Selected Topics in Baseball: Pop Culture, Invisible Work, and Sports Venues | MAPACA

Each of these papers examines a particular aspect of the sport of baseball: the evolution of baseball as a part of American pop culture, Latino youth baseball as unpaid and invisible work, and the social component of new stadium construction.

Presentations

Baseball and Other Things: The Evolution America's Past Time in Pop Culture

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April Cheyenne Marble

Two Unrecognized and Invisible Modes of Unpaid Work: Latino Youth Baseball and American College Sports

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Joe Trumino

Pittsburgh’s Sports Venue Construction History: Forbes Field’s Focus on the Upscale Audience versus Three Rivers Stadium’s Struggle for Workers’ Civil Rights

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Bob Trumpbour

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Bob Trumpbour