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George Gmelch

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George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College. He is the author of a dozen books, including the memoir Playing With Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties. He played minor league baseball in the Detroit Tigers organization in the 1960s, and in 1997, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minor League Baseball Association for his writings on baseball.

  • Stranger Lands

    The Detroit Tigers have held their spring training at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida, for more than 50 years. Baseball culture has changed a great deal over the last half-century.

    The New Old National Pastime

    A onetime minor league baseball player turned anthropologist conducts interviews at his former spring-training camp—and discovers how playing ball has changed.

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