'Why do some events become transcendent moments of cultural significance, while others fade into relative obscurity? This book answers that question by studying baseball, and examines why moments like Ruth's called shot have become American cultural myths, while many other players, games and events have not'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Presents a tripartite thesis - that the Orthodox religion (though not Russian Orthodox) functions as a sub-text throughout Gogol's work; that Gogol works were of a moralist vein; and that Gogol's torch was passed not to Russian Orthodox writers, but to Jewish writers of Yiddish tales...read more

Product Description: Though baseball came to embody the American spirit in the mid-20th century, it was not always that way. As America emerged from the Civil War, its citizens watched the relatively new sport of baseball with ambivalence. There were a few on-field changes from 1870 to 1900, but overall the game then was remarkably similar to the game today...read more

Product Description: Book by Carrithers, Gale H., Hardy, James D., Carrithers, Gale H., Jr., Hardy, James D., Jr. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: No team better exemplified baseball in the 19th century than the New York Giants. They were one of the league's premier teams simply because they played in the country's premier city. New York and its Giants epitomized the rise of industrialized America and the need for organized spectator diversions; they helped propel baseball into being the national pastime...read more

Product Description: Hardcover in dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Publisher's statement: "In the most comprehensive reading of Milton in over a decade, Carrithers and Hardy proceed on three assumptions: that love, in all its various and contradictory forms, is of central importance in Milton's poetry; that much of Milton's poetry is a discourse in theology, primarily Augustinian and biblically based; and that theirs will be a hermeneutic analysis of a hermeneutic text...read more