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Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture.
Imprint:Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2000.
Descriptionx, 381 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Preface / Alvin L. Hall -- Introduction / Peter Rutkoff -- PART 1: BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION: Solarball: baseball, America, time, and the sun / George Grella -- Spirituality and baseball / Richard Robinson, Jr. -- The baseball diamon as American landscape / Stanton W. Green, Gary M. Green -- The 1913 World Series and the epic imagination / G. Ralph Strohl III -- PART 2: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE: Baseball short stories: from Lardner to Asinof to Kinsella / Paul D. Staudohar -- Reflections on baseball and poetry / Ed Ward -- Baseball and vaudeville and the development of popular culture in the United States, 1880-1930 / Richard Pioreck -- Baseball and country music / Don Cusic -- As American as apple pie: baseball and reflections of violence in the 1960s and 1970s / Ron Briley -- "Three strikes and you're out": the role of sports metaphors in political discourse / Dale A. Herbeck -- Baseball meets the national pastime: baseball and radio / Doug Battema -- PART 3: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN SOCIETY: Slide, Kelly, slide: the Irish in the early history of baseball / Richard Peterson -- "There is nothing now heard of, in our leisure hours, but ball, ball, ball": baseball and baseball-type games in the colonial era, Revolutionary War, and early American republic / Thomas L. Altherr -- Baseball as a symbiosis of interests: a survey of men and women at minor league games in the Midwest / Dave Ogden -- Joe DiMaggio and the ideal of American masculinity / William Simons -- From Bloomer girls' baseball to women's softball: a cultural journey resulting in women's exclusion from baseball / Gai Ingham Berlage -- Mixed singles: the story of Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues (a play) / Julianna Skluzacek -- PART 4: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN BUSINESS: Baseball is polluted: the modern way to spell BASEBALL: $business, $people, $collecting, the $sport and $more / Ronald P. Anjard -- Stamp out smokeless tobacco and snuff in baseball / Daniel Green -- Baseball, culture, criminal justice, and the academy / Robert P. Engvall -- The Curt Flood Act: legislative history and labor relations implications / Karen Shallcross Koziara -- PART 5: BASEBALL AND THE FAN: The fans' role in shaping baseball: a voice too long silent? / J. David Pincus, Stephen C. Wood, Fritz Cropp -- Baseball fans and the Cooperstown Symposium participants / Michael V. Miranda.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
