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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2007-2008
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (19th : 2007 : Cooperstown, N.Y.)
- Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture (20th : 2008 : Cooperstown, N.Y.)
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- Creator
- edited by William M. Simons
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2009
- Physical Details
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- vii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0786435690, 9780786435692
- OCLC
- ocn263493025
- Papers of the nineteenth and twentieth symposiums held June 6-8, 2007, and June 4-6, 2008 and co-sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the State University of New York at Oneonta.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / William M. Simons -- The baseball reliquary : the left coast's alternative to interpreting baseball history / Jean Hastings Ardell -- Durocher as Machiavelli : bad Catholic, good American / Jeffrey Marlett -- Homecoming : family, place, and community in Sara Vogan's "In Shelley's Leg" and Thomas Oliphant's "Praying for Gil Hodges" / Thomas Wolf -- Now batting- Peter Pan : Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" and baseball's boyish culture / Elizabeth V. O'Connell -- "Chasing moonlight" through fiction, film, and fact : the evolution of a biography / Brett Friedlander and R.W. Reising -- Patriot's game? Images of American nationalism in baseball films / Robert Rudd and Marshall Most -- dark side of the American dream : Ron Shelton's "Cobb" / Ron Briley -- No dummies : deafness, baseball, and American culture / R.A.R. Edwards -- Asians and baseball : the breaking and perpetuating of stereotypes / Terumi Rafferty-Osaki -- Building a league one dollar at a time : the story of the immediate success of the American league / Michael J. Haupert and Kenneth Winter -- Israel baseball league and the Jewish diaspora / Baseball's ultimate umpires : labor arbitration in our national game / Roger I. Abrams -- Taxing the fan who catches the ball : looking back on record-breakers, the 1998 season and the IRS's turn at the plate / Patricia L. Bryan -- role of agents in baseball / Paul D. Staudohar -- brave departure / Michael Civille -- great Dodgers pitching tandem strikes a blow for salaries : the 1996 Drysdale-Koufax holdout and its impact on the game / Ed Edmonds