Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2007-2008

William M. Simons is professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      IntroductionWilliam M. Simons      PART I: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE GAMEThe Baseball Reliquary: The Left Coast’s Alternative to Interpreting Baseball HistoryJean Hastings Ardell      Durocher as Machiavelli: Bad Catholic, Good AmericanJeffrey Marlett      PART II: LITERARY BASEBALLHomecoming: Family, Place, and Community in Sara Vogan’s In Shelly’s Leg and Thomas Oliphant’s Praying for Gil HodgesThomas Wolf      Now Batting—Peter Pan: Jim Bouton’s Ball Four and Baseball’s Boyish CultureElizabeth V. O’Connell      “Chasing Moonlight” Through Fiction, Film, and Fact: The Evolution of a BiographyBrett Friedlander and R.W. Reising      PART III: BASEBALL AT THE MOVIESPatriot’s Game? Images of American Nationalism in Baseball FilmsRobert Rudd and Marshall Most      The Dark Side of the American Dream: Ron Shelton’s CobbRon Briley      PART IV: MINORITY STANDARD BEARERSNo Dummies: Deafness, Baseball, and American CultureR.A.R. Edwards      Asians and Baseball: The Breaking and Perpetuating of StereotypesTerumi Rafferty-Osaki      PART V: NEW LEAGUESBuilding a League One Dollar at a Time: The Story of the Immediate Success of the American LeagueMichael J. Haupert and Kenneth Winter      The Israel Baseball League and the Jewish DiasporaWilliam M. Simons      PART VI: THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALLBaseball’s Ultimate Umpires: Labor Arbitration in Our National GameRoger I. Abrams      Taxing the Fan Who Catches the Ball: Looking Back on Record-Breakers, the 1998 Season and the IRS’s Turn at the PlatePatricia L. Bryan      The Role of Agents in BaseballPaul D. Staudohar      The Brave DepartureMichael Civille      The Great Dodgers Pitching Tandem Strikes a Blow for Salaries: The 1966 Drysdale-Koufax Holdout and Its Impact on the GameEd Edmonds      Index