Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark. Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including controversial decisions on the field and in Hall of Fame elections; baseball's historical role as a rite of passage for boys; two worthy catchers who never received their due; the genesis and development of the minor leagues; and baseball's place in popular culture.
Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark. Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including controversial decisions on the field and in Hall of Fame elections; baseball's historical role as a rite of passage for boys; two worthy catchers who never received their due; the genesis and development of the minor leagues; and baseball's place in popular culture.
William M. Simons is a professor of history at the State University of New York-Oneonta.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction William M. Simons Part I. Missed Calls-Umpires and Electors "Nobody's Perfect": Armando Galarraga's (Im)Perfect Game and Instant Replay Todd F. McDorman and Donovan Bisbee Rigged Elections: The Baseball Hall of Fame's Blacklisting of Marvin Miller Peter Dreier Part II. Coming of Josephine Morhard: The First Lady of Boys' Baseball Ruth Hanford Morhard The First Game as a Rite of Passage: Implications for American Culture Mark L. Pelesh Part III. Baseball in the Hinterlands Becoming New Englanders: Immigrants, Sports, and Connecticut Yankees in Mid-Twentieth Century America R.A.R. Edwards Bringing Canadian Baseball Out of Hockey's Shadow Robert Elias Part IV. The Catchers-Masked Blackball's "Ironman": Catcher Larry Brown Keith B. Wood Moe Berg and the Media: Competing Interpretations of the Enigmatic Catcher-Spy William M. Simons Part V. The Minor Leagues-Past and Present Economics of Minor League Baseball, 1876-1900 Daniel R. Levitt An Age and Place as Golden as Any Other: The 1930s and 1940s Newark Bears and Eagles Curt Smith MLB-Atlantic League Agreement Rule Changes: Tinker, Not Evers, No Chance Wayne Patterson Part VI. The Game in Poetry, Prose, and Music Shubert to Ziegfeld to White: Baseball in Broadway Musical Revues, 1908-1922 Jeffrey M. Katz Jack Kerouac and Fantasy Baseball Thomas Wolf "A Great Slow Contraption": Baseball in the Writings of Michael Chabon Richard J. Puerzer Birds on the Bat and Squirrels on the Field: The St. Louis Cardinals in the Postseason Joseph Stanton Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction William M. Simons Part I. Missed Calls-Umpires and Electors "Nobody's Perfect": Armando Galarraga's (Im)Perfect Game and Instant Replay Todd F. McDorman and Donovan Bisbee Rigged Elections: The Baseball Hall of Fame's Blacklisting of Marvin Miller Peter Dreier Part II. Coming of Josephine Morhard: The First Lady of Boys' Baseball Ruth Hanford Morhard The First Game as a Rite of Passage: Implications for American Culture Mark L. Pelesh Part III. Baseball in the Hinterlands Becoming New Englanders: Immigrants, Sports, and Connecticut Yankees in Mid-Twentieth Century America R.A.R. Edwards Bringing Canadian Baseball Out of Hockey's Shadow Robert Elias Part IV. The Catchers-Masked Blackball's "Ironman": Catcher Larry Brown Keith B. Wood Moe Berg and the Media: Competing Interpretations of the Enigmatic Catcher-Spy William M. Simons Part V. The Minor Leagues-Past and Present Economics of Minor League Baseball, 1876-1900 Daniel R. Levitt An Age and Place as Golden as Any Other: The 1930s and 1940s Newark Bears and Eagles Curt Smith MLB-Atlantic League Agreement Rule Changes: Tinker, Not Evers, No Chance Wayne Patterson Part VI. The Game in Poetry, Prose, and Music Shubert to Ziegfeld to White: Baseball in Broadway Musical Revues, 1908-1922 Jeffrey M. Katz Jack Kerouac and Fantasy Baseball Thomas Wolf "A Great Slow Contraption": Baseball in the Writings of Michael Chabon Richard J. Puerzer Birds on the Bat and Squirrels on the Field: The St. Louis Cardinals in the Postseason Joseph Stanton Index
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