Discover baseball's role in American society! Baseball and American
Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's
impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost
scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J.
Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the
book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and
how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American
culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American
Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's
involvement in virtually every important social development in the
United Statespast and present. Baseball and American Culture
examines baseball's unique role as a sociological touchstone,
presenting scholarly essays that explore the game as a microcosm
for American societygood and bad. Topics include the struggle for
racial equality, women's role in society, immigration,
management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, the
limitations of baseball as a metaphor, and suicide. Contributing
authors include Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An
Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the
Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, and a host of presenters to
the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture,
including Thomas Altherr, George Grella, Dave Ogden, Roberta
Newman, Brian Carroll, Richard Puerzer, and the editor himself.
Baseball and American Culture features 23 essays on this
fascinating subject, including: On Fenway, Faith, and Fandom: A Red
Sox Fan Reflects Baseball and Blacks: A Loss of Affinity, A Loss of
Community The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology Writing Their
Way Home: American Writers and Baseball God and the Diamond: The
Born-Again Baseball Autobiography Baseball and American Culture:
Across the Diamond is an essential read for baseball fans and
historians, academics involved in sports literature and popular
culture, and students of American society.
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