The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers : professional baseball in modern Japan /
"Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers. For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country's most w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Sport in world history ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introducing Hanshin Tiger baseball
- The rhythms of Hanshin Tiger baseball : stadiums and seasons
- On the field : the players
- In the dugout : manager and coaches
- In the offices : front office and parent company
- In the stands : fans, followers, and fair-weather spectators
- In the press box : sports dailies and mainstream media
- Baseball as edutainment
- Workplace melodramas and second-city complex
- A sportsworld transformed : the Hanshin Tigers at present.