Growing the Game The Globalization of Major League Baseball

Name: Growing the Game The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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ISBN: 9780300136395

ISBN-10: 0300136390

ISBN-13: 9780300136395

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alan M. Klein

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Baseball fans are well aware that the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a sport in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities of big-market and small-market baseball teams, as well as the Commissioner’s Office, he examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Japan. The origins of baseball’s efforts to globalize are complex, stemming as much from decreasing opportunities at home as…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Crisis at the Core



The Kansas City Royals: Shopping Without a Credit Card



The Los Angeles Dodgers: Bright Lights, Big Market



The Dominican Republic: Fishing Where the Fish Are



Japan: Emerging from the Feudal Eclipse



Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom: The European Backwater



South Africa: Baseball and the New Politics



When Will There Be a Real World Series?


Notes


Index