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Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror

Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror

Butterworth, Michael L.

Paperback

Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique

General ReferenceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0817362754
ISBN13: 9780817362751
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: May 25 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way.

Baseball has long been considered

Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity is an investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way. It pays special attention to baseball's role in the reconstruction of American identity after September 11, 2001. This study is framed by a discussion that links the development of baseball to the discourses of innocence and purity in 19th-century America. From there, it examines ritual performances at baseball games; a traveling museum exhibit sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; the recent debate about the use of performance-enhancing drugs; the return of Major League Baseball to Washington, D.C., in 2005; and the advent of the World Baseball Classic in 2006.

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