Cooperstown To Dyersville: A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia
- ISBN-10
- 0813326680
- ISBN-13
- 9780813326689
- Category
- Social Science / Anthropology / General
- Pages
- 217
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Avalon Publishing
- Author
- Charles Fruehling Springwood
Description
This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York - home of the Baseball Hall of Fame - and Dyersville, Iowa - site of the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of Dreams. Charles Springwood provides insight into the postmodern culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the people who visit them. The results of his interviews with visitors to these sites speak to issues of youth, innocence, family, domesticity, nation, and the hegemonic practices of the "leisure class". The book provides a reading of America steeped in narratives of pastoralism and nostalgia. Behind it all (the curtain behind which the great wizard sits) is the corporate mind creating an atmosphere of false histories and reconstructed pasts. Springwood pulls the reader's heart in two directions, seeking to honor the beautiful myth of baseball's pastoralism through two sacred geographical sites while also seeking to expose the underpinnings of myth-making to a gentle but constant light.
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