Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs

STEVEN A. REISS is professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era (1980, rev. ed., 1999), City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (1989), and Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1995), and has edited several books including Sports and the American Jew (1998. He edited the Journal of Sport History from 1985-1992, and is the editor of the series "Sports and Entertainment" for Syracuse University Press. He is co-director of the Chicago seminar on Sports and Culture.Riess, Steven is the author of 'Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780313329913 and ISBN 0313329915.