Making the team : the cultural work of baseball fiction /
Morris, Timothy,1959-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.
Everybody wants to play for the Yankees -- "I do not mean fairy love" -- "I was in America and my job was to speak English" -- Hitting the bell curve -- But is it literature?
Baseball stories, American
Literature and society
Psychological fiction, American
American fiction
Children's stories, American
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Elite (Social Sciences) in literature.
Heterosexuality in literature.
Social status in literature.
Bildungsromans.