Discover baseball's role in American society
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's...

Baseball and American Culture examines the game as a mirror of American society--good and bad. Readers will learn about the struggle for racial equality in the game, the role of women, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, and more. The book's panel of contributing authors includes Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, as well as a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George...

Augustyn, a cataloger with the Library of Congress, describes toys and board games that mirror the fads and fashions defining popular culture across US history. Alphabetical entries describe toys and games and summarize toy features and game principles, from the Burp Gun, the first toy advertised on television, to the latest fast-food promotional g

Keep the information you need on playthings and pop culture at your fingertips The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture is an A-to-Z reference guide to the playthings that amused us as children and fascinate us as adults. This enlightening-and entertaining-resource, complete with cross-references, provides easy access to concise but detailed descriptions that place toys and board games in their social and cultural contexts. From action figures to yo-yos, the book is your tour guide through the museum of sought-after collectibles and forgotten treasures that mirror the...

Examines the role played by minor league baseball in hundreds of cities and towns across the US, including: economic benefits, intangible benefits, fan attachment and attendance, case studies of two Maryland minor-league franchises - the Class AA Bowi Baysox and the Class A Hagerstown Suns.

Examine the big-league benefits of minor league baseball

The Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports examines the role played by minor league baseball in hundreds of cities and towns across the United States. Written from the unique perspective of a sociologist who also happens to be an avid baseball fan, the book looks at the contributions minor league teams make to the quality of life in their communities, creating focal points for spirit and cohesiveness while providing opportunities for interaction and entertainment. The book links theory and experience...

Falk (sociology, State University College of New York) explores the social conditions and cultural implications of American football, and discovers that, football is the essence of the American spirit which has made the United States the leader of the world. He examines the college football athlete and coach, football as a profession, the psychol

Examines the social conditions and cultural implications found in the football sub-culture, represented by core values such as competition, conflict diversity, power, economic success, fair play, liberty and patriotism. patriotism.

An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radio Sports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market stations across the United States that feature an all-sports format, with a focus on the unique personalities and programming strategies that make each station successful. Broadcasters, journalists, and academics provide insight on how and why this media phenomenon has become an important influence of American culture, examining the guy talk broadcasting approach, the traditional sports-emphasis approach, HSOs (hot sports opinions), localism in...