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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Carino |
| ISBN: | 0786418516 9780786418510 |
| OCLC Number: | 54425096 |
| Notes: | "Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball a literary subject matter and cultural institution. Nineteen essays presented at the 2002 and 2003 ISU conferences are published in this work."--Back cover. |
| Description: | vii, 213 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Peter Carino -- Part I : Baseball in literature and film -- 1. A field of questions : W.P. Kinsella comes to Ithaca / Andrew Anderson -- 2. Jon Billman's "Indians" and American Indian exhibition baseball teams / Jeffrey Powers-Beck -- 3. "Dad--Can we have a catch?" Images of fatherhood and redemption in three baseball films / Scott Jensen and Joseph Schuster -- 4. Mick Cochrane's "Sport" and the mythic symbol of fathers playing catch with sons / Matthew C. Brennan -- 5. Nelson Algren's Chicago : the Black Sox scandal, McCarthyism, and the truth about Cubs fans / Andy Hazucha -- 6. "You don't play the angles, you're a sap" : John Sayles, Eliot Asinof, baseball, labor, and Chicago in 1919 / Warren Tormey -- 7. "The proper distance for worship" : art worlds and assimilation narratives in "The Celebrant" / Ronald Kates -- 8. Nine assists and no errors : rediscovering the baseball fiction of Charles Van Loan / Trey Strecker -- Part II : Baseball in American culture -- 9. Baseball, scholarship, and the "Duty to justice" / Frank D. Rashid -- 10. Is baseball an American religion? a sociological analysis / Toby Ziglar -- 11. Home run derby versus the pitchers' duel : could the need for instant gratification ruin baseball? / Joan M. Thomas -- 12. (Caray)³ : baseball as narrated on television / Gerald C. Wood -- 13. Baseball immortals : character and performance on and off the field / Ron Rembert -- 14. Forces of darkness and light : the cultural significance of transitions in baseball history / David Shiner -- 15. Lessons to be learned from "Only the ball was white" : similarities between the Negro leagues and African-Americans in baseball today / David C. Ogden -- 16. From "Game winning home run" to "Walk-off" : baseball jargon and the discourse of modern American life / William A. Lehn -- 17. Nineteenth-century and Black baseball in Indianapolis / W.C. Madden -- 18. Interviewing a local legend : Preacher Roe and Ozark culture / Dave Malone -- 19. Which ball is in play? Lasting images of Stan Musial at Wrigley Field / Robert E. Meyer. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter Carino. |
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