Full Description
The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences are published in the present work.
Topics covered include religion; class and racial dichotomies in the literature of cricket and baseball; re-reading The Natural in the 21st century; the feminist movement; Don DeLillo's Game 6; baseball in Seinfeld; Robert B. Parker; Harry Stein's Hoopla; Negro league owner Tom Wilson's impact on Nashville; Major League Baseball's postwar boom; and overwrought baseball editorials, among others.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword by John N. McDaniel
Preface: Working the Count: Continuing Diversity in Baseball Studies
RONALD E. KATES AND WARREN TORMEY
I. BASEBALL IN SCHOLARLY AND SPIRITUAL CONTEXTS
Baseball Studies: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
PETER CARINO
Proselytizing Pastime: Appropriating Jesus at Coors Field
ANDREW HAZUCHA
"Blasphemous Youths" and Sunday Baseball: A Cincinnati Tale from 1885
KEVIN GRACE
II. BASEBALL IN CULTURAL AND LITERARY CONTEXTS
What's "Not Cricket" Ain't Necessarily Baseball Either: Class and Racial Dichotomies in the Literature of Cricket and Baseball
JEREMY LARANCE
"Minds of Fleetful Thoughts": Rube Foster, Dave Malarcher, and the Intellectual Project of Negro League Baseball
DANIEL ANDERSON
Staging a Feminist Movement in Baseball: Rida Johnson Young's The Girl and the Pennant
TRAVIS STERN
Baseball at the D.C. Diamond: October 3, 1951—The Day the Earth Stood Still
STEVE ANDREWS
Re-Reading The Natural in the 21st Century
REBEKAH BILLINGS
"An Offense Against Memory": The Buckner Moment in Don DeLillo's Game 6
CROSBY HUNT
"What the Hell Did You Trade Jay Buhner For?"
Baseball in Seinfeld
AARON W. MILLER
Hard-Boiled Baseball: The National Game in the Fiction of Robert B. Parker
GARY LAND
Change of a Nation: Boxing, Baseball, and the Birth of a New American Hero as Depicted in Harry Stein's Hoopla
NICHOLAS X. BUSH
Putting the Ball Cap on James Joyce: Beer and Bars, and Echoes of Ulysses in Coover's Universal Baseball Association
WARREN TORMEY
The Inevitable Last Pitch: Lit Fans Bid Rabbit Adieu
PHIL OLIVER
III. FICTION
Politics as Usual
TOM WELLS
A Wicked Curve
STEVEN L. WALKER
IV. BASEBALL IN HISTORICAL AND REFLECTIVE CONTEXTS
The Day the Part-Timers Were Champions: June 13, 1926,
Muzzy Field, Bristol, Connecticut
DOUGLAS S. MALAN
The Contributions of Tom Wilson: A Negro League Team Owner's Impact on the Nashville Community
HARRIET HAMILTON
Pumpsie Green: The Last of the Firsts
THOMAS D. VEVE
When Every Mudville Joined a League: Minor League Baseball's Postwar Boom, 1945-1955
ROBERT G. BARRIER
How to Write a Great Baseball Story
R DEAN JOHNSON
Nothing's Wrong with Baseball: Overwrought Baseball Editorials and the Most Frequent Complaints
About the Game
SARAH D. BUNTING
What Baseball Makes
CARL SCHINASI
About the Contributors
Index
