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Baseball and Cultural Heritage

Name: Baseball and Cultural Heritage
Author: Gregory Ramshaw
ISBN: 9780813069401

Edited by Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon

Published by: University Press of Florida

Series: Cultural Heritage Studies

This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today, ultimately showing how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and heritage of a nation.

278 Pages6.00 × 9.0022 b/w illus, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index

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Published: October 11, 2022

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The influence of baseball heritage in society and culture

Baseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.

These essays reveal how baseball’s heritage can be a source of great enjoyment and inspiration, tracing its influence on constructed environments, such as stadiums and monuments, and food and popular culture. The contributors discuss how its heritage can be used to address social, political, and economic aims and agendas and can reveal tensions about whose past is remembered and whose is laid aside. Contributors address race and racism in the sport, representations of women in baseball, ballparks as repositories for baseball’s heritage, and the role of museums in generating the game’s heritage narrative.

Providing perspectives on the social impact and influence of baseball in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom, Baseball and Cultural Heritage shows how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and heritage of a nation.

Gregory Ramshaw, professor of parks, recreation, and tourism management at Clemson University, is the author of Heritage and Sport: An Introduction. Sean Gammon, a reader in leisure and tourism management at the University of Central Lancashire, is the coeditor of Heritage and the Olympics: People, Place and Performance.

“The relationship between baseball and heritage is addressed in a comprehensive, engaging, and informative manner in an international context. This is a valuable book for baseball scholars, sport historians, and anyone interested in the phenomena of sport heritage.”—Murray G. Phillips, editor of Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame
“An erudite compilation of cases and narratives that poetically shed light on the heritage of baseball. It is global in its appeal and highlights the inherent problems and opportunities in baseball related to politics, gender, race, identity, nostalgia, authenticity, colonialism, migration, heritage protection, and much more.”—Dallen J. Timothy, author of Cultural Heritage and Tourism: An Introduction

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Foreword: Challenging Baseball’s Traditional Heritage

Chapter 1. Introduction: People, Place, and Promotion; Exploring the Baseball/Heritage Relationship
Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon

Chapter 2. Unpacking the Embodied Baseball Spectator Experience: Intersections of Heritage and Nostalgia
Cory Kulczycki, Luke Potwarka, and Jonathon Edwards

Chapter 3. Killing Nostalgia: How Curt Flood and Henry Aaron Challenged Baseball Nostalgia
Andrew McGregor

Chapter 4. Women’s Baseball: A Story Not Told
Leslie Heaphy

Chapter 5. Physical Reminders of Empowerment: Heritage, Baseball Stadia, and African American Communities
Benjamin J. Downs and Adam G. Pfleegor

Chapter 6. The Historicization of a Heritage Icon: The Three Ages of Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon

Chapter 7. American Baseball Museums and the Politics of Meta-Narrative
Kiernan O. Gordon

Chapter 8. Baseball Heritage in Japan: A Case of the Masters Koshien
Eiji Ito, Kei Hikoji, and Makoto Chogahara

Chapter 9. Exploring the Heritage of Baseball in South Korea: The Story of Regionalism and Nationalism
Jungah Choi

Chapter 10. The “Gaijin Revolution” in Brazil: A Japanese Baseball Heritage at Risk?
Felipe Bertazzo Tobar

Chapter 11. Caribbean Series Baseball Heritage with Diasporic, Economic, and Political Implications
Thomas E. Van Hyning

Chapter 12. “Our Very Own ‘Field of Dreams’ in England’s Green and Pleasant Land”: Baseball and Heritage in Britain
Brett Lashua

Chapter 13. Movable, Removable, or Immovable? Baseball Statues and Ballpark Relocation
Chris Stride

Chapter 14. Chewing Gum, Cracker Jack, and Crab Cakes: Considering Baseball’s Food Heritage
Alana N. Seaman

Chapter 15. Extra Innings: A Conclusion; Baseball and Heritage in Times of Change
Sean Gammon and Gregory Ramshaw

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