The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2007-2008 (Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture)

This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Essays included employ the national pastime to comment on issues transcending the playing field, and are divided into six sections: ""Cultural Perspectives on the Game,"" ""Literary Baseball,"" ""Baseball at the Movies,"" ""Minority Standard Bearers,"" ""New Leagues,"" and ""The Business of Baseball."" Introduction / William M. Simons -- The Baseball Reliquary : The Left Coast's Alternative To Interpreting Baseball History / Jean Hastings Ardell -- Durocher As Machiavelli : Bad Catholic, Good American / Jeffrey Marlett -- Homecoming : Family, Place, And Community In Sara Vogan's In Shelley's Leg And Thomas Oliphant's Praying For Gil Hodges / Thomas Wolf -- Now Batting- Peter Pan : Jim Bouton's Ball Four And Baseball's Boyish Culture / Elizabeth V. O'connell -- Chasing Moonlight Through Fiction, Film, And Fact : The Evolution Of A Biography / Brett Friedlander And R.w. Reising -- Patriot's Game? Images Of American Nationalism In Baseball Films / Robert Rudd And Marshall Most -- The Dark Side Of The American Dream : Ron Shelton's Cobb / Ron Briley -- No Dummies : Deafness, Baseball, And American Culture / R.a.r. Edwards -- Asians And Baseball : The Breaking And Perpetuating Of Stereotypes / Terumi Rafferty-osaki -- Building A League One Dollar At A Time : The Story Of The Immediate Success Of The American League / Michael J. Haupert And Kenneth Winter -- The Israel Baseball League And The Jewish Diaspora / William M. Simons -- Baseball's Ultimate Umpires : Labor Arbitration In Our National Game / Roger I. Abrams -- Taxing The Fan Who Catches The Ball : Looking Back On Record-breakers, The 1998 Season And The Irs's Turn At The Plate / Patricia L. Bryan -- The Role Of Agents In Baseball / Paul D. Staudohar -- The Brave Departure / Michael Civille -- The Great Dodgers Pitching Tandem Strikes A Blow For Salaries : The 1996 Drysdale-koufax Holdout And Its Impact On The Game / Ed Edmonds. Edited By William M. Simons. Papers Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Symposiums Held June 6-8, 2007, And June 4-6, 2008 And Co-sponsored By The National Baseball Hall Of Fame And Museum And The State University Of New York At Oneonta. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. An anthology that gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It includes essays that employ the national pastime to comment on issues transcending the playing field. pt. 1. Cultural perspectives on the game pt. 2. Litarary baseball pt. 3. Baseball at the movies pt. 4. Minority standard bearers pt. 5. New leagues pt. 6. The business of baseball.