The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture

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• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
• Altherr, Thomas L.
• Rutkoff, Peter M.
• Simons, William M.
• Hall, Alvin L.

Bibliographic Information

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture

series editor, Alvin L. Hall

McFarland, c2000-

• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003-2004
• 2005-2006
• 2007-2008
• 2009-2010
• 2011-2012
• 2013-2014

Other Title

The Cooperstown Symposium

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture

Note

Editor: 1998 Thomas L. Altherr, 1999 Peter M. Rutkoff, 2000- William M. Simons

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1998 ISBN 9780786409549

Description

This is an anthology of 20 papers that were presented at the Tenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 1998, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Commencing with a perceptive speech by keynote speaker G. Edward White, this Symposium examined such topics as whether a city can support two--not just one--major league team, how television broadcasters and their ball clubs interrelate and how masculine dominance in baseball mainly curtailed female advancement in the game and business. These essays, divided into sections titled "Baseball as a Business," "Baseball and Communication," "Baseball and Racial and Ethnic Perspectives," "Baseball and Gender Matters," "Baseball and Images" and "The 'Other' Leagues of Baseball," cut through the quick and easy judgments of the media and offer instead the longer, more informed view of scholars and researchers.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction     PART 1: BASEBALL AS A BUSINESS An Overlooked Implication of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption     From Kiner to Bunning, from Cannon to Miller, from “Players’ Group” to Players’ Union     Baseball’s Changing Salary Structure     What Constitutes a Good Baseball Town?: An Analysis of One- and Two-Team Cities     PART 2: BASEBALL AND COMMUNICATION Hired Voices: The Contract Between the Fourth Estate and Baseball     The Myth of the “Tools of Ignorance”: Why Catchers Make the Best Communicators     Baseball and Modern Leadership Theory     PART 3: BASEBALL AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC PERSPECTIVES Lazzeri to DiMaggio to Giamatti: Italian-Americans in Baseball     Baseball and the Next Generation of Americans     Baseball and Academic Outcomes: A Capstone Course     Searching for Sockalexis: Exploring the Myth at the Core of Cleveland’s “Indian” Image     PART 4: BASEBALL AND GENDER MATTERS Eros at the Bat: American Baseball and Sexuality in Historical Context     Baseball and the Women’s Question: Participation,Gender Stereotypes, and the Consumption Ethic     Women in the Stands: Feminist Learning Theories and the Appeal of Baseball     Scorecards, Scrapbooks, and Stats: Girls, Women, and the Game of Baseball     Part 5: BASEBALL AND IMAGES The Kingdom of Baseball in America: A Chronicle of an American Theology     The Melancholy of Baseball     Spalding or Spink: Who Wrote the First Standard History of Baseball?     PART 6: THE “OTHER” LEAGUES OF BASEBALL Semi-Pro Baseball: Oral Histories from the Depression through World War II     The Independent Carolina League 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws     Index     

Volume

2001 ISBN 9780786413577

Description

Papers presented at the Thirteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 2001 and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum include George Plimpton's Home Run: The Best Writing About Baseball's Most Exciting Moment; other topics are baseball books for youth, baseball and advertising, and recent efforts to establish professional women's baseball.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface (Alvin L. Hall) Introduction (William M. Simons) Part 1: Mythic Heroes Keynote Address (George Plimpton) How Thomson’s Shot Heard Round the World Changed My Life and Made Me a Hero (Oren Renick) The Right Myths at the Right Time: Myth Making and Hero Worship in Post-Frontier American Society—  Rube Waddell vs. Christy Mathewson (Alan H. Levy) Baseball’s Ethnic Heroes: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio (Joseph Dorinson) Searching for Hank Greenberg: Aviva Kempner’s Mythic Hero and Our Fathers  (William M. Simons) “Your” Bears to “Our” Bears: Race, Memory, and Baseball in Newark, New Jersey   (Robert Cvornyek) The House That Ruth Built, and Pop Opened: Negro League Baseball at Yankee Stadium (Lawrence D. Hogan) Wendell Smith’s Last Crusade: The Desegregation of Spring Training (Brian Carroll) Part 2: Media Mythology Baseball and Supernatural Intervention: Cinematic Reflections on the Crisis of Confidence in Post–World War II America (Ron Briley) The Actor as Ballplayer, the Ballplayer as Actor (George Grella) “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch” and For Love of the Game: The Perfect Game as Mythical Literature (Craig This) The Symbiosis Between Baseball and Broadcasting (Paul D. Staudohar) The Pitch: Baseball and Advertising in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Roberta Newman) Baseball Fiction for Youth (Pamela Barron and Gail Dickinson) For the Record and Lives That Mattered: American Baseball Autobiographies (Thomas L. Altherr) Baseball Haiku: Basho, the Babe, and the Great Japanese-American Trade (Edward J. Rielly) Part 3: Myth and Mystery Baseball and Freemasonry in American Culture (Charles DeMotte) Claude Hendrix: Scapegoat or the Ninth Man Out? (George M. Platt) Baseball, Transcendence, and the Return to Life (Phil Oliver) Part 4: Myths in Progress From Scientific Baseball to Sabermetrics: Professional Baseball as a Reflection of Engineering and Management in Society (Richard J. Puerzer) Youth Select Baseball in the Midwest (David C. Ogden) Labor Rights and the Restructuring of Major League Baseball, 1969–1992: A Case Study of Franchise Performance and the Myth of Baseball Management (Robert H. Jackson) Establishing Women’s Professional Baseball (Elizabeth Tempesta) Index

Volume

2003-2004 ISBN 9780786421961

Description

This is an anthology of 17 papers, eight presented at the Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in June 2003 and nine presented at the Sixteenth in June 2004. Selected from over 60 papers delivered at both symposia, the essays represent the finest scholarship from two conferences. The essays are divided into five sections. "Gender: Feminism and Masculinity on and off the Diamond" examines the relationship between baseball and gender, and includes a discussion of the rituals of brawling and a unique autobiographical account from former major league player Dan Ardell. "African Americans and the Game" studies Reconstruction-era baseball, the African American press's attitude toward the Negro Leagues, and the declining appeal of baseball for the African American community. "Other Minorities: Beyond Baseball's Melting Pot" expands on the discussion of baseball and ethnicity. "Baseball Media: Literature, Journalism, and Audiovisual Reproduction" examines baseball from the perspective of the media and popular arts and considers baseball's cultural stereotypes in film, drama, and literature. "The Business of Baseball" offers five essays on topics ranging from the foundation of the Yankees dynasty to the impact of market size on competition in the modern major leagues.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      PART I: GENDER: FEMINISM AND MASCULINITY ON AND OFF THE DIAMOND A Cup of Coffee in the Show: My Seven Games in the Majors      Cuba Libre Versus Women’s Lib: A Comparison of the Feminine Side of Baseball in Cuba and in the United States      Defending Masculinity: Brawling and the Unwritten Rules of Major League Baseball      PART II: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE GAME Bases Loaded: Race, Reconstruction, and Baseball in Washington, DC (1865–1876)      “Between Memory and History”: Black Sportswriters and the (Re)construction of Negro League Baseball      Down in the Dugout: Why Baseball Is No Longer the National Pastime for Blacks      PART III: OTHER MINORITIES: BEYOND BASEBALL'S MELTING Who Is a Jewish Baseball Player?      Constructing the Cuban Pipeline: Papa Joe Cambria Brings the Cubans to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, (1944–1945)      The Chinese Wall and Murakami, Too: The Baseball Establishment and Post-World War II Perceptions of the Asian Other      PART IV: BASEBALL MEDIA: LITERATURE, JOURNALISM, AND AUDIOVISUAL REPRODUCTION Imagining the Action: Audiovisual Baseball Game Reproductions in Richmond, Virginia (1895–1935)      Joe McCarthy and the Fourth Estate: A Window onto Baseball and Media Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century      Playing Catch Inverted: August Wilson's Fences and Other Departures from Baseball's Cultural Stereotypes      PART V: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL Yankees Profits and Promise: The Purchase of Babe Ruth and the Building of Yankee Stadium      Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball      The Kansas City Royals’ Baseball Academy: Expanding the Science and Pedagogy of Baseball      The Cost of Competitiveness in Major League Baseball      The Elements of Major League Contraction      Index     

Volume

2009-2010 ISBN 9780786435708

Description

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 is an anthology of scholarly essays that utilize the national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark and constitute a significant academic contribution to baseball literature. The essays represent sixteen of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held, respectively, on June 3-5, 2009, and June 2-4, 2010. The anthology is divided into five parts: Baseball as Culture: Dance, Literature, National Character, and Myth; Constructing Baseball Heroes; Blacks in Baseball: From Segregation to Conflicted Integration; The Enterprise of Baseball: Economics and Entrepreneurs; and Genesis and Legacy of Baseball Scholarship, which features an essay written by the co-creator of baseball scholarship, Dorothy Jane Mills.

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• NCID: BA53170170
• ISBN:
  • 0786409541
  • 0786408324
  • 0786411201
  • 0786413573
  • 0786415703
  • 0786421967
  • 9780786432127
  • 9780786435692
  • 9780786435708
  • 9780786472956
  • 9780786498895
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Jefferson, N.C.
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States Congresses
  • LCSH : Baseball -- United States -- History Congresses
  • LCSH : United States -- Social conditions Congresses