This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York—home of the Baseball Hall of Fame—and Dyersville, Iowa—site of the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of Dreams.  Meer

By what magic is a simple geographical space such as a city or town transformed into cultural significance, into a "place" people travel to, enshrine, mythologize, and consume?  Meer