Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction

by Timothy Morris

Book Overview

Timothy Morris examines the cultural implications of baseball novels, focusing on the themes of assimilation, heterosexuality, language, and meritocracy, because they pose particularly problematic issues for America. Morris explores canonical works like The Natural and Bang the Drum Slowly but devotes equal attention to juvenile novels by John Tunis and other authors. Throughout, Morris considers how fictional characters have embodied the ideals of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065972
• ISBN13: 9780252065972
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"