cover image Baseball and the American Dream

Baseball and the American Dream

. M.E. Sharpe, $29.95 (328pp) ISBN 978-0-7656-0763-8

For a closer look at the cultural import of the game as it is now played and marketed, thoughtful dads (and others) can turn to Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime. University of San Francisco politics department chair and legal studies coordinator Robert Elias has compiled 23 essays that examine everything from ""Dream or Nightmare?: Baseball and the Gender Order"" and ""Left Capitola for a Fate Unknown: Harry Hooper"" to Andrei Codrescu's ""Borders and Shangri La: Orlando ( June)