A televised baseball game from Puerto Rico, Japan, or even Cuba
might look a lot like the North American game. Beneath the outward
similarities, however--the uniforms and equipment and basic
rules--there is usually a very different history and culture
influencing the nuances of the sport. These differences are what
interest the authors of "Baseball without Borders," a book about
America's national pastime going global and undergoing instructive,
entertaining, and sometimes curious changes in the process. The
contributors, leading authorities on baseball in the fourteen
nations under consideration, look at how the game was imported--how
it took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and
followed--and what these local and regional trends and features say
about the sport's place in particular cultures.
Organized by region--Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the
Pacific--and written by journalists, historians, anthropologists,
and English professors, these original essays reflect diverse
perspectives and range across a refreshingly wide array of
subjects: from high school baseball in Japan and Little League in
Taiwan to fan behavior in Cuba and the politics of baseball in
China and Korea.
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