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From the book: Thach used his slight height advantage to roll into a beam run on the Nakajima's right side. He powered the F4F in low and steady, allowing himself the best chance of striking the target. Breath held, he anticipated the aircraft crossing in front of his plane's nose and prepared the deflection shot. His finger squeezed the trigger a fraction of a second before his prey zipped past. Flickering streams of .50-caliber tracers arced gracefully through the air, curving into the target streaking by. Staccato ropes of steel-jacketed lead ripped into the Nakajima's uncovered fuselage,...

This is an anthology of 17 papers, eight presented at the Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in June 2003 and nine presented at the Sixteenth in June 2004. Selected from over 60 papers delivered at both symposia, the essays represent the finest scholarship from two conferences. The essays are divided into five sections. "Gender: Feminism and Masculinity on and off the Diamond" examines the relationship between baseball and gender, and includes a discussion of the rituals of brawling and a unique autobiographical account from former major league player Dan Ardell....