Take Me Out to the Ballgame

by Gumpert, Gary; Drucker, Susan J.

• ISBN13: 9781572733022
• ISBN10: 1572733020
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Hampton Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(20)
Susan Drucker
Gary Gumpert
PART I: COMMUNICATION IN BASEBALL
Baseball is a Storied Game	21	(16)
Jack Barwind
The Medium of Baseball	37	(34)
Lance Strate
Hot-Stove League Talk	71	(24)
Richard Buttny
Arthur D. Jensen
The Communication of Baseball Statistics	95	(22)
T. Andrew Finn
Some's Balls, Some's Strikes. Ain't Nothing 'Till I Call It: The Role of Umpires in Communicating the National Pastime	117	(16)
Dave Switzer
The Death of the Fan: Strikes, Consumers, and the Business of Baseball	133	(16)
Dale A. Herbeck
Edward M. Panetta
Baseball Carries On	149	(22)
Robert S. Brown
PART II: THE BALLPARK AND COMMUNICATION
Ballpark Rituals in 19th Century Baseball: A Reconsideration of Baseball as ``The National Pastime''	171	(30)
Jo Tavener
The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Stadium	201	(24)
Susan Drucker
Gary Gumpert
``There's No Place Like Home'': The Metaphorical Analysis of Baseball	225	(16)
Stephanie A. Westmyer
R. Pierre Rodgers
PART III: COMMUNICATING ABOUT BASEBALL
The America That Was Meant to Be: Images of Community in Baseball Films	241	(32)
Marty Most
Robert Rudd
Iconography and Sports: Images and Social Dramas in the Baseball Movies of the 1990s	273	(26)
Donald Fishman
Hitting From the Left: The Daily Worker's Assault on Baseball's Color Line	299	(18)
Chris Lamb
Kelly Rusinack
``Walker Was a Great Favorite with the Crowd'': Racial Prejudice and Press Coverage of the First Black Major League Baseball Player	317	(18)
Ralph Frasca
PART IV: WHAT BASEBALL COMMUNICATES ABOUT US
America's Most Distinctive Baseball Game: Congress Plays Hardball	335	(22)
Robert V. Friedenberg
Knowing the Score: Women as Baseball Fans	357	(20)
Stephanie B. Gibson
Women's Way of Playing	377	(24)
Susan Mallon Ross
The Grayer Side of the Game: Baseball and the ``Older'' Fan	401	(28)
Bob Krizek
Jewish Baseball Stars: Assimilation, Communication, and the Metaphor for the American Experience	429	(24)
Meir Z. Ribalow
Author Index	453	(8)
Subject Index	461