Cooperstown To Dyersville: A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia

by Charles Fruehling Springwood

Overview

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. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367160074
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Springwood (anthropology, Luther College, Iowa) provides insight into the postmodern culture of the US in which tourist sites, particularly Cooperstown, New York (home of the Baseball Hall of Fame) and Dyersville, Iowa (site of the Field of Dreams baseball field), are both culturally produced and consumed. His study is based on interviews with the visitors to these sites and touch on such topics as youth, innocence, family, domesticity, nation, and the hegemonic practices of the "leisure class." Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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