The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2011-2012 /

The 2011-2012 volume in the Cooperstown Symposium series is a collection of new scholarly essays that use baseball to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark. The essays represent 16 of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture Cooperstown, N.Y., Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture
Otros Autores: Simons, William M.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2013.
Colección:Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture.
Temas:
Baseball > Social aspects > United States > Congresses.
Baseball > United States > History > Congresses.
Base-ball > Aspect social > États-Unis > Congrès.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
Baseball
Baseball > Social aspects
Social conditions
United States > Social conditions > Congresses.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Congrès.
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments (William M. Simons)
  • Introduction (William M. Simons)
  • Part I. Baseball History, Myth, and the American Past
  • Baseball's Unchanging Past: A Necessary Illusion (John Thorn)
  • Baseball's Winter of Discontent, 1926-1927 (Charles DeMotte)
  • The 1926 World Series: A Refl ection of the "Roaring Twenties" (Paul E. Doutrich)
  • A Wife's Memento and Memorial: The Lou Gehrig Scrapbooks (Jon S. Arakaki)
  • The Rise and Demise of Minor League Baseball in Oneonta, 1966-2010 (Michael Sokolow)
  • Part II. Decade of Transition: The 1960s in Baseball and America
  • The New Frontier: Baseball and the Zeitgeist of JFK's America (William M. Simons)
  • Marvin Miller and Free Agency: The Pivotal Year, 1969 (David Bohmer)
  • Part III. Baseball Economics: Owners, Pro fits, and the Public
  • MLB Leaks Financial Statements: A Factual Analysis (Kenneth Winter and Michael J. Haupert)
  • The Building of Yankee Stadium: Tax-Exempt Bonds and Federal Subsidies for the Richest Team in Baseball (Patricia L. Bryan)
  • Celebrating Nostalgia, Legalizing Extortion, and Subsidizing Greed: The Hegemony of the Retro Ballpark (Timothy Jurkovac)
  • Part IV. Out of the Bleachers: Women Umpiring and Playing
  • Women in Black: Pearls of Wisdom from Behind the Plate (Perry Barber and Jean Hastings Ardell)
  • America's Baseball Underground: Invisible Women in the National Pastime (Jennifer Ring)
  • Part V. Casting the Game: Stage and Screen
  • A Less Than Perfect Game, in a Less Than Perfect Place: The Critical Turn in Baseball Film (Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd)
  • Theater's Curve Balls: Baseball Plays and the American Psyche (Tim Good)
  • Part VI. Game of Numbers: Statistical Baseball
  • Assessing Consumer Preference for Hall of Fame Baseball Player Cards (Michael R. McAvoy).
  • Quality Starts: Rede fining Its Relevance (Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.)
  • Index.

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