Baseball Beyond Our Borders
An International Pastime
Nebraska · Print & ebook · March 1, 2017
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- Who it’s for
- Essays trace how baseball took hold, developed, and found local character worldwide.
- Themes
- Global spread of baseball, Baseball and national cultures, Local histories of the game
- Genres
- Baseball Essays, Baseball History, Sports & Society
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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.
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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.
Baseball Across Borders
Essays trace how baseball took hold, developed, and found local character worldwide.
Come here for
- Different histories and cultures of places where baseball is played
- Questions about player migration and the World Baseball Classic
Expect
- Essays on how baseball spread beyond the United States
- Accounts of how local and regional traits shape baseball’s place in each culture
Where it sits
| Baseball Essays | 58% |
|---|---|
| Sports & Society | 55% |
| Baseball History | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Baseball Essays
- Authors
- George Gmelch, Daniel A. Nathan
- Publisher
- Nebraska
- Published
- March 1, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Global spread of baseball · Baseball and national cultures · Local histories of the game
- Reading lane
- Baseball Essays