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Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game
Baseball as America Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game Author:Kevin Mulroy (Editor) The official companion, filled with original and archival photographs, to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's groundbreaking four-year travelling exhibition, pays tribute to America's favorite national pasttime by featuring over thirty essays by writers, players, scholars, and fans, revealing how baseball has had a profound impact on th... more »e evolution of American culture.
Our national spirit (From God's country and mine) / Jacques Barzun --
Baseball is our game ; To the patriotic lovers of America's game / Walt Whitman --
Spalding's Commission / Tom Shieber and Ted Spencer --
Baseball in Japan : the national pastime beyond national character / William Kelly --
The rise of the World Series / Neil Harris --
Letter from military prison / Albert D. Richardson --
Green light letter / Franklin Delano Roosevelt --
The front lines to the backyard / Tom Brokaw --
Baseball in a time of crisis / Allan H. (Bud) Selig) --
Ideals and injustices (From History of colored baseball / Sol White --
This morning / Shirley Povich --
Letter of invitation / F.H. LaGuardia --
It didn't happen overnight / Buck O'Neil. Baseball and ethnicity / Steven Riess --
From my baseball years / Philip Roth --
Induction speech / Ted Williams --
World Series speech / Jackie Robinson --
Roberto Clemente : activist and pioneer / Bruce Markusen --
Baseball migrants : dreaming in Dominican / Milton Jamail --
Enjoying it hugely / Annie Glidden --
Diamonds for girls / C.C. Johnson Spink --
Muscle in the Bud / Barbara Gregorich)--
Rooting for the team (From The natural / Bernard Malamud --
Obituary of Elizabeth Dooley / Dan Shaughnessy --
Music of the sphere / Tim Wiles --
Fathers eating hot dogs with sons / Molly O'Neill --
Leave the plate at home / Charles Camp --
A gift / Michael Chabon --
Why the Minnesota Twins have such big heads / Karal Ann Marling --
From raising demons / Shirley Jackson. Growing up with the game / John Grisham --
Our national pastime / Dave Barry --
The minors : touching the American heart / David Lamb --
We never called them bums / Roger Kahn --
The language of numbers / Bill James --
You, too, can be a general manager! / Daniel Okrent) --
Enterprise and opportunity (Never far from the counting house / Warren Jay Goldstein --
A ball, a bat, and a bet / Eliot Asinof --
The peculiar business of baseball / Andrew Zimbalist --
Leveling the playing field / Gary S. Becker --
From Standing the Gaff / Harry "Steamboat" Johnson --
Umpires and rules / Larry Gerlach --
A can of beer, a slice of cake--and thou, Eddie Gaedel from Veeck as in wreck / Bill Veeck and Ed Linn --
Beyond the bleachers : enhancing the fan experience / David Rockwell --
Baubles, bangles, and bubble gum : baseball collectibles / Richard Merkin and Lawrence S. Ritter. Fighting the reserve clause / Curt Flood/Bowie Kuhn) --
Sharing a common culture (Casey at bat / Ernest L. Thayer --
The big show on the big screen / Joshua Siegel --
Reflections on The natural / Barry Levinson with Joshua Siegel --
A league of our own / Penny Marshall, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel --
Baseball as art : the American vernacular / Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer --
Charlie Brown : American baseball icon / John Odell --
On the air / Curt Smith) --
Invention and ingenuity (About second basemen / Bid McPhee --
Pitching and hitting curveballs / Robert K. Adair --