Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball

by Alan M. Klein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300136390
• ISBN13: 9780300136395
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"