Description |
1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
McFarland Classics (Series) |
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McFarland Classics (Series)
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Contents |
Baseball lives in the Depression Era / Charles C. Alexander -- Country baseball on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1867-1921 / Martin Payne -- Pitcher at twilight : Bill Monbouquette and the American dream / William M. Simons -- The segregation of professional baseball in Kansas, 1895-1899 : a case study in the rise of Jim Crow during the Gilded Age / Gregory Bond -- Engineering baseball : Branch Rickey's innovative approach to baseball management / Richard J. Puerzer -- The pitch men : Ty Cobb, Yogi Berra, and Cal Ripken, Jr. / Roberta Newman -- Assessing outcomes of baseball labor negotiations / Paul D. Staudohar -- Letting the gini out of the bottle : a look at inequality in Major League Baseball since 1985 / Brian O'Roark and G. Dirk Mateer -- In the tradition of Jackie Robinson : Ozzie Virgil and the integration of the Detroit Tigers / Rob Briley -- Jim Crows of a feather : a comparison of the segregation and desegregation eras in professional baseball and football / Alan H. Levy -- The social significance of sport : implications for race and baseball / Doris R. Corbett and Wayne Patterson -- Blacks in baseball : up from neglect to center stage / Joseph Dorinson -- Baseball and Ernest Hemingway / Peter W. Dowell and Lee A. Pederson -- The Black press and the integration of baseball : when to stop the cheering / Brian Carroll -- Portrayals of racial minorities in baseball films / Robert Rudd and Marshall G. Most -- When New York was the capital of baseball : remembering Bob Cooke and the Herald Tribune / Oren Renick -- Types and archetypes : the characters of baseball / George Grella -- The changing language of baseball writers in historical context, 1900-2001 / Arline F. Schubert and George W. Schubert -- On being gay in Major League Baseball / Russell Hollander -- When baseball players wore skirts : the promotion of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League / Andi Stein -- Baseball heroes and femme fatales / Charles DeMotte -- Baseball and its appeal to older Americans / David C. Ogden and Michael L. Hilt -- Believing in baseball : the religious power of our national pastime / Thomas F. Dailey -- Theology and celebrity : how celebrity affects the practice of faith in baseball / Peggy Beck |
Notes |
Papers of the fourteenth symposium held June 5-7, 2002 and co-sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the State University of New York at Oneonta |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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Baseball -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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Baseball
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Baseball -- Social aspects
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hall, Alvin L
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Simons, William M
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State University of New York College at Oneonta.
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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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ISBN |
9780786481712 |
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0786481714 |
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