This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Essays included employ the national pastime to comment on issues transcending the playing field, and are divided into six sections: "Cultural Perspectives on the Game," "Literary Baseball," "Baseball at the Movies," "Minority Standard Bearers," "New Leagues," and "The Business of Baseball."
This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Essays included employ the national pastime to comment on issues transcending the playing field, and are divided into six sections: "Cultural Perspectives on the Game," "Literary Baseball," "Baseball at the Movies," "Minority Standard Bearers," "New Leagues," and "The Business of Baseball."
William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York-Oneonta.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction William M. Simons PART I: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE GAME The Baseball Reliquary: The Left Coast's Alternative to Interpreting Baseball History Jean Hastings Ardell Durocher as Machiavelli: Bad Catholic, Good American Jeffrey Marlett PART II: LITERARY BASEBALL Homecoming: Family, Place, and Community in Sara Vogan's In Shelly's Leg and Thomas Oliphant's Praying for Gil Hodges Thomas Wolf Now Batting-Peter Pan: Jim Bouton's Ball Four and Baseball's Boyish Culture Elizabeth V. O'Connell "Chasing Moonlight" Through Fiction, Film, and Fact: The Evolution of a Biography Brett Friedlander and R.W. Reising PART III: BASEBALL AT THE MOVIES Patriot's Game? Images of American Nationalism in Baseball Films Robert Rudd and Marshall Most The Dark Side of the American Dream: Ron Shelton's Cobb Ron Briley PART IV: MINORITY STANDARD BEARERS No Dummies: Deafness, Baseball, and American Culture R.A.R. Edwards Asians and Baseball: The Breaking and Perpetuating of Stereotypes Terumi Rafferty-Osaki PART V: NEW LEAGUES Building a League One Dollar at a Time: The Story of the Immediate Success of the American League Michael J. Haupert and Kenneth Winter The Israel Baseball League and the Jewish Diaspora William M. Simons PART VI: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL Baseball's Ultimate Umpires: Labor Arbitration in Our National Game Roger I. Abrams Taxing the Fan Who Catches the Ball: Looking Back on Record-Breakers, the 1998 Season and the IRS's Turn at the Plate Patricia L. Bryan The Role of Agents in Baseball Paul D. Staudohar The Brave Departure Michael Civille The Great Dodgers Pitching Tandem Strikes a Blow for Salaries: The 1966 Drysdale-Koufax Holdout and Its Impact on the Game Ed Edmonds Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction William M. Simons PART I: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE GAME The Baseball Reliquary: The Left Coast's Alternative to Interpreting Baseball History Jean Hastings Ardell Durocher as Machiavelli: Bad Catholic, Good American Jeffrey Marlett PART II: LITERARY BASEBALL Homecoming: Family, Place, and Community in Sara Vogan's In Shelly's Leg and Thomas Oliphant's Praying for Gil Hodges Thomas Wolf Now Batting-Peter Pan: Jim Bouton's Ball Four and Baseball's Boyish Culture Elizabeth V. O'Connell "Chasing Moonlight" Through Fiction, Film, and Fact: The Evolution of a Biography Brett Friedlander and R.W. Reising PART III: BASEBALL AT THE MOVIES Patriot's Game? Images of American Nationalism in Baseball Films Robert Rudd and Marshall Most The Dark Side of the American Dream: Ron Shelton's Cobb Ron Briley PART IV: MINORITY STANDARD BEARERS No Dummies: Deafness, Baseball, and American Culture R.A.R. Edwards Asians and Baseball: The Breaking and Perpetuating of Stereotypes Terumi Rafferty-Osaki PART V: NEW LEAGUES Building a League One Dollar at a Time: The Story of the Immediate Success of the American League Michael J. Haupert and Kenneth Winter The Israel Baseball League and the Jewish Diaspora William M. Simons PART VI: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL Baseball's Ultimate Umpires: Labor Arbitration in Our National Game Roger I. Abrams Taxing the Fan Who Catches the Ball: Looking Back on Record-Breakers, the 1998 Season and the IRS's Turn at the Plate Patricia L. Bryan The Role of Agents in Baseball Paul D. Staudohar The Brave Departure Michael Civille The Great Dodgers Pitching Tandem Strikes a Blow for Salaries: The 1966 Drysdale-Koufax Holdout and Its Impact on the Game Ed Edmonds Index
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