James T. Farrell and BaseballJames T. Farrell and Baseball is a social history of baseball on Chicagos South Side, drawing on the writings of novelist James T. Farrell along with historical sources. Charles DeMotte shows how baseball in the early decades of the twentieth century developed on all levels and in all areas of Chicago, Americas second largest city at the time, and how that growth intertwined with Farrells development as a fan and a writer who used baseball as one of