Editor Peter M. Rutkoff directs the American Studies program and was the National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished teaching professor of history and American studies, 1997–2000, at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. They are also the editors of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1997 (Jackie Robinson) (2000).

“reprints of scholarly papers covering baseball’s relation to American society, business and its fan base”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “put this on your list of reflective essays worth every minute”—Public Library Quarterly; “ambitious...appealing...each selection provides overall provocative and engaging discussions over a variety of topics of both historical and contemporary importance to the game”—Sociology of Sport Journal.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface       Introduction      PART 1: BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATIONSolarball: Baseball, America, Time, and the Sun      Spirituality and Baseball      The Baseball Diamond as American Landscape      The 1913 World Series and the Epic Imagination      PART 2: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTUREBaseball Short Stories: From Lardner to Asinof to Kinsella      Reflections on Baseball and Poetry      Baseball and Vaudeville and the Development of Popular Culture in the United StatesBaseball and Country Music      As American as Cherry Pie: Baseball and Reflections of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s“Three Strikes and You’re Out”: The Role of Sports Metaphors in Political Discourse      Baseball Meets the National Pastime: Baseball and Radio      PART 3: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN SOCIETYSlide, Kelly, Slide: The Irish in the Early History of Baseball      Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American RepublicBaseball as a Symbiosis of Interests: A Survey of Men and Women at Minor League Games in the Midwest      Joe DiMaggio and the Ideal of American Masculinity      From Bloomer Girls’ Baseball to Women’s Softball: A Cultural Journey Resulting in Women’s Exclusion from Baseball      Mixed Singles: The Story of Ella Manley and the Negro Leagues (A Play)      PART 4: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN BUSINESSThe Modern Way to Spell Baseball: $Business, $People, $Collecting, the $Sport and $More      Stamp Out Smokeless Tobacco and Snuff in Baseball      Baseball, Culture, Criminal Justice, and the Academy      The Curt Flood Act: Legislative History and Labor Relations Implications      PART 5: BASEBALL AND THEThe Fans' Role in Shaping Baseball: A Voice Too Long Silent?      Baseball Fans and the Cooperstown Symposium Participants      Index

Editor Peter M. Rutkoff directs the American Studies program and was the National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished teaching professor of history and American studies, 1997–2000, at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. They are also the editors of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1997 (Jackie Robinson) (2000).

“reprints of scholarly papers covering baseball’s relation to American society, business and its fan base”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “put this on your list of reflective essays worth every minute”—Public Library Quarterly; “ambitious...appealing...each selection provides overall provocative and engaging discussions over a variety of topics of both historical and contemporary importance to the game”—Sociology of Sport Journal.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface       Introduction      PART 1: BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATIONSolarball: Baseball, America, Time, and the Sun      Spirituality and Baseball      The Baseball Diamond as American Landscape      The 1913 World Series and the Epic Imagination      PART 2: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTUREBaseball Short Stories: From Lardner to Asinof to Kinsella      Reflections on Baseball and Poetry      Baseball and Vaudeville and the Development of Popular Culture in the United StatesBaseball and Country Music      As American as Cherry Pie: Baseball and Reflections of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s“Three Strikes and You’re Out”: The Role of Sports Metaphors in Political Discourse      Baseball Meets the National Pastime: Baseball and Radio      PART 3: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN SOCIETYSlide, Kelly, Slide: The Irish in the Early History of Baseball      Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American RepublicBaseball as a Symbiosis of Interests: A Survey of Men and Women at Minor League Games in the Midwest      Joe DiMaggio and the Ideal of American Masculinity      From Bloomer Girls’ Baseball to Women’s Softball: A Cultural Journey Resulting in Women’s Exclusion from Baseball      Mixed Singles: The Story of Ella Manley and the Negro Leagues (A Play)      PART 4: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN BUSINESSThe Modern Way to Spell Baseball: $Business, $People, $Collecting, the $Sport and $More      Stamp Out Smokeless Tobacco and Snuff in Baseball      Baseball, Culture, Criminal Justice, and the Academy      The Curt Flood Act: Legislative History and Labor Relations Implications      PART 5: BASEBALL AND THEThe Fans' Role in Shaping Baseball: A Voice Too Long Silent?      Baseball Fans and the Cooperstown Symposium Participants      Index

Editor Peter M. Rutkoff directs the American Studies program and was the National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished teaching professor of history and American studies, 1997–2000, at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Alvin L. Hall is director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. They are also the editors of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1997 (Jackie Robinson) (2000).

“reprints of scholarly papers covering baseball’s relation to American society, business and its fan base”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “put this on your list of reflective essays worth every minute”—Public Library Quarterly; “ambitious...appealing...each selection provides overall provocative and engaging discussions over a variety of topics of both historical and contemporary importance to the game”—Sociology of Sport Journal.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface       Introduction      PART 1: BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATIONSolarball: Baseball, America, Time, and the Sun      Spirituality and Baseball      The Baseball Diamond as American Landscape      The 1913 World Series and the Epic Imagination      PART 2: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTUREBaseball Short Stories: From Lardner to Asinof to Kinsella      Reflections on Baseball and Poetry      Baseball and Vaudeville and the Development of Popular Culture in the United StatesBaseball and Country Music      As American as Cherry Pie: Baseball and Reflections of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s“Three Strikes and You’re Out”: The Role of Sports Metaphors in Political Discourse      Baseball Meets the National Pastime: Baseball and Radio      PART 3: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN SOCIETYSlide, Kelly, Slide: The Irish in the Early History of Baseball      Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American RepublicBaseball as a Symbiosis of Interests: A Survey of Men and Women at Minor League Games in the Midwest      Joe DiMaggio and the Ideal of American Masculinity      From Bloomer Girls’ Baseball to Women’s Softball: A Cultural Journey Resulting in Women’s Exclusion from Baseball      Mixed Singles: The Story of Ella Manley and the Negro Leagues (A Play)      PART 4: BASEBALL AND AMERICAN BUSINESSThe Modern Way to Spell Baseball: $Business, $People, $Collecting, the $Sport and $More      Stamp Out Smokeless Tobacco and Snuff in Baseball      Baseball, Culture, Criminal Justice, and the Academy      The Curt Flood Act: Legislative History and Labor Relations Implications      PART 5: BASEBALL AND THEThe Fans' Role in Shaping Baseball: A Voice Too Long Silent?      Baseball Fans and the Cooperstown Symposium Participants      Index