The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 1998

This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the Tenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 1998, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame These essays, divided into sections titled "Baseball as a Business, " "Baseball and Communication, " "Baseball and Racial and Ethnic Perspectives, " "Baseball and Gender Matters, " "Baseball and Images" and "The Other Leagues of Baseball, " cut through the quick and eas judgments of the media and offer instead the longer, more informed view of scholars and researchers.