Baseball Literature Culture
Take me out to the ballgame: Emory class on baseball and culture
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The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment $8.87 Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior…. |
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Is This Heaven?: The Magic of the Field of Dreams $9.28 More than a decade ago, the film Field of Dreams made grown men cry with its tale of a son’s quest to know his father through the magic of baseball. The mystical baseball field of that movie continues to attract thousands of visitors and here is the story of a make-believe place made real, its incredible lure, and its effect on the people who have stepped between its chalk lines…. |
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Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture $24.22 “… McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack (several of which are aimed at his beloved, and beleaguered, Montreal Expos). Literary baseball may be a drastically over-analyzed subject, but, like an overachieving rookie, McGrimpsey produces a far better book on it than one would have ever thought possible.” —Louis Jacobson, Washington Post”This i… |