In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines
"herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of
the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities
-- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher
Christy Mathewson. While other scholars have demonstrated that the
mythmakers of the Golden Age of Sports Writing (1920--1930)
manufactured heroes out of baseball players for the mainstream
media, Roessner probes further, with a penetrating look at how
sportswriters compromised emerging professional standards of
journalism as they crafted heroic tales that sought to teach
American boys how to be successful players in the game of life.
Cobb and Mathewson, respectively stereotyped as the game's
sinner and saint, helped shape their public images in the
mainstream press through their relationship with four of the most
prominent sports journalists of the time: Grantland Rice, F. C.
Lane, Ring Lardner, and John N. Wheeler. Roessner traces the
interactions between the athletes and the reporters, delving into
newsgathering strategies as well as rapport-building techniques,
and ultimately revealing an inherent tension in objective sports
reporting in the era.
Inventing Baseball Heroes will be of interest to scholars of
American history, sports history, cultural studies, and
communication. Its interdisciplinary approach provides a broad
understanding of the role sports journalists played in the
production of American heroes.
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