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Informationen zum Autor William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York-Oneonta. Klappentext The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 is an anthology of scholarly essays that utilize the national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark and constitute a significant academic contribution to baseball literature. The essays represent sixteen of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held, respectively, on June 3-5, 2009, and June 2-4, 2010. The anthology is divided into five parts: Baseball as Culture: Dance, Literature, National Character, and Myth; Constructing Baseball Heroes; Blacks in Baseball: From Segregation to Conflicted Integration; The Enterprise of Baseball: Economics and Entrepreneurs; and Genesis and Legacy of Baseball Scholarship, which features an essay written by the co-creator of baseball scholarship, Dorothy Seymour Mills. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionWilliam M. Simons PART I: BASEBALL AS CULTURE: DANCE, LITERATURE, NATIONAL CHARACTER, AND MYTHPlié Ball! Baseball in American DanceJeff Katz On the Brink: Babe Ruth in Dennis Lehane's The Given DayPatricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf The Golem, the Rabbi, and "That Long-Sought Hebrew Star": Jews in 1920s BaseballWilliam M. Simons "The crowd began to shout 'Atta boy,' with a Lancashire accent": The English Response to Baseball Exhibition Games in the Early 20th CenturyBeth Hise The Little Lefty: Southpaw Perceptions and RealityWayne Patterson PART II: CONSTRUCTING BASEBALL HEROESTy Cobb and the Culture of HonorSteve Tripp The Sinner and the Saint: National Magazine Coverage of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, 1900-1928Amber Roessner The Making of Charlie Hustle: Pete Rose and the American Dream, 1963-1985Todd F. McDorman PART III: BLACKS IN BASEBALL: FROM SEGREGATION TO CONFLICTED INTEGRATIONThe East-West Game: All-Stars and Negro League FinancesKenneth Winter and Michael J. Haupert Playing in the Gray Area: Black Baseball and Its Jewish "Middleman" EconomyRoberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen A Calculus of Color: The Slow Integration of the American League, 1947-1959Robert Kuhn McGregor "The Plantation Owner" and "Brother Vida Blue": Charlie Finley, Vida Blue, and the Politics of Race in OaklandRon Briley PART IV: THE ENTERPRISE OF BASEBALL: ECONOMICS AND ENTREPRENEURSHow World War I Nearly Brought Down Professional BaseballCharles DeMotte Babe Ruth vs. Baby Ruth: The Quest for a CandyCharles A. Poekel, Jr. Branch Rickey Versus Larry MacPhail: How a Rivalry Turned Feud Impacted Major League Baseball on the Eve of Racial IntegrationLee Lowenfish and William Marshall PART V: THE GENESIS AND LEGACY OF BASEBALL SCHOLARSHIPUsing BaseballDorothy Seymour Mills Index ...
