Baseball and American culture
Subtitle: across the diamond
By: Edward J. Rielly, editor
Contributors: Rielly, Edward J
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States; Baseball -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The American Fan. A distinct sense of belonging / E. Michael Brady; title: Home base : a survey of backyard baseball diamonds / Theresa M. Danna; title: On Fenway, faith, and fandom : a Red Sox fan reflects / Derek Catsam; title: Baseball memorabilia / Frank Hoffmann; title: Baseball inclusivity. From Jackie to Elvis, from Selma to St. Petersburg : the desegregation of spring training / Brian Carroll; title: Creating home with the ball field : the dynamics of baseball and civic inclusivity for Germans, Irishmen, and Blacks during the late nineteenth century / Kevin J. Grzymala; title: The Internet and the popularization of the Negro leagues / Alar Lipping; title: Baseball and Blacks : a loss of affinity, a loss of community / David C. Ogden; title: The All-American girls professional baseball league : accomplishing great things in a dangerous world / Carol J. Pierman; title: Globalization of baseball in popular culture / Martin Manning; title: Money, managing, and myth. Here's the pitch : baseball and advertising / Roberta Newman; title: From John McGraw to Joe Torre : industrial management styles applied throughout the history of major league baseball / Richard J. Puerzer; title: The Hall of Fame and the American mythology / George Grella; title: Baseball and the arts. Politics, patriotism, and baseball on-screen / Rob Edelman; title: Writing their way home : American writers and baseball / Connie Ann Kirk; title: Baseball as a second language : the impenetrability of our national pastime / Seth Whidden; title: Baseball poetry : society's overlooked and underestimated literary art form / Dan Zamudio; title: Eiron men, "You know me, Alazons," and pixies : baseball humor as American humor / Thomas L. Altherr; title: Baseball and resolution of conflict. Baseball labor relations : is it safe to go back to the ballpark? / Karen Shallcross Koziara; title: God and the diamond : the "born-again" baseball autobiography / Gary Land; title: The winter meetings, the king of baseball, and the conscience of the game / Larry Moffi; title: Control problems : the limitations of baseball as metaphor / William W. Wright; title: Boys of summer, suicides of winter : an introduction to baseball suicides / Loren Coleman