Tony Silvia

Baseball Over the Air

The National Pastime on the Radio and in the Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) and illuminates each in a unique manner. It integrates radio and baseball historically, sociologically, and culturally using the common themes of imaginative expression. This book is a unique approach into the magic of radio's imaginative power. Broadcasting baseball on the radio has brought many millions of Americans an imaginative link to a game that is built upon recollections of athletic achievement that ring far truer in our "sweet imaginations." Through the use of our imaginations, we can see the game itself as more than just a game, but a gateway to an imaginative realm beyond the reality of everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780786430666
• ISBN-10: 0786430664
• Artikelnr.: 22552756

Autorenporträt

Tony Silvia is a professor emeritus of journalism and digital communication at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg and had a long career in broadcast journalism. He is the author of seven other titles, including four with McFarland. He lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Dewayne Staats     
Introduction     
Part I. Imagination at Play: Radio, Baseball and the Creative Process
1. Long Distance Dreams: Baseball and Early Radio     
2. Tall Tales and Recreations: Radio, Baseball, and Manufactured
Reality     
3. A Dark Room Deep in the Woods: Radio and Baseball in Fiction and
Nonfiction     
Part II. Imagination at Work: Radio, Baseball and the Creative Voice
4. Radio's Pioneer of Poetic License: Gordon McLendon     
5. Spellbinding Storyteller: Radio's "Other" Stern     
6. Casting a Magic Spell: Graham McNamee, Red Barber, and Mel Allen     
Part III. Imagination at Home: Radio, Baseball and the Creative Listener
7. The Listener's Club: Radio, Baseball, and a Sense of Community     
8. A New Community: Radio, Baseball, and Bloggers     
9. A New Field of Play: Radio, Baseball, and the Future     
Chapter Notes     
Appendix A: Recordings of Radio Broadcasts in the National Baseball Hall of
Fame Library     
Appendix B: Gordon McLendon Recordings in the Southwest Collection, Texas
Tech University Library     
Appendix C: Gordon McLendon's Call of Bobby Thomson's Famous "Shot Heard
Round the World" (October 3, 1951)     
Bibliography     
Index