baseball

modal personality

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

poet

is a sport whose mythologies through its historical development parallel more general American ideologies through the ages: Proceeding from an infancy of pagan ritual and folk play through an adolescence of organized club sport into a disillusioning adulthood of professionalism and corruption.

Seeking the Perfect Game Cordelia Candelaria 'applies the elusive land controversial) ideal of the sport's concept of the 'perfect game' to the literary and philosophical search for truth about America's fundamental soul and substance' (15). For Candelaria, baseball literature offers a perfect entry into the study of American culture because baseball has served to produce myths for American ideologies. She sees the history of the sport as proceeding from an infancy of pagan ritual and folk play through an adolescence of organized club sport into a disillusioning adulthood of professionalism and corruption centered on the 1919 Black Sox scandal (13-14). The social history and in turn the literary history of baseball parallel that of the United States 'as a consequence of its deeply ingrained place within the country's history, culture, and lore'' (14).

is the study of the habit systems of numerous individuals in a society, with a view to discovering the type of personality manifested by most of them.

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Cordelia CandelariaThinkers

Cordelia Candelaria