Research Catalog

Title

Baseball/literature/culture : essays, 1995-2001 / edited by Peter Carino.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C : McFarland & Co., c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Carino, Peter.
• Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture.

Description

vi, 205 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• Baseball > United States
• Baseball in literature
• Baseball stories, American > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

God, gambling, and the game / Deanne Westbrook -- "I Just Hit .300 -- time to renegotiate my contract" : baseball as a symbol of capitalism in Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ellison / Greg Ahrenhoerster -- Hemingway's Black Sox stories / Fred Robbins -- The Dixie Association : where Jefferson Davis and Martin Luther King intersect / Caroline Carvill -- "HBP -- Runners Advance" : postmodernism and baseball in Richard Ford's Independence Day / Christopher York -- The durable relic : time, poetry, baseball, and Donald Hall / Steve Connelly -- "The afternoon of my imagination" : rhetorical consideration in the contemporary baseball essay / Crosby Hunt -- James T. Farrell's my baseball diary : the memoirs of a radical baseball lover / Andrew Anderson -- America's passed time : baseball and race in August Wilson's Fences / Keith Byerman -- Teaching baseball, teaching race : Charles Fuller's A soldier's play and August Wilson's Fences / Ronald Kates -- Playing the subs : teaching a class on literature and baseball to general education students / Frank Rotsaert -- Baseball, the market, and the public : whose interests are the "best interests"? / John Fairfield -- Baseball as national pastime revisited : and a little town shall lead them / Myles Schrag -- The field of dreams mystique : quest for the American ideal / Joan M. Thomas -- Idols and the 1934-36 Diamond Stars card set / Ron Rembert -- The story of Toni Stone : when baseball began to be truly the national pastime / Karla Farmer Stouse -- Youth League umpiring : teaching coaches, players, and parents the proper call / Ken Moon -- Baseball in a small Midwestern town : a depression kid remembers / William Bickers.

ISBN

0786416432 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003013980

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library