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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction (William M. Simons)

Part I:Baseball Poetry, Music, and Literature

Baseball, Casey, and Me delete(Frank Deford)

"The Band Is Playing Somewhere": Unpacking the Music of "Casey at the Bat" (Timothy A. Johnson)

Towards a History of the Baseball Poem (Joseph Stanton)

Part II:The Ballpark: Place and Atmosphere

Back to the Future: Building a Ballpark, Not a Stadium (Janet Marie Smith)

Ballpark Advertising ­Decade-by-Decade-and the Impact on the Fan Experience and Team Branding (Edward Mayo, John Weitzel and Dobb Mayo)

Food Concessions and ­Middle-Class Identification at Baseball Games, 1900-1950 (Seth S. Tannenbaum)

The Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say About Baseball: How George Carlin Explains the Relative Lack of Spectator Violence in U.S. Professional Sport (Martin Lewison)

Part III:Myths, Legends, and Icons of the Game

Greenberg at the Bat: A ­Twenty-First Century Jewish Moonlight Graham (William M. Simons)

Superstition and Ritual as Strength-or "Keep brushing those teeth between innings, Turk Wendell" (Matthew R. Yeazel)

The Big Leagues on the Big Screen: Character, Culture, and the Mythology of the Majors in the Hollywood Baseball Film (Robert Repici)

Part IV:Asian and ­Asian-American Baseball

Battered but Not Broken: Baseball and Masculinity at Tule Lake, 1942-1946 (Terumi ­Rafferty-Osaki)

A Strategic Approach for Baseball to Flourish in Modern China (Keith Spalding Robbins)

Part V:Museums: Baseball Exhibits, Standards, and Preservation

Mrs. Jack-Art Collector, Muse, Mentor, and Mascot: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Boston Red Sox (Jay Hurd)

Preservation of Integrity or Succumbing to the Pressures of the Electronic Media: The Moral and Statistical Conundrums on the Horizon for the Baseball Hall of Fame (Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.)

"One for the Books": (Re)Constructing Baseball History, Memory, and Community (Todd F. McDorman)

Part VI:Contracts, Jurisprudence, and the Pastime

Pine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire's Perspective on the ­Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate (William Blake)

The Nation's Strongest Union: Marvin Miller, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and the Labor Movement in the 1970s (Ron Briley)

Index