Symposium: Baseball and American Culture

A few days ago the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum posted its program for the upcoming symposium on Baseball and American Culture.  Some of the panel topics include:

Baseball in Uniform:  America's Pastime at War

Here's the Pitch:  Business, Economics and Labor (featuring a paper that was the topic of this post, proof yet again of the "Lounge bump"!)

Red, White and Black:  Baseball in Fiction

Swing Away:  Baseball in Music, Theater, and Religion

Memorabilia and Popular Culture

Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson:  Baseball's Great Experiment

Pedagogy:  Baseball in the Classroom

Views on the Fourth Estate

Readers interested in the symposium (to be held in Cooperstown on June 2-4) can find a complete schedule and registration information here.   Related story here.

Comments

[Howard Wasserman]

I presented here a few years ago. It is a great program and uniquely multi-disciplined. Everything revolves around the common theme and language of baseball, so everyone really can talk to everyone else.