The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2002 / edited with an introduction by Peter M. Rutkoff.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rutkoff, Peter M., editor, writer of introduction.

Conference Name:

Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (2002 : Cooperstown, N.Y.), issuing body.

Series:

Cooperstown Symposium Series

Cooperstown Symposium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Economic aspects--United States--Congresses.

Baseball.

Baseball--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.

Baseball--United States--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Compny, Incorporated, Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

This anthology contains eclectic essays delivered in Cooperstown at the 2002 Symposium. Subsequent to initial presentation, papers were revised and edited for publication. The anthology is divided into five parts: Timebend: Baseball as History; The Business of Baseball; Race: Soul of the Game; Baseball Media: Literature, Journalism, and Cinema; and Baseball Culture: Age, Sexuality, and Religion. Timebends: Baseball as History ruminates on the lingering resonance of the game's past. The Business of Baseball examines sport from a commercial perspective. Race: Soul of the Game chronicles the Afri

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface (Alvin L. Hall); Introduction (William M. Simons); Part 1: Timebends: Baseball as History; Keynote Address: Baseball Lives in the Depression Era (Charles C. Alexander); Country Baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1867-1921 (Martin Payne); Pitcher at Twilight: Bill Monbouquette and the American Dream (William M. Simons); The Segregation of Professional Baseball in Kansas, 1895-1899: A Case Study in the Rise of Jim Crow During the Gilded Age (Gregory Bond); Part 2: The Business of Baseball

Engineering Baseball: Branch Rickey's Innovative Approach to Baseball Management (Richard J. Puerzer)The Pitch Men: Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr. (Roberta Newman); Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations (Paul D. Staudohar); Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since 1985 (Brian O'Roark and G. Dirk Mateer); Part 3: Race: Soul of the Game; In the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers (Ron Briley)

Jim Crows of a Feather: A Comparison of the Segregation and Desegregation Eras in Professional Baseball and Football (Alan H. Levy)The Social Significance of Sport: Implications for Race and Baseball (Doris R. Corbett and Wayne Patterson); Blacks in Baseball: Up from Neglect to Center Stage (Joseph Dorinson); Part 4: Baseball Media: Literature, Journalism, and Cinema; Baseball and Ernest Hemingway (Peter W. Dowell and Lee A. Pederson); The Black Press and the Integration of Baseball: When to Stop the Cheering (Brian Carroll)

Portrayals of Racial Minorities in Baseball Films (Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most)When New York Was the Capital of Baseball: Remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune (Oren Renick); Types and Archetypes: The Characters of Baseball (George Grella); The Changing Language of Baseball Writers in Historical Context, 1900-2001 (Arline F. Schubert and George W. Schubert); Part 5: Baseball Culture: Age, Sexuality, and Religion; On Being Gay in Major League Baseball (Russell Hollander)

When Baseball Players Wore Skirts: The Promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (Andi Stein)Baseball Heroes and Femme Fatales (Charles DeMotte); Baseball and Its Appeal to Older Americans (David C. Ogden and Michael L. Hilt); Believing in Baseball: The Religious Power of Our National Pastime (Thomas F. Dailey); Theology and Celebrity: How Celebrity Affects the Practice of Faith in Baseball (Peggy Beck); Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 9, 2016).

ISBN:

0-7864-8171-4