Edwin Amenta loves baseball. He loves watching it, reading about it, writing about it, railing against it and especially playing its bastard cousin, softball. He blogs about baseball and has written articles and a book on the sport (with another on the way); the nation’s pastime has even entered his research and course offerings as a UC Irvine sociology professor. … One UCI class he teaches is Baseball in Society, which marries sociological theory with the history of the game. Because the class fulfills an upper-division writing requirement, it is popular with students, including Anteater baseball players.

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