Title Baseball/literature/culture : essays, 2008-2009 / edited by Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey ; foreword by John N. McDaniel.

Publication Info.	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 235 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Baseball in Literature and American Culture Conference Series ; v. 5
	Baseball in Literature and American Culture Conference Series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; I. Baseball in Scholarly and Spiritual Contexts; Baseball Studies; Proselytizing Pastime; "Blasphemous Youths" and Sunday Baseball; II. Baseball in Cultural and Literary Contexts; What's "Not Cricket" Ain't Necessarily Baseball Either; "Minds of Fleetful Thoughts"; Staging a Feminist Movement in Baseball; Baseball at the D.C. Diamond; Re-Reading The Natural in the 21st Century; "An Offense Against Memory"; "What the Hell Did You Trade Jay Buhner For?"; Hard-Boiled Baseball; Change of a Nation; Putting the Ball Cap on James Joyce.
	The Inevitable Last PitchIII. Fiction; Politics as Usual; A Wicked Curve; IV. Baseball in Historical and Reflective Contexts; The Day The Part-Timers Were Champions; The Contributions of Tom Wilson; Pumpsie Green; When Every Mudville Joined a League; How to Write a Great Baseball Story; Nothing's Wrong with Baseball; What Baseball Makes; About the Contributors; Index.
Summary	The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences are published in the present work. Topics covered include religion; class and racial dichotomies in the literature of cricket and baseball; re-reading The Natural in the 21st century; the feminist movement; Don DeLillo's Game 6; baseball in Seinfeld; Robert B. Parker; Harry Stein's Hoopla; Negro league owner Tom Wilson's impact on Nashville; Major League Baseball's postwar boom; and overwrought baseba.
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Subject	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	Baseball in literature.
	Baseball in literature.
	Baseball stories, American -- History and criticism.
	Baseball stories, American.
	Baseball -- United States.
	Baseball.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author	Kates, Ronald E.
	Tormey, Warren.
	Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture (2008)
	Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture (2009)
Other Form:	Print version: Baseball/literature/culture. Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., ©2010 9780786436811 (DLC) 2009051821 (OCoLC)492091376
ISBN	9780786456734 (electronic book)
	0786456736 (electronic book)
	0786436816 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780786436811 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780786436811 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No.	9786612532009

Title Baseball/literature/culture : essays, 2008-2009 / edited by Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey ; foreword by John N. McDaniel.

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