The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021

William M. Simons is a professor of history at the State University of New York–Oneonta.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

William M. Simons

Part I. Missed Calls—Umpires and Electors

“Nobody’s Perfect”: Armando Galarraga’s (Im)Perfect Game

and Instant Replay

Todd F. McDorman and Donovan Bisbee

Rigged Elections: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Blacklisting

of Marvin Miller

Peter Dreier

Part II. Coming of

Josephine Morhard: The First Lady of Boys’ Baseball

Ruth Hanford Morhard

The First Game as a Rite of Passage: Implications for

American Culture

Mark L. Pelesh

Part III. Baseball in the Hinterlands

Becoming New Englanders: Immigrants, Sports, and

Connecticut Yankees in Mid–Twentieth Century America

R.A.R. Edwards

Bringing Canadian Baseball Out of Hockey’s Shadow

Robert Elias

Part IV. The Catchers—Masked

Blackball’s “Ironman”: Catcher Larry Brown

Keith B. Wood

Moe Berg and the Media: Competing Interpretations

of the Enigmatic ­Catcher-Spy

William M. Simons

Part V. The Minor Leagues—Past and Present

Economics of Minor League Baseball, 1876–1900

Daniel R. Levitt

An Age and Place as Golden as Any Other: The 1930s

and 1940s Newark Bears and Eagles

Curt Smith

­MLB-Atlantic League Agreement Rule Changes: Tinker,

Not Evers, No Chance

Wayne Patterson

Part VI. The Game in Poetry, Prose, and Music

Shubert to Ziegfeld to White: Baseball in Broadway

Musical Revues, 1908–1922

Jeffrey M. Katz

Jack Kerouac and Fantasy Baseball

Thomas Wolf

“A Great Slow Contraption”: Baseball in the Writings

of Michael Chabon

Richard J. Puerzer

Birds on the Bat and Squirrels on the Field:

The St. Louis Cardinals in the Postseason

Joseph Stanton

Index