Daniel A Nathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 783535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel A Nathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nathan |
| SIGNATURE | NATHAN D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Celtics City
The Boys in the Boat
The Last Dance
Breaking Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth, the iconic New York Yankees slugger who transformed baseball, captivated much of the country, and in the process made a fortune and earned an eponymous adjective—Ruthian—which signifies prodigious accomplishment, died in 1948. And yet he continues to fascinate baseball fans, journalists, and historians. Edmund F. Wehrle is one of those historians. His Breaking Babe Ruth wants us to take Ruth more seriously than most people probably hav…
Ted Williams
Tall and lithe, stubborn and irascible, loud and sometimes affable, and sometimes ornery, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox lived a remarkably accomplished life and became a baseball legend and an American icon. In the batter's box, Williams had few equals in baseball history—probably only Babe Ruth. His left-handed swing was close to perfection, the result of natural gifts (great eyesight, quick wrists, and exceptional hand-eye coordination), h…
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
Research Article| October 01 2017 Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide Daniel A. Nathan Daniel A. Nathan Skidmore College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (3): 477–479. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.3.0477 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel A. Nathan; Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide. Journal of Sport History 1 J…
Jackie Robinson
More than twenty years after his eighteen-and-a-half-hour documentary series Baseball (1994), and six years since his four-hour Baseball sequel, The Tenth Inning (2010), the master storyteller Ken Burns, joined by his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, returned to baseball with Jackie Robinson (2016). As most Americans know, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century …
Cultural Studies and Sport History
Academics working in cultural studies argue that disciplinary boundaries inhibit knowledge production and argue that sports historians should bring the concepts of other disciplines to historical storytelling. They also emphasize the plurality of cultural meaning attached to sport and insist that politics and power relations suffuse everything
Baseball As the National Pastime
This article argues that ‘baseball-as-the-national-pastime' is a fine example of the ‘narrative construction of reality' concept advanced by psychologist Jerome Bruner. That is, baseball's endlessly self-pronounced, fictional claim to being the American ‘national-pastime' has run its course. By this late date, it is exhausted but not dead, sacked by the National Football League and many other sports and pastimes in an increasingly fragmented, het…
Sports History and Roberto Clemente
While flying to San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the 2012 American Studies Association (asa) meeting, I often thought about Roberto Clemente. Born and raised in rural Puerto Rico, a man of tremendous talent, accomplishment, and pride, Clemente was major league baseball's “first Latino superstar, before America's pastime became truly international.” As my flight neared the island, I looked out the window and imagined the vast distance between where I wa…
John Unitas's jacket and other objects of importance
This essay examines three disparate sports-related objects – commemorative rings, John Unitas's jacket, and a large baseball card collection – owned by different people. It offers an appreciation of the objects (aesthetically and historically), and considers their rich, polysemic meaning via an interdisciplinary method that is part oral history, part ‘thick description’, part exegesis. In the process we learn that, to their owners – a former elit…
Revisiting Ellis Island to Ebbets Field
Book Review| July 01 2011 Revisiting Ellis Island to Ebbets Field Daniel A. Nathan Daniel A. Nathan Department of American Studies, Skidmore College Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (2): 275–288. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.2.275a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel …
Soldier Field
Aside from their sheer size and architectural importance, stadiums matter for financial and political reasons. They can also express civic identity, pride, and meaning. Liam T. A. Ford's thoughtful, seemingly comprehensive history of Chicago's Soldier Field—which is just south of the Field Museum of Natural History and just west of Lake Michigan—examines all of these subjects with perspicacity, rather than with the chauvinism one might expect fro…
The Tenth Inning
Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, The Tenth Inning is a two-part, four-hour sequel to Baseball (1994), the eighteen-and-a-half-hour long, Emmy Award–winning documentary that was the most-watched series in public television history. In the pages of the Journal of American History sixteen years ago the historian George B. Kirsch concluded his review of Baseball: “On balance, for lovers of the national pastime, Baseball is a stand-up triple. Fo…
Andrew M. Kaye, The Pussycat of Prizefighting
The Massachusetts 54th on Film
Of Grades and Glory
The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. By James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen (in collaboration with Lauren A. Meserve and Roger C. Schonfeld). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. 447 pages. $27.95 (cloth). I had read almost half of The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values when the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics released its latest report, its first since 1993. 1 The stu…
City Dump
Journal Article City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal. Prod. by George Roy and Steve Stern. Black Canyon Productions, 1998. 58 mins. (Black Canyon Productions, 49 W. 27th St., New York, NY 10001) Get access Daniel A. Nathan Daniel A. Nathan Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1192–1193, https…
Northern Sandlots
Baseball As the National Pastime
This article argues that ‘baseball-as-the-national-pastime' is a fine example of the ‘narrative construction of reality' concept advanced by psychologist Jerome Bruner. That is, baseball's endlessly self-pronounced, fictional claim to being the American ‘national-pastime' has run its course. By this late date, it is exhausted but not dead, sacked by the National Football League and many other sports and pastimes in an increasingly fragmented, het…
Soldier Field
Aside from their sheer size and architectural importance, stadiums matter for financial and political reasons. They can also express civic identity, pride, and meaning. Liam T. A. Ford's thoughtful, seemingly comprehensive history of Chicago's Soldier Field—which is just south of the Field Museum of Natural History and just west of Lake Michigan—examines all of these subjects with perspicacity, rather than with the chauvinism one might expect fro…
Northern Sandlots
City Dump
Journal Article City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal. Prod. by George Roy and Steve Stern. Black Canyon Productions, 1998. 58 mins. (Black Canyon Productions, 49 W. 27th St., New York, NY 10001) Get access Daniel A. Nathan Daniel A. Nathan Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1192–1193, https…
The Massachusetts 54th on Film
Of Grades and Glory
The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. By James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen (in collaboration with Lauren A. Meserve and Roger C. Schonfeld). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. 447 pages. $27.95 (cloth). I had read almost half of The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values when the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics released its latest report, its first since 1993. 1 The stu…
Andrew M. Kaye, The Pussycat of Prizefighting
Revisiting Ellis Island to Ebbets Field
Book Review| July 01 2011 Revisiting Ellis Island to Ebbets Field Daniel A. Nathan Daniel A. Nathan Department of American Studies, Skidmore College Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (2): 275–288. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.2.275a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel …
Soldier Field
Aside from their sheer size and architectural importance, stadiums matter for financial and political reasons. They can also express civic identity, pride, and meaning. Liam T. A. Ford's thoughtful, seemingly comprehensive history of Chicago's Soldier Field—which is just south of the Field Museum of Natural History and just west of Lake Michigan—examines all of these subjects with perspicacity, rather than with the chauvinism one might expect fro…
The Tenth Inning
Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, The Tenth Inning is a two-part, four-hour sequel to Baseball (1994), the eighteen-and-a-half-hour long, Emmy Award–winning documentary that was the most-watched series in public television history. In the pages of the Journal of American History sixteen years ago the historian George B. Kirsch concluded his review of Baseball: “On balance, for lovers of the national pastime, Baseball is a stand-up triple. Fo…
John Unitas's jacket and other objects of importance
This essay examines three disparate sports-related objects – commemorative rings, John Unitas's jacket, and a large baseball card collection – owned by different people. It offers an appreciation of the objects (aesthetically and historically), and considers their rich, polysemic meaning via an interdisciplinary method that is part oral history, part ‘thick description’, part exegesis. In the process we learn that, to their owners – a former elit…
Baseball As the National Pastime
This article argues that ‘baseball-as-the-national-pastime' is a fine example of the ‘narrative construction of reality' concept advanced by psychologist Jerome Bruner. That is, baseball's endlessly self-pronounced, fictional claim to being the American ‘national-pastime' has run its course. By this late date, it is exhausted but not dead, sacked by the National Football League and many other sports and pastimes in an increasingly fragmented, het…
Sports History and Roberto Clemente
While flying to San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the 2012 American Studies Association (asa) meeting, I often thought about Roberto Clemente. Born and raised in rural Puerto Rico, a man of tremendous talent, accomplishment, and pride, Clemente was major league baseball's “first Latino superstar, before America's pastime became truly international.” As my flight neared the island, I looked out the window and imagined the vast distance between where I wa…
Cultural Studies and Sport History
Academics working in cultural studies argue that disciplinary boundaries inhibit knowledge production and argue that sports historians should bring the concepts of other disciplines to historical storytelling. They also emphasize the plurality of cultural meaning attached to sport and insist that politics and power relations suffuse everything
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
Research Article| October 01 2017 Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide Daniel A. Nathan Daniel A. Nathan Skidmore College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2017) 44 (3): 477–479. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.3.0477 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel A. Nathan; Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide. Journal of Sport History 1 J…
Jackie Robinson
More than twenty years after his eighteen-and-a-half-hour documentary series Baseball (1994), and six years since his four-hour Baseball sequel, The Tenth Inning (2010), the master storyteller Ken Burns, joined by his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, returned to baseball with Jackie Robinson (2016). As most Americans know, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century …
Breaking Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth, the iconic New York Yankees slugger who transformed baseball, captivated much of the country, and in the process made a fortune and earned an eponymous adjective—Ruthian—which signifies prodigious accomplishment, died in 1948. And yet he continues to fascinate baseball fans, journalists, and historians. Edmund F. Wehrle is one of those historians. His Breaking Babe Ruth wants us to take Ruth more seriously than most people probably hav…
Ted Williams
Tall and lithe, stubborn and irascible, loud and sometimes affable, and sometimes ornery, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox lived a remarkably accomplished life and became a baseball legend and an American icon. In the batter's box, Williams had few equals in baseball history—probably only Babe Ruth. His left-handed swing was close to perfection, the result of natural gifts (great eyesight, quick wrists, and exceptional hand-eye coordination), h…
The Last Dance
The Boys in the Boat
Celtics City
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