The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2000 (Cooperstown Symposium Series, 4) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786411201 ISBN 13: 9780786411207

Publisher: McFarland, 2001

Synopsis

This is an anthology of 19 papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 7–9, 2000 and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Capped by Roger Kahn’s essay on the rise and fall of great baseball prose, this Symposium plumbed such topics as baseball in the classroom, the national pastime and American Christianity, corporate encroachment, and the difficult course pursued by a Negro League team owner who also happened to be white and female. These essays, divided into sections titled “Baseball and Culture,” “Baseball as History,” “The Business of Baseball” and “Race, Gender and Ethnicity in the National Pastime,” cut through the quick and easy judgments of the media and offer instead the longer, more informed view of scholars and researchers.

About this title

About the Author:

William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786411201
• ISBN 13: 9780786411207
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Simons William M., Amy Essington