In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional
baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up
sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, and he
knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he
came of age in baseball's Minor Leagues through experiences ranging
from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming
conscious of race and class for the first time. Playing with Tigers
is not a typical baseball memoir. Now a well-known anthropologist,
Gmelch recounts a baseball education unlike any other as he got to
know small-town life across the United States against the backdrop
of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of
counterculture. The social and political turmoil of the times
spilled into baseball, and Gmelch experienced the consequences
firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South.
Playing with Tigers immerses the reader in the life of the Minor
Leagues, capturing the gritty, insular, and humorous life and
culture of Minor League baseball during a period when both the
author and the country were undergoing profound changes.
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