Title The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2002 / edited with an introduction by William M. Simons, Alvin L. Hall, series editor

Published Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) : illustrations Series McFarland Classics (Series) McFarland Classics (Series) Contents Baseball lives in the Depression Era / Charles C. Alexander -- Country baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1867-1921 / Martin Payne -- Pitcher at twilight : Bill Monbouquette and the American dream / William M. Simons -- The segregation of professional baseball in Kansas, 1895-1899 : a case study in the rise of Jim Crow during the Gilded Age / Gregory Bond -- Engineering baseball : Branch Rickey's innovative approach to baseball management / Richard J. Puerzer -- The pitch men : Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr. / Roberta Newman -- Assessing outcomes of baseball labor negotiations / Paul D. Staudohar -- Letting the gini out of the bottle : a look at inequality in Major League Baseball since 1985 / Brian O'Roark and G. Dirk Mateer -- In the tradition of Jackie Robinson : Ozzie Virgil and the integration of the Detroit Tigers / Rob Briley -- Jim Crows of a feather : a comparison of the segregation and desegregation eras in professional baseball and football / Alan H. Levy -- The social significance of sport : implications for race and baseball / Doris R. Corbett and Wayne Patterson -- Blacks in baseball : up from neglect to center stage / Joseph Dorinson -- Baseball and Ernest Hemingway / Peter W. Dowell and Lee A. Pederson -- The Black press and the integration of baseball : when to stop the cheering / Brian Carroll -- Portrayals of racial minorities in baseball films / Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most -- When New York was the capital of baseball : remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune / Oren Renick -- Types and archetypes : the characters of baseball / George Grella -- The changing language of baseball writers in historical context, 1900-2001 / Arline F. Schubert and George W. Schubert -- On being gay in Major League Baseball / Russell Hollander -- When baseball players wore skirts : the promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League / Andi Stein -- Baseball heroes and femme fatales / Charles DeMotte -- Baseball and its appeal to older Americans / David C. Ogden and Michael L. Hilt -- Believing in baseball : the religious power of our national pastime / Thomas F. Dailey -- Theology and celebrity : how celebrity affects the practice of faith in baseball / Peggy Beck Notes Papers of the fourteenth symposium held June 5-7, 2002 and co-sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the State University of New York at Oneonta Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses Baseball -- United States -- History -- Congresses GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports. SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects. SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays. SPORTS & RECREATION -- History. SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports. Baseball Baseball -- Social aspects United States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Hall, Alvin L Simons, William M State University of New York College at Oneonta. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. ISBN 9780786481712 0786481714

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