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Growing the Game : The Globalization of Major League Baseball by Alan M. Klein (2008, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300136390
ISBN-139780300136395
eBay Product ID (ePID)63636656
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameGrowing the Game : the Globalization of Major League Baseball
LanguageEnglish
SubjectInternational / Economics, Globalization, Baseball / General
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlan M. Klein
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Sports & Recreation, Business & Economics
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"Klein enters an important and exciting area of research and is the first to focus on the globalization of baseball. "Growing the Game" will be a landmark contribution."--Milton Jamail, author of "Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball ", "This is an excellent book, from a first rate scholar who combines theoretical and empirical insights to produce an engaging look into the development of baseball across the globe."--Joseph Maguire, author of "Power and Global Sport", "A superb inside look at how the national pastime has reinvented itself. Alan Klein's writing is engaging and his research is top-notch. His efforts remind me of that Johnny Cash song. When it comes to the globalization of baseball, Klein has been 'everywhere.'"-Tim Wendel, author of The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal331.8811796357
SynopsisBaseball 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 Commissioner7;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 baseball7;s efforts to globalize are complex, stemming as much from decreasing opportunities at home as from promise abroad. The book chronicles attempts to develop the game outside the United States, the strategies that teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals have devised to recruit international talent, and the ways baseball has been growing in other countries. The author concludes with an assessment of the obstacles that may inhibit or promote baseball7;s progress toward globalization, offering thoughtful proposals to ensure the health and growth of the game in the United States and abroad., How globalization is affecting America's national pastime and what the changes may mean for the future of the game 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 from promise abroad. The book chronicles attempts to develop the game outside the United States, the strategies that teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals have devised to recruit international talent, and the ways baseball has been growing in other countries. The author concludes with an assessment of the obstacles that may inhibit or promote baseball's progress toward globalization, offering thoughtful proposals to ensure the health and growth of the game in the United States and abroad.
LC Classification NumberGV880.K54 2008
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