Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2017-2018

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

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (William M. Simons)Part I. The Women’s Game: Leaders, Players and WritersSkirting the Issue VII: The High Times and Challenges of Women Who Play Baseball (Jean Hastings Ardell, Gabrielle K. Augustine, Martina Sementelli, ­Justine Siegal and Kat D. Williams)Written Out of History: Women Baseball Writers, 1905–1945 (Donna L. Halper)Baseball Americana—Baseball in the Community (Carla Hayden)Part II. Getting It Right: Numbers, Analytics and Validations“What were we thinking?” The History of Ignoring Competitive ­Advantage (Brian Kenny)WAR, Race and Ethnicity: Collector Discrimination for ­Hall-of-Fame Player Baseball Cards (Michael R. McAvoy)Part III. Baseball Outliers: Radical Jews, Mayans, Affirmative Action and Prisoners Sam Nahem: The ­Right-Handed Lefty Who Integrated Military Baseball in World War II (Peter Dreier)Branch Rickey, Affirmative Action and “Merit” in Baseball and Education (Evan Caminker)The Golden Era of Prison Baseball and the Revenge of Casey Coburn (Thomas Wolf)What Team Do I Belong To? (Gerardo D. Canul)Part IV. Other Robinsons: Jackie as Republican and Writer Robinson Agonistes: The Curious Bromance and Breakup of Jackie Robinson and Richard Nixon (Johnny S. Moore)“Jackie Robinson Says”: Robinson’s Surprising, Lengthy, Multifaceted Career in Journalism (Brian Carroll)Part V. Road Trips: The Global GameAlbert Spalding as an Agent of Foreign Policy: Baseball, International Relations Theory and American Diplomacy (Anthony Calandrillo)“If we had known he wanted to be a dictator, we would have made him an umpire”: An Exploration into Cuba’s and Fidel Castro’s Love of Baseball (Lee Lowenfish)Part VI. The Arts: Poetry and SculpturePoems as Submarine Sinkers: The Striking Words of Dan Quisenberry (Joseph Stanton)Sculpture as Narrative: The Giamatti Bench (Mark Aronson)Index