The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010

Synopsis

The Cooperstown Symposium On Baseball And American Culture, 2009-2010 Is An Anthology Of Scholarly Essays That Utilize The National Game To Examine Topics Whose Import Extends Beyond The Ballpark And Constitute A Significant Academic Contribution To Baseball Literature. The Essays Represent Sixteen Of The Leading Presentations From The Two Most Recent Proceedings Of The Annual Cooperstown Symposium On Baseball And American Culture, Held, Respectively, On June 3-5, 2009, And June 2-4, 2010. Pt. I. Baseball As Culture : Dance, Literature, National Character, And Myth -- Plié Ball! Baseball In American Dance / Jeff Katz -- On The Brink : Babe Ruth In Dennis Lehane's The Given Day / Patricia L. Bryan, Thomas Wolf -- The Golem, The Rabbi, And That Long-sought Hebrew Star : Jews In 1920s Baseball / William M. Simons -- The Crowd Began To Shout 'atta Boy,' With A Lancashire Accent : The English Response To Baseball Exhibition Games In The Early 20th Century / Beth Hise -- The Little Lefty : Southpaw Perceptions And Reality / Wayne Patterson -- Pt. Ii. Constructing Baseball Heroes -- Ty Cobb And The Culture Of Honor / Steve Tripp -- The Sinner And The Saint : National Magazine Coverage Of Ty Cobb And Christy Mathewson, 1900-1928 / Amber Roessner -- The Making Of Charlie Hustle : Pete Rose And The American Dream, 1963-1985 / Todd F. Mcdorman -- Pt. Iii. Blacks In Baseball : From Segregation To Conflicted Integration -- The East-west Game : All-stars And Negro League Finances / Kenneth Winter, Michael J. Haupert -- Playing In The Gray Area : Black Baseball And Its Jewish Middleman Economy / Roberta J. Newman, Joel Nathan Rosen -- A Calculus Of Color : The Slow Integration Of The American League, 1947-1959 / Robert Kuhn Mcgregor -- The Plantation Owner And Brother Vida Blue : Charlie Finley, Vida Blue, And The Politics Of Race In Oakland / Ron Briley -- Pt. Iv. The Enterprise Of Baseball : Economics And Entrepreneurs -- How World War I Nearly Brought Down Professional Baseball / Charles Demotte -- Babe Ruth Vs. Baby Ruth : The Quest For A Candy Bar / Charles A. Poekel, Jr. -- Branch Rickey Versus Larry Macphail : How A Rivalry Turned Feud Impacted Major League Baseball On The Eve Of Racial Integration / Lee Lowenfish, William Marshall -- Pt. V. The Genesis And Legacy Of Baseball Scholarship -- Using Baseball / Dorothy Seymour Mills. Edited By William M. Simons. Issn: 1536-1195--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.