Baseball and Americanism

This course will explore baseball and Americanism. What does it mean that baseball is the national pastime? What does national pastime even mean? What about national? When you think of the United States, what do you think of? Is baseball a part of that? These are some of the aspects we are going to delve into throughout this course. We are going to spend some time discussing how baseball reflected American culture at the time. In some instances, we will discuss how baseball reflected what people wanted American culture to look like, or appear to be

• Analyze nationalism's role in American history
• Survey institutions influencing baseball culture
• Investigate connections between American identity and baseball

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read course instructions in English and complete practice activities