Kiernan Gordon has written a chapter in the recently published book, Baseball and Cultural Heritage, edited by Gregory Ramshaw (Clemson University) and Sean Gammon (University of Central Lancashire). Gordon’s contribution, which is entitled, ‘American baseball museums and the politics of meta-narrative’, explores how communities use baseball museums to align themselves with the sport’s broader narratives in an effort to stimulate tourism. To do this, he focuses on three museums – National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, NY), Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory (Louisville, KY), and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Kansas City, MO) – as examples of the tensions that museums must balance in using pieces of baseball history to inform and educate the broader public while simultaneously competing for consumers’ discretionary dollars.
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