1st Edition
Cooperstown To Dyersville A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia
By Charles Fruehling Springwood
Copyright 1996
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York—home of the Baseball Hall of Fame—and Dyersville, Iowa—site of the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of Dreams. .
Performing Place -- Invented and Contested Baseball Traditions -- Cooperstown, New York -- Dyersville, Iowa -- Dad, Wanna have a Catch? -- Space and The Geographical Imagination: -- Home is a White Surface in the Shape of a House -- National Baseball Hall of Fame Election Rules -- credits