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1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Baseball and culture -- "When Homer smote his bloomin' lyre" : some observations on sportswriting / Roger Kahn -- Safe at home : forging intergenerational alliances / C. Oren Renick -- "Jesus is standing at the home plate" : baseball and American Christianity / Gregory Erickson -- Physical literacy in baseball and other sports / Robert Ochsner -- A flexible metaphor : baseball in the classroom / Michelle Jones -- "Walter Johnson" by Jonathan Richman : the portrait of a hero in song / Richard J. Puerzer -- pt. 2. Baseball as history -- "This town isn't big enough for both of us" : politics, economics, and local rivalries in St. Louis Major League Baseball / Roger D. Launius -- Baseball during World War II : an exploration of the issue / Gerald Bazer and Steven Culbertson -- Game in sepiatone and soft focus : nostalgia and American baseball in historical context / Thomas L. Altherr -- pt. 3 Business of baseball -- Major league umpires and collective bargaining / Karen Shallcross Koziara -- Customer discrimination in memorabilia : new evidence for Major League Baseball / Rhonda Sharpe and Sumner La Croix -- Despoiling the sleeve : the threat of corporate advertising upon the integrity of the major league uniform / Ken Moon -- pt. 4. Race, gender, and ethnicity in the national pastime -- Houston's Latin star Cesar Cedeno and death in the Dominican Republic : the troubled legacy of race relations in the Lone Star State [Texas] / Ron Briley -- Comparative ethnicity : Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg / William Simons -- Baseball in the Ocean State : Rhode Island Black baseball, 1886-1948 / Lawrence D. Hogan and Jeffrey L. Statts -- "She loved baseball" : Effa Manley and Negro League baseball / Amy Essington -- Black players on the field of dreams : African American baseball in film / George Grella -- "I haven't got ballplayers. I've got girls" : portrayals of women in baseball film / Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
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Baseball -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Baseball -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Baseball. |
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History. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Alvin L.
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Simons, William M.
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| Spine Title |
Cooperstown Symposium, 2000 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (12th : 2000 : Cooperstown, N.Y.). Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American culture, 2000 0786411201 (OCoLC)47776836 |
| ISBN |
9780786481705 electronic book |
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0786481706 electronic book |
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0786411201 |
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9780786411207 |
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