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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Baseball and memory
    sub title: winning, losing, and the remembrance of things past
  name:
    name part: Congdon, Lee
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 140 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this historical/philosophical reflection, Lee Congdon writes of the ways in which baseball spurs memory. This is particularly important at a time when many Americans suffer from a form of amnesia that renders them defenseless in the face of concerted efforts to seize possession of the past. "Who controls the past controls the future," George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four, "who controls the present controls the past." Baseball can, and does, stand in the way of those whose ambition it is to gain and maintain power by pretending that memory cannot be trusted. What was once thought to be "the past" was merely a fiction that served the interests of a ruling class. This, Congdon argues, is asself-serving as it is untrue. Memory can play tricks on us, but, supported as it often is by confirming evidence, it alone can tell us who we are - and more. When we remember important moments and players from the game's past, we soon discover that they are inextricably intertwined with particular eras in our common history, such as Babe Ruth and the Jazz Age, Joe DiMaggio and the country at war, Willie Mays and the 1950s. In often revelatory ways, those eras come alive again, and as a result we gain greater self-understanding, as individuals and as a people. Although he draws upon the entire history of baseball, Congdon focuses primarily on the decade of the 1950s because he believes it to have been the game's golden age, and a far better time in the nation's history than Americans have been taught to think. Baseball's continual invitation to communal remembrance can, he concludes, help us to avoid the fate reserved for those who forget.
  note: Lee Congdon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Memory
  classification: GV863.A1 C5937 2011
  classification: 796.3570973
  identifier: 9781587310638 (hardback)
  identifier: 1587310635 (hardback)
  identifier: 2011009658
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110311
    record change date: 20151202122758.0
    record identifier: in00002698196