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Baseball and Memory - Winning, Losing, and the Remembrance of Things Past (Hardcover)
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Baseball and Memory - Winning, Losing, and the Remembrance of Things Past (Hardcover)
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In this historical/philosophical reflection, Lee Congdon writes of
the ways in which baseball spurs memory. This is particularly
important at a time when many Americans suffer from a form of
amnesia that renders them defenseless in the face of concerted
efforts to seize possession of the past. "Who controls the past
controls the future," George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four,
"who controls the present controls the past." Baseball can, and
does, stand in the way of those whose ambition it is to gain and
maintain power by pretending that memory cannot be trusted; what
was once thought to be "the past" was merely a fiction that served
the interests of a ruling class. This, Congdon argues, is
asself-serving as it is untrue. Memory can play tricks on us, but,
supported as it often is by confirming evidence, it alone can tell
us who we are - and more. When we remember important moments and
players from the game's past, we soon discover that they are
inextricably intertwined with particular eras in our common
history: Babe Ruth and the Jazz Age, Joe DiMaggio and the country
at war, Willie Mays and the 1950s. In often revelatory ways, those
eras come alive again, and as a result we gain greater
self-understanding, as individuals and as a people. Although he
draws upon the entire history of baseball, Congdon focuses
primarily on the decade of the 1950s because he believes it to have
been the game's golden age - and a far better time in the nation's
history than Americans have been taught to think. Baseball's
continual invitation to communal remembrance can, he concludes,
help us to avoid the fate reserved for those who forget.
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Imprint: |
St. Augustine's Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2011 |
First published: |
May 2011 |
Authors: |
Lee Congdon
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Dimensions: |
241 x 158 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
192 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-58731-063-8 |
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LSN: |
1-58731-063-5 |
Barcode: |
9781587310638 |
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