With America's
pastime in full swing, some scholars are meeting to consider the culture of
baseball half a world away.
A day-long roundtable called “Baseball in Asia”
will feature a lineup of speakers on Friday, May 7, and a trip to the Baseball
Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for events there on
Saturday.
Here is the schedule for Friday (all talks in SS 016):
10 a.m. to noon — Joe Reaves, journalist and author of
the award winning Taking in a Game: Baseball
In Asia; and Marty Kuehnert, journalist,
broadcaster and author of books on Japanese baseball.
2 to 4 p.m. — Robert Whiting, author of You've Gotta Have Wa and recently, The Meaning Of Ichiro; and Bill Kelly of Yale
University, who has written on
Japanese fans and the Hanshin Tigers.
For more information, contact Prof. Ted Gilman at ext.
6064 or Prof. George Gmelch at ext. 6083.