The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7838-2 (ISBN)

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Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including controversial decisions in on-field and Hall of Fame elections; baseball’s historical role as a rite passage for boys; two worthy catchers who never received their due; the genesis and development of the minor leagues; and baseball’s place in popular culture.

Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark. Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including controversial decisions on the field and in Hall of Fame elections; baseball's historical role as a rite of passage for boys; two worthy catchers who never received their due; the genesis and development of the minor leagues; and baseball's place in popular culture.

William M. Simons is a professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

William M. Simons

Part I. Missed Calls—Umpires and Electors

“Nobody’s Perfect”: Armando Galarraga’s (Im)Perfect Game

and Instant Replay

Todd F. McDorman and Donovan Bisbee

Rigged Elections: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Blacklisting

of Marvin Miller

Peter Dreier

Part II. Coming of

Josephine Morhard: The First Lady of Boys’ Baseball

Ruth Hanford Morhard

The First Game as a Rite of Passage: Implications for

American Culture

Mark L. Pelesh

Part III. Baseball in the Hinterlands

Becoming New Englanders: Immigrants, Sports, and

Connecticut Yankees in Mid–Twentieth Century America

R.A.R. Edwards

Bringing Canadian Baseball Out of Hockey’s Shadow

Robert Elias

Part IV. The Catchers—Masked

Blackball’s “Ironman”: Catcher Larry Brown

Keith B. Wood

Moe Berg and the Media: Competing Interpretations

of the Enigmatic Catcher-Spy

William M. Simons

Part V. The Minor Leagues—Past and Present

Economics of Minor League Baseball, 1876–1900

Daniel R. Levitt

An Age and Place as Golden as Any Other: The 1930s

and 1940s Newark Bears and Eagles

Curt Smith

MLB-Atlantic League Agreement Rule Changes: Tinker,

Not Evers, No Chance

Wayne Patterson

Part VI. The Game in Poetry, Prose, and Music

Shubert to Ziegfeld to White: Baseball in Broadway

Musical Revues, 1908–1922

Jeffrey M. Katz

Jack Kerouac and Fantasy Baseball

Thomas Wolf

“A Great Slow Contraption”: Baseball in the Writings

of Michael Chabon

Richard J. Puerzer

Birds on the Bat and Squirrels on the Field:

The St. Louis Cardinals in the Postseason

Joseph Stanton

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Cooperstown Symposium Series
Zusatzinfo	tables, notes, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4766-7838-3 / 1476678383
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7838-2 / 9781476678382
Zustand	Neuware