Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021

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

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWilliam M. SimonsPart I. Missed Calls—Umpires and Electors“Nobody’s Perfect”: Armando Galarraga’s (Im)Perfect Game and Instant ReplayTodd F. McDorman and Donovan BisbeeRigged Elections: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Blacklisting of Marvin MillerPeter DreierPart II. Coming ofJosephine Morhard: The First Lady of Boys’ BaseballRuth Hanford MorhardThe First Game as a Rite of Passage: Implications for American CultureMark L. PeleshPart III. Baseball in the HinterlandsBecoming New Englanders: Immigrants, Sports, and Connecticut Yankees in Mid–Twentieth Century AmericaR.A.R. EdwardsBringing Canadian Baseball Out of Hockey’s ShadowRobert EliasPart IV. The Catchers—MaskedBlackball’s “Ironman”: Catcher Larry BrownKeith B. WoodMoe Berg and the Media: Competing Interpretations of the Enigmatic ­Catcher-SpyWilliam M. SimonsPart V. The Minor Leagues—Past and PresentEconomics of Minor League Baseball, 1876–1900Daniel R. LevittAn Age and Place as Golden as Any Other: The 1930s and 1940s Newark Bears and EaglesCurt Smith­MLB-Atlantic League Agreement Rule Changes: Tinker, Not Evers, No ChanceWayne PattersonPart VI. The Game in Poetry, Prose, and MusicShubert to Ziegfeld to White: Baseball in Broadway Musical Revues, 1908–1922Jeffrey M. KatzJack Kerouac and Fantasy BaseballThomas Wolf“A Great Slow Contraption”: Baseball in the Writings of Michael ChabonRichard J. PuerzerBirds on the Bat and Squirrels on the Field: The St. Louis Cardinals in the PostseasonJoseph StantonIndex