Bücher der Reihe Cooperstown Symposium Series

Presents an anthology of seventeen scholarly essays that utilize the US national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark. The anthology is divided into: Baseball Poetry, Music, and Literature; Myths, Legends, and Icons of the Game; Asian and Asian-American Baseball; Museums: Baseball Exhibits, Standards, and Preservation; Contracts, Jurisprudence, and the Pastime.

An anthology of 15 scholarly essays that utilize the US national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark. The anthology is divided into six parts. ""Biography: From Mythology to Authenticity", ""Gender and Generations", ""Race and Ethnicity on the Base Paths", Ballparks Abandoned and Envisioned", ""Baseball Cinema"", and ""Business, Law, and the Game"".

Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 essays examines topics whose importance extend beyond the ballpark.

This text is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. The papers focus on the antecendents of baseball and the early history of American's national pastime.