Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (1989)
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Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (1989)
（Baseball and American society, 17）
Meckler in association with the State University of New York College at Oneonta, c1991
1st ed
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Papers of the first symposium held June 8-9, 1989
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture held in 1989. Baseball was discussed in conjunction with art, history, literature, geography, sociology, philosophy and ethnicity.
Table of Contents
- Alexander Cleland and the origin of the baseball hall of fame, James A.Vlasich
- opening address, Marty Appel
- baseball novels from Gil Gamesh to Babe Ragland to Sidd Finch, Peter C.Bjarkman
- a swing and a myth - the persistence of baseball in the American imagination, Thomas L.Altherr
- the grand game of baseball - baseball as art - the art of baseball, Shelly M.Dinhofer
- out of left field - baseball and American idiom, Maggi E.Sololik
- socio-cultural history of the origin of women's baseball at the Eastern women's colleges during the Victorian period, Gai I.Berlage
- black in baseball - an historical perspective, 1867-1988, Phil Mullen and Mark Clark
- recent baseball fiction - an intellectual odyssey, J.Michael Llich
- putting yourself in your place, or the decline of local beers, metro-politan newspapers, and passenger trains and the resurgence of minor league baseball, Paul L.Gaston
- the geography of major league baseball player production, 1876-1988, Carl F.Ojala and Michael T.Gadwood
- farmers, orphans, and cultists - pastoral characters and themes in baseball fiction, Richard Gaughran
- from dreams to diamonds to dictionaries - baseball as acculturating force, Linda Kittell
- an examination of professional baseball players as heroes and role models, Monty E.Nielsen and George W.Schubert
- time for heroes - a dramatistic analysis of baseball novels in the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Canapa
- baseball and the reconstitution of American masculinity, 1880-1920, Michael S.Kimmel
- working at the ballpark - an ethnographic study, Nick Trujillo
- Shakespeare at Bat, Euclid on the field - etymological history of some terms in baseball, Robert Moynihan
- the country of the young - teh meaning of baseball in early American culture, Ronald Story
- you can blame the media - the roel of the press in creating baseball villains, Peter Williams.
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