Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American culture, 1990

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    • Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (2nd : 1990 : Cooperstown, N.Y.)
    • Hall, Alvin L.
    • State University of New York College at Oneonta

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Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American culture, 1990

Alvin L. Hall, editor ; sponsored by the State University of New York, College at Oneonta

(Baseball and American society, 18)

Meckler in association with the State University of New York College at Oneonta, c1991

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Papers of the second symosium held June, 1990 in Cooperstown, N.Y

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Collects together papers from this conference which include research on blacks in early professional baseball, baseball fiction, salary arbitration, the Black Sox scandal, ball parks etc.

Table of Contents

  • Baseball - badge of Americanism, Harold Seymour
  • getting right with baseball, David Quentin Voigt
  • saying it ain't so - the black sox scandal in baseball fiction, Richard Gaughran
  • covering more than the game: baseball and racial issues in an African-American newspaper, 1919-1920, Bruce Lenthall
  • reverse regression and salary arbitration in major league baseball - the case for discrimination, King Banaian and Orn Bodvarsson
  • salary discrimination in major league baseball 1976-1988, Joseph W. Harder
  • W.P. Kinsella's baseball fiction, "Field of Dreams" and the new mythopoeism of baseball, Thomas L. Altherr
  • the meaning of Nolan Ryan, Nick Trujillo
  • pop culture and commercial values - baseball imagery in folk and decorative art, Shelley Mehlman Dinhofer
  • baseball in August Wilson's fences - the legacy of exclusion, Ralph M. Leary
  • the baseball parks and the American culture, Richard L. Miller
  • the baseball commissioner's public communication role - a test of leadership, J. Nicholas De Bonis, et al
  • the baseball announcer - America's "Girot", F. Scott Regan
  • five forgotten women in American baseball history - players, Lizzie Arlington, Alta Weiss, Lizzie Murphy
  • umpire, Amanda Clement, and owner, Helen Britton, Gai Ingham Berlage
  • a glorified form of rounds - baseball in Britain, February 1914, John P. Rossi
  • bottom of the ninth - a play in one act, Victor L. Cahn
  • white lines and green fields - a meditation on baseball and the West, George Grella
  • six-pointed diamonds and the ultima shiksa - baseball and the American-Jewish immigrant experience, Peter C. Bjarkman
  • knee-deep in Mudville - bonehead, goats and gophers, Michael Santa Maria and James Costello
  • black involvement in the early years of professional baseball, Mark Clark and Phil Mullen
  • aluminium bats and the purpose of baseball, Leonard O'Brian
  • green on green - baseball fiction, myth, and money, Edward J. Rielly
  • sacred baseball?, Frank Hall
  • the game of baseball as a metaphor of life, Marit Vamarasi.

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