LEADER 03967nam 22006374a 450 001 9910967170603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780300135121 010 $a0300135122 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473609 035 $a(OCoLC)614480617 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10210277 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000166002 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155359 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000166002 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10148352 035 $a(PQKB)10662833 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420394 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210277 035 $a(OCoLC)923593450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7024193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7024193 035 $a(Perlego)2433014 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473609 100 $a20060120d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrowing the game $ethe globalization of major league baseball /$fAlan M. Klein 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780300110456 311 08$a0300110456 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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? 330 8 $aA sociologist and anthropologist scientifically examines the worldwide growth of MLB and America's favorite pastime. Baseball fans understand 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. Klein 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. He 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. "A superb inside look at how the national pastime has reinvented itself... Klein's writing is engaging, and his research is top-notch." -Tim Wendel, author of The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport "A timely contribution to our understanding of baseball in our contemporary age." -Michael L. Butterworth, Sociology of Sport Journal 606 $aBaseball$xEconomic aspects 606 $aGlobalization 606 $aSports and globalization 615 0$aBaseball$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aGlobalization. 615 0$aSports and globalization. 676 $a331.88/11796357 700 $aKlein$b Alan M.$f1946-$01805371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967170603321 996 $aGrowing the game$94353919 997 $aUNINA