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Theinfluence of baseball heritage in society and culture

Baseball’spast has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been writtenabout both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore theunderstudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted,commodified, and performed for various purposes today.

Theseessays reveal how baseball’s heritage can be a source of great enjoyment andinspiration, tracing its influence on constructed environments, such asstadiums and monuments, and food and popular culture. The contributors discusshow its heritage can be used to address social, political, and economic aimsand agendas and can reveal tensions about whose past is remembered and whose islaid aside. Contributors address race and racism in the sport, representations ofwomen in baseball, ballparks as repositories for baseball’s heritage, and therole of museums in generating the game’s heritage narrative.

Providingperspectives on the social impact and influence of baseball in the UnitedStates, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the UnitedKingdom, Baseball and Cultural Heritageshows how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture andheritage of a nation.

A volumein the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel

Sport has become an important avenue in how we interpret, remember, and maintain our heritage. Whether it is being applied in tourism marketing and development, employed as a vehicle for social cohesion, or utilized as a way of articulating personal and collective identities, sport heritage is a vital topic in understanding what we value about the sporting past now what we wish to pass on to future generations. This edited collection brings together many new and exciting international approaches to sport heritage. Each of the chapters in this collection provides a thought-provoking sport heritage case study that would be of interest to students and researchers in history, geography, anthropology, and marketing, as well as industry practitioners working at sporting events, at sports-based heritage attractions such as museums and halls of fame, and at sports stadia and sports facilities. In addition, this collection would also be of interest to those readers with a more general interest in sport heritage and the sporting past.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Heritage Tourism.

Sport has become an important avenue in how we interpret, remember, and maintain our heritage. Whether it is being applied in tourism marketing and development, employed as a vehicle for social cohesion, or utilized as a way of articulating personal and collective identities, sport heritage is a vital topic in understanding what we value about the sporting past now what we wish to pass on to future generations. This edited collection brings together many new and exciting international approaches to sport heritage. Each of the chapters in this collection provides a thought-provoking sport heritage case study that would be of interest to students and researchers in history, geography, anthropology, and marketing, as well as industry practitioners working at sporting events, at sports-based heritage attractions such as museums and halls of fame, and at sports stadia and sports facilities. In addition, this collection would also be of interest to those readers with a more general interest in sport heritage and the sporting past.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Heritage Tourism.

This book provides a holistic view of the relationship between heritage and sport. It examines four types of sport heritage: tangible immovable sport heritage (sports venues, monuments and memorials, landscapes); tangible movable sport heritage (museums and halls of fame, events, living sport heritage); intangible sport heritage (intangibility of sport heritage, institutions, existential); and goods and services with a sport heritage component (tourism, marketing, management). It offers both theoretical and applied approaches to the heritage–sport relationship and intersects with many contemporary topics in heritage, sport, tourism, events and marketing. It will be useful to students and researchers in sport tourism, sport studies, heritage studies, sport history, museum studies and sports management.

This book provides a holistic view of the relationship between heritage and sport. It examines four types of sport heritage: tangible immovable sport heritage (sports venues, monuments and memorials, landscapes); tangible movable sport heritage (museums and halls of fame, events, living sport heritage); intangible sport heritage (intangibility of sport heritage, institutions, existential); and goods and services with a sport heritage component (tourism, marketing, management). It offers both theoretical and applied approaches to the heritage–sport relationship and intersects with many contemporary topics in heritage, sport, tourism, events and marketing. It will be useful to students and researchers in sport tourism, sport studies, heritage studies, sport history, museum studies and sports management.