William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiIntroduction (William M. Simons)Part I: Baseball Poetry, Music, and Literature Baseball, Casey, and Me delete(Frank Deford)“The Band Is Playing Somewhere”: Unpacking the Music of “Casey at the Bat” (Timothy A. Johnson) Towards a History of the Baseball Poem (Joseph Stanton)Part II: The Ballpark: Place and Atmosphere Back to the Future: Building a Ballpark, Not a Stadium (Janet Marie Smith) Ballpark Advertising ­Decade-by-Decade—and the Impact on the Fan Experience and Team Branding (Edward Mayo, John Weitzel and Dobb Mayo) Food Concessions and ­Middle-Class Identification at Baseball Games, 1900–1950 (Seth S. Tannenbaum) The Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say About Baseball: How George Carlin Explains the Relative Lack of Spectator Violence in U.S. Professional Sport (Martin Lewison) Part III: Myths, Legends, and Icons of the GameGreenberg at the Bat: A ­Twenty-First Century Jewish Moonlight Graham (William M. Simons)Superstition and Ritual as Strength—or “Keep brushing those teeth between innings, Turk Wendell” (Matthew R. Yeazel) The Big Leagues on the Big Screen: Character, Culture, and the Mythology of the Majors in the Hollywood Baseball Film (Robert Repici)Part IV: Asian and ­Asian-American Baseball Battered but Not Broken: Baseball and Masculinity at Tule Lake, 1942–1946 (Terumi ­Rafferty-Osaki) A Strategic Approach for Baseball to Flourish in Modern China (Keith Spalding Robbins) Part V: Museums: Baseball Exhibits, Standards, and PreservationMrs. Jack—Art Collector, Muse, Mentor, and Mascot: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Boston Red Sox (Jay Hurd) Preservation of Integrity or Succumbing to the Pressures of the Electronic Media: The Moral and Statistical Conundrums on the Horizon for the Baseball Hall of Fame (Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.) “One for the Books”: (Re)Constructing Baseball History, Memory, and Community (Todd F. McDorman) Part VI: Contracts, Jurisprudence, and the PastimePine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire’s Perspective on the ­Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate (William Blake)The Nation’s Strongest Union: Marvin Miller, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and the Labor Movement in the 1970s (Ron Briley) Index

William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiIntroduction (William M. Simons)Part I: Baseball Poetry, Music, and Literature Baseball, Casey, and Me delete(Frank Deford)“The Band Is Playing Somewhere”: Unpacking the Music of “Casey at the Bat” (Timothy A. Johnson) Towards a History of the Baseball Poem (Joseph Stanton)Part II: The Ballpark: Place and Atmosphere Back to the Future: Building a Ballpark, Not a Stadium (Janet Marie Smith) Ballpark Advertising ­Decade-by-Decade—and the Impact on the Fan Experience and Team Branding (Edward Mayo, John Weitzel and Dobb Mayo) Food Concessions and ­Middle-Class Identification at Baseball Games, 1900–1950 (Seth S. Tannenbaum) The Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say About Baseball: How George Carlin Explains the Relative Lack of Spectator Violence in U.S. Professional Sport (Martin Lewison) Part III: Myths, Legends, and Icons of the GameGreenberg at the Bat: A ­Twenty-First Century Jewish Moonlight Graham (William M. Simons)Superstition and Ritual as Strength—or “Keep brushing those teeth between innings, Turk Wendell” (Matthew R. Yeazel) The Big Leagues on the Big Screen: Character, Culture, and the Mythology of the Majors in the Hollywood Baseball Film (Robert Repici)Part IV: Asian and ­Asian-American Baseball Battered but Not Broken: Baseball and Masculinity at Tule Lake, 1942–1946 (Terumi ­Rafferty-Osaki) A Strategic Approach for Baseball to Flourish in Modern China (Keith Spalding Robbins) Part V: Museums: Baseball Exhibits, Standards, and PreservationMrs. Jack—Art Collector, Muse, Mentor, and Mascot: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Boston Red Sox (Jay Hurd) Preservation of Integrity or Succumbing to the Pressures of the Electronic Media: The Moral and Statistical Conundrums on the Horizon for the Baseball Hall of Fame (Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.) “One for the Books”: (Re)Constructing Baseball History, Memory, and Community (Todd F. McDorman) Part VI: Contracts, Jurisprudence, and the PastimePine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire’s Perspective on the ­Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate (William Blake)The Nation’s Strongest Union: Marvin Miller, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and the Labor Movement in the 1970s (Ron Briley) Index

William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiIntroduction (William M. Simons)Part I: Baseball Poetry, Music, and Literature Baseball, Casey, and Me delete(Frank Deford)“The Band Is Playing Somewhere”: Unpacking the Music of “Casey at the Bat” (Timothy A. Johnson) Towards a History of the Baseball Poem (Joseph Stanton)Part II: The Ballpark: Place and Atmosphere Back to the Future: Building a Ballpark, Not a Stadium (Janet Marie Smith) Ballpark Advertising ­Decade-by-Decade—and the Impact on the Fan Experience and Team Branding (Edward Mayo, John Weitzel and Dobb Mayo) Food Concessions and ­Middle-Class Identification at Baseball Games, 1900–1950 (Seth S. Tannenbaum) The Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say About Baseball: How George Carlin Explains the Relative Lack of Spectator Violence in U.S. Professional Sport (Martin Lewison) Part III: Myths, Legends, and Icons of the GameGreenberg at the Bat: A ­Twenty-First Century Jewish Moonlight Graham (William M. Simons)Superstition and Ritual as Strength—or “Keep brushing those teeth between innings, Turk Wendell” (Matthew R. Yeazel) The Big Leagues on the Big Screen: Character, Culture, and the Mythology of the Majors in the Hollywood Baseball Film (Robert Repici)Part IV: Asian and ­Asian-American Baseball Battered but Not Broken: Baseball and Masculinity at Tule Lake, 1942–1946 (Terumi ­Rafferty-Osaki) A Strategic Approach for Baseball to Flourish in Modern China (Keith Spalding Robbins) Part V: Museums: Baseball Exhibits, Standards, and PreservationMrs. Jack—Art Collector, Muse, Mentor, and Mascot: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Boston Red Sox (Jay Hurd) Preservation of Integrity or Succumbing to the Pressures of the Electronic Media: The Moral and Statistical Conundrums on the Horizon for the Baseball Hall of Fame (Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.) “One for the Books”: (Re)Constructing Baseball History, Memory, and Community (Todd F. McDorman) Part VI: Contracts, Jurisprudence, and the PastimePine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire’s Perspective on the ­Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate (William Blake)The Nation’s Strongest Union: Marvin Miller, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and the Labor Movement in the 1970s (Ron Briley) Index