Saying It Ain't So
American Values As Revealed in Children's Baseball Stories 1880-1950
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Beschreibung
Saying It Ain't So explores the themes which emerge from popularly-read children's stories about baseball. This book examines the first piece of baseball fiction, which appeared in 1882, and was written for children. Why does baseball – more than other sports – teach values of supportiveness, responsibility, and fairness? How do children's stories bring out these values? This work reveals the unique qualities of baseball which set it apart from other sports and truly make it our national pastime.
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Debra A. Dagavarian
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«Dagavarian's analysis is useful. The structural functionalist approach is effectively utilized to indicate how baseball as a social system can provide a mechanism for socializing youth into American culture. The appendix is useful in that it provides a separate and more detailed analysis of each story. All in all, the book is worth reading.» (Sociology of Sport Journal)
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