The Confederate Yankees
An Unlikely Baseball Story in the Deep South
In mid-century Columbus, Georgia, an unlikely baseball story offers a way into the civic life of a changing Deep South. The book looks beyond the game itself to the people, places, and symbols around a local team, considering how sport can reflect a community’s sense of itself. Baseball provides the thread, but questions of belonging, public memory, and identity give the story its wider setting. It is a local account with room for the broader history that played out beyond the ballpark.
Baseball fans will find a Southern sports story with a distinctive setting. History readers will find a way to explore community and identity through a game people cared about. You do not need to know the team beforehand: the local story offers an approachable path into the culture and changing times around it.
- Baseball and civic life in the mid-twentieth-century South
- A local team and the culture surrounding it
- Memory, symbols, and community identity
- A local story with wider cultural resonance
- The people and places behind an unusual team name
- Connections between competition, belonging, and local memory