van Hyning - The 1943 Camp Hood Baseball Season
Andrew Jett - Baseball in the Middle of Nowhere: The Unique Story of Herbert Kokernot and the Alpine Cowboys
C. Paul Rogers III - Four Hundred Hitters, Home Run Barrages, and Jim Crow: The Post-War Bush Leagues in Texas, 1946-61
C. Paul Rogers III - When the Babe Came to Dallas, 1947
Bob LeMoine - Bobby Layne, 28-0: Hall of Fame Caliber Pitcher for the Texas Longhorns
Herm Krabbenhoft - Integration Comes to the Texas League: 1952-58
Alan Cohen - The ‘Savior’ Does Not Answer Letters: Dave Hoskins and the Uneven, Unheralded, and Unfinished Integration of the Texas League
Jason A. Schwartz - Waco Pirates: A Tale of Two Cities
Eric Bynum - How the Metroplex Went Major League
John Bauer - An Encounter with Cliff Gustafson
Charlie Grassl - All-Stars and Orphans: Over A Half Century of Rangers Relief Pitching
Wayne M. Towers - Jack Allen: Baseball in the Land of ‘Gushers’ and Cowboys
Jarrod D. Schenewark - A Day from Hell at the Office: Lenny Randle’s Attack on Frank Lucchesi Created Wounds That Never Healed
Daniel VanDeMortel - Oklahoma State Cowboy Baseball: The Remarkable Gary Ward Years
Ronald Elliott and Wade McWhorter - Boos to Cheers: Darrell Porter and the 1982 World Series
Doug Wedge - Jimmy Porter: A Man or a Legend?
Steve West - Southwest Conference Baseball History
Bo Carter - Abigail Moore: Breaking Barriers
Leslie Heaphy and Cecilia M. Tan - Did the Texas Rangers Buy a World Series?
Josh West - Appendix: The 1943 Camp Hood Baseball Season
Andrew Jett - Appendix: Bobby Layne, 28-0: Hall of Fame Caliber Pitcher for the Texas Longhorns
Herm Krabbenhoft