Growing the game : the globalization of major league baseball /

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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 glo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klein, Alan, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Baseball > Economic aspects.
Globalization.
Sports and globalization.
Base-ball > Aspect économique.
Mondialisation.
Sports et mondialisation.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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