Baseball and the Films

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The writer of this paper examines how the long held national sense of baseball as 'America's pastime' first came to be, and how and why this sense of baseball remains strongly with us today. The writer also describes how combined, implied social and political importance of baseball to the American psyche and realization of the "American Dream" is powerfully and vividly reflected in films like "The Rookie"; "Field of Dreams", and "A League of their Own".

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"As this film convincingly conveys, especially through its portrayals of the various ups and downs, but ultimately the cohesive teamwork and shared integrity among the Peaches themselves, that playing baseball one's very best, whatever one's gender, can and does bring out the best in oneself and others. The teammates each grow stronger, wiser and more determined and confident through their struggles to be self-actualizing through baseball which for women back then was indeed to achieve the near impossible."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Baseball." Wikipedia. 30 July 2007 31 July 2007<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Baseball,html>
• Field of Dreams. Dir Phil Alden Robinson. With Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan. 1989.
• The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. Documentary (VHS). 1998.
• "History of Baseball in the United States." 24 Jul 2007 <http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ History _of_baseball_in_the_United_States.html>.
• A League of their Own. Dir. Penny Marshall. 1992. With Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, 1992

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