The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American culture, 2000 / 
 Cooperstown Symposium, 2000 
edited with an introduction by William M. Simons ; series editor, Alvin Hall. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Baseball and culture --  "When Homer smote his bloomin' lyre" : some observations on sportswriting /  Safe at home : forging intergenerational alliances /  "Jesus is standing at the home plate" : baseball and American Christianity /  Physical literacy in baseball and other sports /  A flexible metaphor : baseball in the classroom /  "Walter Johnson" by Jonathan Richman : the portrait of a hero in song /  Baseball as history --  "This town isn't big enough for both of us" : politics, economics, and local rivalries in St. Louis Major League Baseball /  Baseball during World War II : an exploration of the issue /  The game in sepiatone and soft focus : nostalgia and American baseball in historical context /  The business of baseball --  Major league umpires and collective bargaining /  Customer discrimination in memorabilia : new evidence for Major League Baseball /  Despoiling the sleeve : the threat of corporate advertising upon the integrity of the major league uniform /  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] /  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.  Roger Kahn --  C. Oren Renick --  Gregory Erickson --  Robert Ochsner --  Michelle Jones --  Richard J. Puerzer --  Roger D. Launius --  Gerald Bazer and Steven Culbertson --  Thomas L. Altherr --  Karen Shallcross Koziara --  Rhonda Sharpe and Sumner La Croix --  Ken Moon --  Ron Briley --  pt. 1.  pt. 2.  pt. 3  pt. 4. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780786481705 0786481706 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Baseball--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.<br/>Baseball--History--United States--Congresses.<br/>Baseball.<br/>Baseball--Social aspects.<br/>Social conditions<br/>Gesellschaft<br/>Ethnische Beziehungen<br/>Baseball<br/>Sportsoziologie<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--Congresses.<br/>United States.<br/>USA.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Conference papers and proceedings.<br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV863.A1  / C635 2000eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4830973