Full Description
This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York—home of the Baseball Hall of Fame—and Dyersville, Iowa—site of the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of Dreams. .
Contents
Performing Place -- Invented and Contested Baseball Traditions -- Cooperstown, New York -- Dyersville, Iowa -- Dad, Wanna have a Catch? -- Space and The Geographical Imagination: -- Home is a White Surface in the Shape of a House -- National Baseball Hall of Fame Election Rules -- credits
