The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American culture, 2000 / edited with an introduction by William M. Simons ; series editor, Alvin Hall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Baseball and culture -- "When Homer smote his bloomin' lyre" : some observations on sportswriting / Roger Kahn -- Safe at home : forging intergenerational alliances / C. Oren Renick -- "Jesus is standing at the home plate" : baseball and American Christianity / Gregory Erickson -- Physical literacy in baseball and other sports / Robert Ochsner -- A flexible metaphor : baseball in the classroom / Michelle Jones -- "Walter Johnson" by Jonathan Richman : the portrait of a hero in song / Richard J. Puerzer -- pt. 2. Baseball as history -- "This town isn't big enough for both of us" : politics, economics, and local rivalries in St. Louis Major League Baseball / Roger D. Launius -- Baseball during World War II : an exploration of the issue / Gerald Bazer and Steven Culbertson -- The game in sepiatone and soft focus : nostalgia and American baseball in historical context / Thomas L. Altherr -- pt. 3 The business of baseball -- Major league umpires and collective bargaining / Karen Shallcross Koziara -- Customer discrimination in memorabilia : new evidence for Major League Baseball / Rhonda Sharpe and Sumner La Croix -- Despoiling the sleeve : the threat of corporate advertising upon the integrity of the major league uniform / Ken Moon -- pt. 4. Race, gender, and ethnicity in the national pastime -- Houston's Latin star Cesar Cedeno and death in the Dominican Republic : the troubled legacy of race relations in the Lone Star State [Texas] / Ron Briley -- Comparative ethnicity : Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg / William Simons -- Baseball in the Ocean State : Rhode Island Black baseball, 1886-1948 / Lawrence D. Hogan and Jeffrey L. Statts -- "She loved baseball" : Effa Manley and Negro League baseball / Amy Essington -- Black players on the field of dreams : African American baseball in film / George Grella -- "I haven't got ballplayers. I've got girls" : portrayals of women in baseball film / Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most.

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