Baseball/Literature/Culture

<p> The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2006 and 2007 conferences are published in this work.</p><p> Topics covered include early baseball journalism; sportswriting as mythology; the Henry Wiggen baseball novels; fictionalized baseball broadcasts; racism religious fundamentalism patriotism and Marxism; Philip Roth's <I>The Great American Novel</I>; Zane Grey; masculinity in Richard Greenberg's <I>Take Me Out</I>; Willie Mays; <I>Northern Exposure</I>; Salvadore Dali and surrealism; baseball's economic trendsetters; Pete Rose; baseball literature in the classroom; and Jim Bunning's perfect game among others.</p>