Trujillo Stadium Culture

The article, Interpreting the work and talk of Baseball by Trujillo, asserts that how different interpretation about culture of green baseball field which is called as ballpark in terms of romantics, functionalists, and critics. This article is shown three prevalent perspectives of stadium culture of baseball: “The ballpark as a site of capitalist work, as a community for symbolic family members, and as a theatre for social dram” (350, Trujillo). One of the three views about culture of ballpark from romanticist argues that stadium culture could be defined as idealistic baseball and even feeling of community rather than business and social values which is argued as a point of view from functionalists. They think that baseball itself reveals