The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2009-2010

<p> <I>The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2009-2010</I> is an anthology of scholarly essays that utilize the national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark and constitute a significant academic contribution to baseball literature. The essays represent sixteen of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture held respectively on June 3-5 2009 and June 2-4 2010.</p><p> The anthology is divided into five parts: Baseball as Culture: Dance Literature National Character and Myth; Constructing Baseball Heroes; Blacks in Baseball: From Segregation to Conflicted Integration; The Enterprise of Baseball: Economics and Entrepreneurs; and Genesis and Legacy of Baseball Scholarship which features an essay written by the co-creator of baseball scholarship Dorothy Seymour Mills.</p>