Understanding Baseball: A Textbook - Softcover

Strecker, Trey; Gietschier, Steven P.; Nathanson, Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786476311 ISBN 13: 9780786476312

Publisher: McFarland & Co, 2015

Synopsis

The study of baseball history and culture reveals the national game as a contested field where debates about sport, character, work and play, the country and the city, labor, race, and a host of other issues, circulate. Understanding baseball, then, calls for careful consideration of several different perspectives and what each contributes to the conversation. Intended as a readable textbook for undergraduates (and perhaps advanced high school students) and their instructors, Understanding Baseball is designed to offer insights and inroads into baseball history as a rewarding academic subject worthy of careful scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach to baseball - in this edition, history, economics, media, law, and fiction - and covers representative questions scholars from that academic field might consider.

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Review

Well written, professional, reliable, excellent bibliographies. It is not surprising that a baseball book described as 'a textbook' should appear under the label of McFarland, whose baseball list is unequaled. This is a useful volume for anyone who wishes to embark on a serious examination of what has developed into a serious academic field. Recommended"--Choice.

About the Author

Trey Strecker is an assistant professor of English and sports studies at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA. He is the editor of the scholarly journal NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture and has published two anthologies.

Steven P. Gietschier is an associate professor of history at Lindenwood University, USA where he is also university curator at the Margaret Leggat Butler Library. As an archivist and managing editor with The Sporting News, Gietschier managed its research center from 1986 until 2008, wrote the annual “Year in Review” essay in The Baseball Guide, and edited The Complete Baseball Record Book for five years. His articles and reviews have appeared in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture, The Baseball Research Journal, and the Journal of Sport History.

Lifelong Phillies fan Mitchell Nathanson is an associate professor of legal writing at Villanova University School of Law in Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA.

John A. Fortunato is a professor at Fordham University in New York, USA in the School of Business, Area of Communication and Media Management. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

David George Surdam is an associate professor of economics at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. He has published books on the economics of the American Civil War and Major League Baseball during the postwar era.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0786476311
• ISBN 13: 9780786476312
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220