On fall Saturdays, the sold-out football stadium at the University of Nebraska resembles a vast scarlet sea, with 80,000-plus fans cheering for the five-time national champion Cornhuskers.

By contrast, Nebraska’s baseball stadium accommodates 8,500 spectators. The team has never won the College World Series, and its most famous former player may be Joba Chamberlain of the Yankees.

But through the university’s nonprofit publishing wing, the pulse of baseball beats strongly in the heart of Cornhusker Nation.

From offices about a mile off campus, in the shadows of the state capitol in Lincoln, the University of Nebraska Press and its imprint, Bison Books, publish four to eight books a year for the hard-core hardball fan. Via its partnership with the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR, Nebraska also distributes the organization’s wonkish publications, The National Pastime and The Baseball Research Journal.