Professor David Faflik has written a revisionist history of the Boston Busing Crisis of the 1970s. Titled Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation, Faflik’s book resorts to the disciplines of popular cultural studies, sports studies, and “play” to provide a fresh examination of a controversial era in New England life from the perspective of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox. Commentators have had much to say about the politics and policies involved with busing in the fifty years since a federal court in Boston announced its plan to racially integrate the city’s public schools beginning in the fall of 1974. Faflik’s work addresses the impact that the Boston Red Sox organization and their fans had on the regional complications of race in the aftermath of the landmark phase of the Civil Rights era. Situated at the intersection of U.S. cultural and social history, Segregation Games examines the surprising ties in 1970s Boston between the racial segregation of the city’s public education sector and the racial controversies that were then finding expression on and off the field of “Red Sox Nation.”