The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 / edited by William M. Simons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simons, William M.

Series:

Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture.

Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture, 1536-1195

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Social aspects--United States.

Baseball.

Baseball--United States--History.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

pt. 1. Baseball as culture : dance, literature, national character, and myth

pt. 2. Constructing baseball heroes

pt. 3. Blacks in baseball : from segregation to conflicted integration

pt. 4. The enterprise of baseball : economics and entrepreneuers

pt. 5. The genesis and legacy of baseball scholarship.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-01881-0

9786613018816

0-7864-8631-7

OCLC:

707067776