This text is an anthology of 14 papers that were presented at the Ninth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. These papers focus on Robinson, baseball and race relations and are divided into three parts.
This text is an anthology of 14 papers that were presented at the Ninth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. These papers focus on ...
This text is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. The papers focus on the antecendents of baseball and the early history of American's national pastime.
This text is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. The papers focus on...
This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 7-9, 2000, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 7-9, 2000, and co-...
The 14th annual conference held to coincide with the Baseball Hall of Fame awards in Cooperstown, New York explores the games myths, legends and tall tales. The papers discuss mythic heros, media mythology, myth and mystery, and myths in progress.
The 14th annual conference held to coincide with the Baseball Hall of Fame awards in Cooperstown, New York explores the games myths, legends and tall ...
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....
This is an anthology of 17 papers, eight presented at the Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in June 2003 and nine prese...
Essays in the first of the volume's six sections, ?The African American Experience, ? examine Negro League playing styles as cultural expression, media coverage of Curt Flood's battle against MLB, and autobiographical accounts by Flood and Jackie Robinson that recall slave-narrative tradition. In ?The Women's Game? the legacy of Title IX is explored, along with gender constructions at the time of the AAGPBL. Teams and their towns are the focus of ?Baseball and Community.? In ?Baseball Ideology? the game's films, wartime rhetoric, and the approaches to its ethnic history are investigated....
Essays in the first of the volume's six sections, ?The African American Experience, ? examine Negro League playing styles as cultural expression, medi...