Journal Week 3 35 D 60-69 – F 0-59 TOTAL 100 Point totals are not definitive. Instructor reserves the right to adjust grades as he sees fit. COURSE AGENDA DAY ONE THE MYSTIQUE OF BASEBALL – Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Introduction in The Summer Game (New York: Viking Press, 1972), 291-303. [PCCommon] Roger Angell, “The Interior Stadium” Web of the in Late Innings: A Baseball Companion (New York: Simon and Schuster, Roger Angell, “The Game,” 1982), 361-379. [PCCommon] in Take Me Out: A Play (New York: Faber and Faber, 2003), 35-38. Richard Greenberg, “Mason’s monologue” [PCCommon] and the Meaning of in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport [Mostly Donald Hall, “Baseball Life,” Baseball] (New York: Laurel Books, 1986), 47-51. [PCCommon] Albert Spalding, The National Game (excerpt) in Nicholas Dawidoff, ed., Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002), 46-52. [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: Ken Burns, Baseball, Inning 1, Our Game, 1840s-1900 (excerpt) on First You Tube: Abbott & Costello Who’s DAY TWO AND RULES – BASEBALL’S ORIGINS Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 1 Rader, Baseball: A History of Chapter 1 America’s Game,
Journal – Week 3 35 D 60-69 F 0-59 TOTAL 100 Point totals are not definitive. Instructor reserves the right to adjust grades as he sees fit. COURSE AGENDA DAY ONE – THE MYSTIQUE OF BASEBALL Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Introduction Roger Angell, “The Interior Stadium” in The Summer Game (New York: Viking Press, 1972), 291-303. [PCCommon] Roger Angell, “The Web of the Game,” in Late Innings: A Baseball Companion (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 361-379. [PCCommon] Richard Greenberg, “Mason’s monologue” in Take Me Out: A Play (New York: Faber and Faber, 2003), 35-38. [PCCommon] Donald Hall, “Baseball and the Meaning of Life,” in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport [Mostly Baseball] (New York: Laurel Books, 1986), 47-51. [PCCommon] Albert Spalding, The National Game (excerpt) in Nicholas Dawidoff, ed., Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002), 46-52. [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: Ken Burns, Baseball, Inning 1, Our Game, 1840s-1900 (excerpt) You Tube: Abbott & Costello Who’s on First DAY TWO – BASEBALL’S ORIGINS AND RULES Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 1 Rader, Baseball: A History of America’s Game, Chapter 1
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