The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999

by Peter M. Rutkoff

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786408320
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	06/16/2000
Series:	Cooperstown Symposium Series , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	391
Sales rank:	317,250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Editor Peter M. Rutkoff directs the American Studies program and was the National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished teaching professor of history and American studies, 1997–2000, at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. They are also the editors of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1997 (Jackie Robinson) (2000).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface      
Introduction     

PART 1: BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
Solarball: Baseball, America, Time, and the Sun     
Spirituality and Baseball     
The Baseball Diamond as American Landscape     
The 1913 World Series and the Epic Imagination     

PART 2: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE
Baseball Short Stories: From Lardner to Asinof to Kinsella     
Reflections on Baseball and Poetry     
Baseball and Vaudeville and the Development of Popular Culture in the United States
Baseball and Country Music     
As American as Cherry Pie: Baseball and Reflections of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s
“Three Strikes and You’re Out”: The Role of Sports Metaphors in Political Discourse     
Baseball Meets the National Pastime: Baseball and Radio     

PART 3: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Irish in the Early History of Baseball     
Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic
Baseball as a Symbiosis of Interests: A Survey of Men and Women at Minor League Games in the Midwest     
Joe DiMaggio and the Ideal of American Masculinity     
From Bloomer Girls’ Baseball to Women’s Softball: A Cultural Journey Resulting in Women’s Exclusion from Baseball     
Mixed Singles: The Story of Ella Manley and the Negro Leagues (A Play)     

PART 4: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN BUSINESS
The Modern Way to Spell Baseball: $Business, $People, $Collecting, the $Sport and $More     
Stamp Out Smokeless Tobacco and Snuff in Baseball     
Baseball, Culture, Criminal Justice, and the Academy     
The Curt Flood Act: Legislative History and Labor Relations Implications     

PART 5: BASEBALL AND THE
The Fans' Role in Shaping Baseball: A Voice Too Long Silent?     
Baseball Fans and the Cooperstown Symposium Participants     

Index     

Editorial Reviews

reprints of scholarly papers covering baseball’s relation to American society, business and its fan base”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “put this on your list of reflective essays worth every minute”—Public Library Quarterly; “ambitious...appealing...each selection provides overall provocative and engaging discussions over a variety of topics of both historical and contemporary importance to the game”—Sociology of Sport Journal.

From the Publisher

"ambitious...appealing...each selection provides overall provocative and engaging discussions over a variety of topics of both historical and contemporary importance to the game"

Sociology of Sport Journal

put this on your list of reflective essays worth every minute

Public Library Quarterly

reprints of scholarly papers covering baseball's relation to American society, business and its fan base

USA Today Sports Weekly