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- Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.
This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport’s place in each culture.
But what lies in store as baseball’s passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.
This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport’s place in each culture.
But what lies in store as baseball’s passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.
Table of Contents
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- Title page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction: Around the Horn
- pp. xv-xxxii
- Part 1. The Americas
- pp. 1-2
- Part 2. Asia
- pp. 151-152
- 9. Japan: “No Matter What Happens, Stand Up”
- pp. 153-182
- 11. Korea: Straw Sandals and Strong Arms
- pp. 203-228
- 12. China: A Century and a Half of Bat Ball
- pp. 229-248
- Part 3. The Pacific
- pp. 283-284
- 14. Australia: Baseball’s Curious Journey
- pp. 285-298
- 15. Tasmania: Baseball Struggles to Survive
- pp. 299-310
- Part 4. The Middle East
- pp. 321-322
- Part 5. Africa
- pp. 335-336
- 18. South Africa: The Battle for Baseball
- pp. 337-348
- Part 6. Europe
- pp. 349-350
- 19. Italy: No Hot Dogs in the Bleachers
- pp. 351-372
- 20. Holland: An American Coaching Honkbal
- pp. 373-392
- Part 7. World Baseball Classic
- pp. 423-424
- Source Acknowledgments
- pp. 451-452
- Contributors
- pp. 453-460
Additional Information
ISBN
9781496201058
Related ISBN(s)
9780803276826
MARC Record
OCLC
969973823
Pages
488
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-31
Language
English
Open Access
No