Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two
teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in
1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri
Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than
mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores
the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements
of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the
international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history,
games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial
dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs
of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races
and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions
of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence
overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of
American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during
the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and
laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade
after their tour.
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