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050 00 $aPS374.B37$bM35 1997
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100 1 $aMorris, Timothy,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94040404
245 10 $aMaking the team :$bthe cultural work of baseball fiction /$cTimothy Morris.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axii, 190 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSport and society
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.
505 0 $aEverybody wants to play for the Yankees -- "I do not mean fairy love" -- "I was in America and my job was to speak English" -- Hitting the bell curve -- But is it literature?
520 $aTimothy Morris examines the cultural implications of baseball novels, focusing on four themes - assimilation, heterosexuality, language, and meritocracy - from among many possibilities "because they are particularly problematic issues for America and Americanists in the mid-1990s.".
520 8 $aWhile Making the Team deals with canonical works such as The Natural and Bang the Drum Slowly, it devotes equal attention to juvenile novels by John Tunis (The Kid from Tomkinsville, Young Razzle) and others. Throughout, Morris considers how the ideals of manliness, courage, competitiveness, athleticism, whiteness, and standard English - of "Americanness" in its many facets - have been embodied in fictional characters for readers of different ages and in different eras.
520 8 $aHe concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.
650 0 $aBaseball stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107008
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100444
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417
650 0 $aAssimilation (Sociology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008593
650 0 $aMaturation (Psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006181
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85042582
650 0 $aHeterosexuality in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008586
650 0 $aSocial status in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008642
830 0 $aSport and society.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86728384
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS374.B37$iM35 1997