The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2001

This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the Thirteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 6-8, 2001, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York These essays, divided into sections titled "Mythic Heroes, " "Media Mythology, " "Myth and Mystery" and "Myths in Progress, " go beyond the quick and easy judgments of the media and offer instead the longer, more informed view of scholars and researchers.