Books reviewed: High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment, by Timothy Jon Curry, Kent Schwirian, and Rachael A. Woldoff. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. xiv, 184 pp. Protecting Home: Class, Race and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball, by Sherri Grasmuck. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN: 0813535557 (paper). Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality edited by David P. Varady. State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pages + xix Mobilizing an Asian American Community, by Linda Trinh Võ. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 304 pp. ISBM: 1‐59213‐262‐6 (paper). Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis. New York: Verso, 2006. 228 pp. ISBN: 1844670228 (cloth). Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy, by J. Phillip Thompson, III. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 360 pp. ISBN: 0195177339 (cloth).