Download or read book Women Characters in Baseball Literature written by Kathleen Sullivan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-05-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities of great athletes, as well as created original characters for sports stories. How have women fared in this literature? Women Characters in Baseball Literature is the first comprehensive evaluation of the women characters of baseball literature, including women’s crucial roles on and off the field of play. Applying several feminist theories and examining the works in the context of both myth and psychology, the author discusses baseball fiction written by both men and women. Among the topics discussed are the literary implications of motherhood; how patterns of behavior in women characters often recall Greek goddesses; and how women characters and the feminist imagination enrich the literature of this apparently masculinized sport. Authors covered include Bernard Malamud, Mark Harris, August Wilson, Lamar Herrin, Nancy Willard, Silvia Tennenbaum, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.
Download or read book From the Grandstands to the Dugout written by Kathleen Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Grandstands to the Dugout written by Kathleen Sullivan Porter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseball Literature Culture written by Peter Carino and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Eighteen essays presented at the 2004 and 2005 ISU conferences are published in this work. In "Baseball is a Place: Reflections On Building a Baseball Novel," novelist Mick Cochrane discusses writing a baseball novel, using his 2002 novel Sport to exemplify the process. Tracy Collins, in "Women, American Society, and Baseball Literature in the High Cannon," examines the ways in which canonical baseball novels are obliged to exclude women. In "'A Grim Harvest': Baseball's Changing of the Guard, 1931," Steve Gietschier shows baseball progressing from the tenuous agreements of the early modern era to become a stable urban business ready to take on the challenges of the mid-century. Joan Thomas's "Baseball and America, a Timeless Love Story" muses on the ways in which fans' relationship with baseball is like that of the lover to the beloved, irrational, forgiving, even maddening but always total. Fourteen other essays on the literature and culture of the game take on topics that include Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige, August Wilson's Fences, baseball's long connection with presidents, its even longer connection with tobacco, and the virtue of cheering Chicago's Cubs.
Download or read book Belle of the Ball written by Norman Keifetz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle Fortman is a feisty, curious, intelligent woman who is determined to break into a traditional world controlled by men who will go to extremes to exclude herprofessional baseball. Against all odds, shes determined to become the first woman umpire in the Major Leagues. In this endeavor, she faces obstaclesfrom setbacks in umpiring school to travails in her life and on the field as she moves up the minor league system, from tank town sandlot games to Triple A, longing for an assignment in the Majors. Along the way, Belle falls in love and runs into characters readers get to know so well that theyll feel theyve actually met them. The author has the uncanny skill to make the strangest, most unlikely characters seem so compellingly real.
Download or read book She s on First written by Barbara Gregorich and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Sunshine may be ready for baseball, but baseball may not be ready for her--and her lifelong dream could get spiked by the battles in her own dugout. But a savvy young sports writer knows news when he hears it, talent when he sees it, and love when it hits him.
Download or read book Gendering the National Pastime written by Ayesha Shariff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catcher and the Lie written by Rita Oberlies and published by Samhain Pub Limited. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a year of personal and professional upheaval Nick Valente is in the market for redemption, not temptation. Getting involved with any woman, especially smart-mouthed Abby McCabe, is simply not in this players game plan. Experience, mostly bad, has convinced Abby McCabe that she has a special gift for finding men who cant help falling out of love with her. Getting close to a man, especially one who plays the field professionally, is sure to add another loss to her emotional score sheet. With Nick on the bench, its up to Abby to turn the game around. Trusting this man with her heart could deliver the biggest save of her lifeor the biggest error she ever made. Will they strike out or end up with a homerun? Warning, this title contains the following: a hot baseball player with all-star equipment, a smack talking woman who doesnt know the score, and a world class collection of inflatable dolls.
Download or read book Invisible Ball of Dreams written by Emily Ruth Rutter and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), Black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, Black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring Black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.
Download or read book Diamonds Are a Girl s Best Friend written by Elinor Nauen and published by . This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers for the first time essays, poems, short stories, & excerpts from novels & memoirs by women -- all touching on the subject of baseball, both as a game played by men & watched by women, & as a game played by themselves. 66 contributors including Annie Dillard, Ann Hood, Shirley Jackson, Marianne Moore, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Anna Quindlen, & May Swenson treat baseball as a cultural phenomenon, a personal experience, a childhood memory, & explore what it means to be a fan, to watch a male player from a female perspective, & to appreciate the intricacies of this all-American game. A perceptive, witty, often moving collection.
Download or read book 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die written by Ron Kaplan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable--vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they're missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.
Download or read book A League of Their Own written by Sarah Gilbert and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the nation's men are overseas fighting in World War II, a group of women keep the national pastime alive by forming the All-American Girls Baseball League. Original. Movie tie-in.
Download or read book Fifty Four Ways written by Katherine Cobb and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when four middle-aged baseball moms with kids on the same team begin reading the sex-fueled book Fifty Shades of Grey? As countrified Lynn would say, they get "hotter than a June bride" and are catapulted into unexpectedly assessing their sex lives, desires and satisfaction with their husbands. Kelli feels neglected by a spouse who'd rather prep for doomsday than be intimate. Her best friend Mel struggles to find the courage to overcome her shyness and body issues in the bedroom and reach the promised land. Candy, already isolated with her trophy wife status, suspects her husband is having an affair. Lynn, whose candid confessions in the concession stand got the whole ball rolling, wants to take things to a kinkier level but will have to convince her man to go along for the ride. Inspired by true events and told from each woman's perspective, you'll experience their lives firsthand--including that delicious peek behind closed doors! 4 out of 4 stars Fifty, Four Ways by Katherine Cobb travels back to the time when Fifty Shades of Grey was just starting to take off and make waves. The story follows four women, all mothers with sons on the baseball team, and how their experiences with the book make them question their desires and satisfaction in their marriages. I usually have a hard time telling characters apart at the beginning of books, but the author helpfully started each chapter with a little picture related to that character's life. For example, the chapters in Candy's point of view, the plastic surgeon's wife, always started with a picture of two cantaloupes. I'll let you guess why. Not only did the pictures help me straighten out the characters and their families quickly, but I felt a little jolt every time I saw the pictures and thought, "Finally! I was wondering what would happen next with her!" I loved all the characters but the four main women were true stars, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Also, I loved how they each started reading the series with the same expectations, but they took away different lessons. There was a lot of character growth, with a touch of drama. Fifty, Four Ways is more interesting than Sex and the City and ten times more interesting than the series that inspired it! I felt emotionally moved and lifted by these women and have learned so much that I plan on implementing in my own marriage. I would highly recommend it to any woman of marrying age, whether she enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey or not. There are some steamy scenes, but nothing too scandalous. Honestly, it was one of the best books I've read in a long, long time. I have absolutely no complaints, although I do wish it could have been longer! Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll be made into a movie, just like with Fifty Shades of Grey. Katherine Cobb is a wonderful, funny author. I can't wait to read more of her work! --Online Book Club
Download or read book The Black Prince of Baseball written by Donald Dewey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America lurched into the twentieth century, its national pastime was afflicted with the same moral malaise that was enveloping the rest of the nation. Players regularly bet on games, games were routinely fixed, and league politics were as dirty as the base paths. Against this backdrop, Hal Chase emerged as one of the game's greatest players and also as one of its most scandalous characters. With charisma and bravado that earned him the nickname The Prince, Chase charmed his way across America, spinning lies in the afternoon, dealing high-stakes poker at night, and gambling with beautiful women until dawn. Most notoriously of all, he undermined his stature as the era's greatest first baseman by conniving with gamblers to fix games and draw teammates into his diamond conspiracies. But as Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella reveal in their groundbreaking biography, The Black Prince of Baseball, Chase was also a scapegoat for baseball notables with hands even dirtier than his. These included league officials who ignored facts in an attempt to pin the 1919 Black Sox scandal on him and--a previously unknown twist--the fabled John McGraw, who perjured himself on a witness stand against the first baseman. Although Chase, contrary to popular belief, was never banned from the major leagues, meticulous research by the authors implicates him in other shady enterprises as well, not least an attempt to blackmail revivalist Aimee Semple McPherson. As The Black Prince of Baseball makes clear, in his protean talents and larcenies, Hal Chase personified all the excesses of Ragtime.
Download or read book Ninth Man II written by Bill Pennabaker and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a woman make it to the major leagues? In this much anticipated sequel to the beloved book, The Ninth Man, Ninth Man II: The First Woman continues with the saga of Casey Collins, a female baseball player who is striving to become the first woman to make it to the major leagues. As Casey attempts to make history, she unintentionally ignites this generation's battle of the sexes. The stakes are raised as a legion of young girls and women rally to support Casey in her quest, and her fear of letting down "her girls" far outweighs any fear of a 95-mph fastball. While the core cast from The Ninth Man remains, many new characters are introduced. Some are favorable to Casey; others are not. Included are a legendary pitcher straight out of a Leroy Neiman portrait, a woman from Nigeria with piercing eyes and a wit to match, and Tomasino Hawk, the major league's only Native American player. Follow Casey Collins and this diverse cast of characters as the issues of baseball and life collide. As it was with The Ninth Man, Ninth Man II: The First Woman is about more than baseball. Much more.
Download or read book Baseball Literature Culture written by Peter Carino and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. This work is comprised of 18 essays from the ISU conferences of 1995 through 2001. "I Just Hit .300-Time to Renegotiate My Contract" explores how major American writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ellison have challenged the pastoral idea of baseball envisioned by Whitman. "The Durable Relic" argues that Donald Hall, one of the foremost poets of today, uses baseball in much the same way that William Butler Yeats used Irish mythology to create "frozen moments, unchanging and durable; ageless heroes, Oisin on the Island of Eternal Youth and Ruth pointing to centerfield." "Baseball, the Market and the Public" analyzes the tension between the game as a business and the game as public trust, tracking the game to its present state of overpaid players and greedy owners. "The Story of Toni Stone" considers race and gender in both the game and culture by looking at one of the most remarkable but least known women in the sport, the only one to play in the Negro Leagues. These are just four of the essays, which cover a wide variety of topics.
Download or read book The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2000 written by William M. Simons and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of 19 papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 7-9, 2000 and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Capped by Roger Kahn's essay on the rise and fall of great baseball prose, this Symposium plumbed such topics as baseball in the classroom, the national pastime and American Christianity, corporate encroachment, and the difficult course pursued by a Negro League team owner who also happened to be white and female. These essays, divided into sections titled "Baseball and Culture," "Baseball as History," "The Business of Baseball" and "Race, Gender and Ethnicity in the National Pastime," cut through the quick and easy judgments of the media and offer instead the longer, more informed view of scholars and researchers.
