Baseball/literature/culture : essays, 2008-2009 / edited by Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey; foreword by John N. McDaniel.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kates, Ronald E.

Tormey, Warren.

Conference Name:

Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture (2008)

Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture (2009)

Series:

Baseball in Literature and American Culture Conference Series

Baseball in Literature and American Culture Conference Series ; v.5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Baseball in literature.

Baseball stories, American--History and criticism.

Baseball stories, American.

Baseball--United States.

Baseball.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences are published in the present work. Topics covered include religion; class and racial dichotomies in the literature of cricket and baseball; re-reading The Natural in the 21st century; the feminist movement; Don DeLillo's Game 6; baseball in Seinfeld; Robert B. Parker; Harry Stein's Hoopla; Negro league owner Tom Wilson's impact on Nashville; Major League Baseball's postwar boom; and overwrought baseba

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; I. Baseball in Scholarly and Spiritual Contexts; Baseball Studies; Proselytizing Pastime; "Blasphemous Youths" and Sunday Baseball; II. Baseball in Cultural and Literary Contexts; What's "Not Cricket" Ain't Necessarily Baseball Either; "Minds of Fleetful Thoughts"; Staging a Feminist Movement in Baseball; Baseball at the D.C. Diamond; Re-Reading The Natural in the 21st Century; "An Offense Against Memory"; "What the Hell Did You Trade Jay Buhner For?"; Hard-Boiled Baseball; Change of a Nation; Putting the Ball Cap on James Joyce

The Inevitable Last PitchIII. Fiction; Politics as Usual; A Wicked Curve; IV. Baseball in Historical and Reflective Contexts; The Day The Part-Timers Were Champions; The Contributions of Tom Wilson; Pumpsie Green; When Every Mudville Joined a League; How to Write a Great Baseball Story; Nothing's Wrong with Baseball; What Baseball Makes; About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-53200-6

9786612532009

0-7864-5673-6