Timothy B. Shutt Take Me Out to the Ballgame A History of Baseball in America Baseball has been celebrated as “America’s National Pastime” for more than one hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, at least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age—long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural air or brownstone stoops. In part, this is because most of those who love the game played as children and followed their favorite big-league teams as children. It is not a game one

grows out of, and once smitten, most baseball lovers remain true, passing on their love to of the game to their children. T

And the game itself is ever young, the succession of baseball heroes unbroken: of BaseballA History in America

Honus Wagner to Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, to Joe DiMaggio and Ted ake t he Williams, to Henry Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, to Mike Schmidt, and Cal Timothy B. Shutt Ripken, and Tony Gwynn, to the stars of the present. Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, and Bob M

Gibson, each generation has its heroes and cherishes the memory of those gone before B as an ongoing counterpart to daily life—through the War and the Depression, through the fifties and sixties, and to the present day. This course is a celebration of baseball’s rich allga m e

past—and of a game stronger than ever. e

TIMOTHY B. SHUTT has taught at Kenyon College, famed for splendid teaching, O literary tradition, and unwavering commitment to the liberal arts, for twenty years. No teacher at Kenyon has ever been more often honored, both by the college and by u t students, for exceptional skills in the classroom and as a lecturer. His courses in Kenyon’s interdisciplinary Integrated Program in Humane Studies and in the Department of English alike are always heavily oversubscribed, and he lectures on Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, the Greek historians, Virgil, and Dante every year to a packed house. Recorded Books Unabridged: 14 lectures ©2007 by Timothy B. Shutt 92007 by Recorded Books

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