HISTORY OF BASEBALL

Catalog description

This course explores baseball as a lens through which we may better understand American history. Since its inception, baseball has been the quintessential American game. Its rise as a pastime and institution-both locally and globally-parallels that of the United States itself, and its study reveals much about American life. This course analyzes not only how baseball reflected American politics and culture, but how it influenced them as well. To that end, this course explores topics such as American identity and mythmaking, the rise of spectacle and consumer culture, tensions between business and labor, politics of race and gender and globalization. Prerequisites: completion of an English sequence (4 credits)