Baseball and Cultural Heritage / edited by Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramshaw, Gregory, editor.

Gammon, Sean, editor.

Shackel, Paul A., writer of foreword.

Series:

Cultural heritage studies.

Cultural Heritage Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Social aspects.

Baseball.

Baseball--Anthropological aspects.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2022]

Summary:

Baseball's past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This volume explores the understudied side of baseball - how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.

Contents:

Introduction: People, place, and promotion; exploring the baseball/heritage relationship / Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon

Unpacking the embodied baseball spectator experience: intersections of heritage and nostalgia / Cory Kulczycki, Luke Potwarka, and Jonathon Edwards

Killing nostalgia: how Curt Flood and Henry Aaron challenged baseball nostalgia / Andrew McGregor

Women's baseball: a story not told / Leslie Heaphy

Physical reminders of empowerment: heritage, baseball stadia, and African American communities / Benjamin J. Downs and Adam G. Pfleegor

The historicization of a heritage icon: the three ages of Oriole Park at Camden Yards / Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon

American baseball museums and the politics of the meta-narrative / Kiernan O. Gordon

Baseball heritage in Japan: a case of the Masters Koshien / Eiji Ito, Kei Hikoji, and Makoto Chogahara

Exploring the heritage of baseball in South Korea: the story of regionalism and nationalism / Jungah Choi

The "Gaijin Revolution" in Brazil: a Japanese baseball heritage at risk? / Felipe Bertazzo Tobar

Carribean series baseball heritage with diasporic, economic, and political implications / Thomas E. Van Hyning

"Our very own 'field of dreams' in England's green and pleasant land": baseball and heritage in Britain / Brett Lashua

Movable, removable, or immovable? Baseball statues and ballpark relocation / Chris Stride

Chewing gum, cracker jack, and crab cakes: considering baseball's food heritage / Alana N. Seaman

Extra innings: a conclusion; Baseball and heritage in times of change / Sean Gammon and Gregory Ramshaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 24, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ramshaw, Gregory Baseball and Cultural Heritage

ISBN:

9780813067483

0813067480

9780813070216

081307021X

OCLC:

1344536948