This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an
interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. While rooted in
anthropology, these essays consider American sports in their
social, economic, cultural and political aspects, charting their
evolution. The book draws from history, sociology, and political
science; as well as considering the relationship between the
developed and developing world; and culture and masculinity. The
first part of the book considers the local and global interplay of
professional baseball, covering: Major League Baseball's impact on
the Dominican Republic nationalism and baseball on the Mexican/US
border the globalizing forces of baseball as an industry. The
second part of the book is concerned with the cultural examination
of the responsiveness of masculinity to social and cultural forces,
examining: the exaggerated world of bodybuilders in Southern
California the cross-cultural comparisons of male behaviour on a
bi-national baseball team in Mexico the historical examination of
Jews in American sport. This book was previously published as a
special issue of Sport in Society
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