Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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 the international activities of big-market and small-market baseball teams, as well as the Commissioner’s Office, he examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on
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Review by Denise A. Valdes for Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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We know how impressive Japan and the Dominican Republic are as baseball playing countries, but Klein goes way beyond that in showing us the rest of the world. This book really gives us a way to look at baseball and globalization. Must reading for baseball fans.
D. Valdes
Review by Robert S. Whiting for Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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Illuminating look at the changing face of America’s former national pastime and its recent growth around the globe. The research, which includes material on baseball in Italy, Germany and the UK, as well as the usual suspects, is impressive.
Review by A. Klein for Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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Remarkable!! Klein’s book is not even out yet, a minor point for M. Torrez who trashes it without having read a word. Readers of these reviews should take note- this space can be a clearing house for people with grudges and agendas. Pay no attention to my rating; I am the author and had to rate the book in order to caution unsuspecting readers.
Review by M. torres for Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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Growing the Game is just a waste of time and money…The issue of the globalization of baseball has been better analyzed by other authors in the past 5 years!!..Klein is just way out of touch!!…Don’t buy it!
Review by George Gmelch for Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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This book by Alan Klein, the leading authority on the social science of baseball, may be his best (he is also the author of Sugarball, and Baseball on the Border). In Growing the Game he unravels MLB’s efforts to expand baseball outside the U.S. Lucid and engaging. Perfect for my Sport, Culture and Society course.