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Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball and Literature in American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball as literary subject matter and cultural institution. Nineteen essays presented at the 2002 and 2003 ISU conferences are published in this work. The essays demonstrate that baseball continues to engage scholars like no other sports, despite the game's supposed loss of stature as the national game. A Field of Questions: W.P. Kinsella comes to Ithaca, reveals Kinsella as baseball fan and baseball writer. 'You don't play the...

The Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in American Literature and Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. This work is comprised of 18 essays from the ISU conferences of 1995 through 2001. I Just Hit.300-Time to Renegotiate My Contract explores how major American writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ellison have challenged the pastoral idea of baseball envisioned by Whitman. The Durable Relic argues that Donald Hall, one of the foremost poets of today, uses baseball in much the same way that William Butler Yeats used Irish...

The Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Eighteen essays presented at the 2004 and 2005 ISU conferences are published in this work. In "Baseball is a Place: Reflections On Building a Baseball Novel," novelist Mick Cochrane discusses writing a baseball novel, using his 2002 novel Sport to exemplify the process. Tracy Collins, in "Women, American Society, and Baseball Literature in the High Cannon," examines the ways in which canonical baseball novels are...