A Century of Cooperstown, together with two issues of magazines devoted to Cooperstown
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Fruehling Springwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0429720858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy what magic is a simple geographical space such as a city or town transformed into cultural significance, into a "place" people travel to, enshrine, mythologize, and consume? What stardust falls upon the ground and in the public's mind that moves us to worship a piece of property that was once an unremarkable field or vacant lot? This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York–home of the Baseball Hall of Fame–and Dyersville, Iowa–site of the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of Dreams. Charles Springwood provides insight into the postmodern culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the people who visit them. The results of his interviews with visitors to these sites speak to issues of youth, innocence, family, domesticity, nation, and the hegemonic practices of the "leisure class." The book provides a reading of America steeped in narratives of pastoralism and nostalgia. Behind it all (the curtain behind which the great wizard sits) is the corporate mind creating an atmosphere of false histories and reconstructed pasts. Springwood pulls the reader's heart in two directions, seeking to honor the beautiful myth of baseball's pastoralism through two sacred geographical sites while also seeking to expose the underpinnings of myth-making to a gentle but constant light.
Author: Tom Stanton
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 260
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Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781258316327
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780785314387
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781561738687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian H. Hummel
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 94
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Published: 1999
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mickey McDermott
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2003-04
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1623681537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir by the 1940s pitching sensation looks back at a career playing for thirteen teams in four countries from the 1940s to the 1960s.