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 2008 and 2009 conferences are published in the present work.</p><p> Topics covered include religion; class and racial dichotomies in the literature of cricket and baseball; re-reading <I>The Natural</I> in the 21st century; the feminist movement; Don DeLillo's <I>Game 6</I>; baseball in <I>Seinfeld</I>; Robert B. Parker; Harry Stein's <I>Hoopla</I>; Negro league owner Tom Wilson's impact on Nashville; Major League Baseball's postwar boom; and overwrought baseball editorials among others.</p>