The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999Peter M. Rutkoff McFarland, 16.06.2000 - 391 Seiten This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 9-11, 1999, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The papers focus on the antecedents of baseball and the early history of America's national pastime and are divided into five parts: "Baseball and the American Imagination," "Baseball and American Culture," "Baseball and American Society," "Baseball and American Business" and "Baseball and the Fan." The preface is by series editor Alvin L. Hall, and an introduction is provided by the editor of the volume, Peter M. Rutkoff. |
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Spirituality and Baseball | 23 |
World Series and the Epic Imagination | 41 |
From Lardner to Asinof to Kinsella | 59 |
Reflections on Baseball and Poetry | 73 |
Baseball and Vaudeville and the Development of Popular | 83 |
Baseball and Country Music | 101 |
Baseball and Reflections | 115 |
The Role of Sports | 133 |
A Survey of Men | 215 |
Joe DiMaggio and the Ideal of American Masculinity | 227 |
The Story of Effa Manley and the Negro | 261 |
The Modern Way to Spell BASEBALL | 281 |
Stamp Out Smokeless Tobacco and Snuff in Baseball | 289 |
Baseball Culture Criminal Justice and the Academy | 297 |
Legislative History and Labor Relations | 313 |
A Voice Too Long Silent? | 333 |
Baseball and Radio | 147 |
The Irish in the Early History of Baseball | 177 |
There Is Nothing Now Heard of in Our Leisure Hours | 187 |
Baseball Fans and the Cooperstown Symposium Participants | 357 |
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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999 Alvin L. Hall,Peter M. Rutkoff Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2000 |
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