Baseball Beyond Our Borders

<p><em>Baseball Beyond Our Borders</em> celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.<br /><br />This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive entertaining and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory the contributors show how each country imported baseball how baseball took hold and developed how it is organized played and followed and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport’s place in each culture. <br /><br />But what lies in store as baseball’s passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.</p><p><strong>George Gmelch</strong> is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College in upstate New York. He is the author or editor of thirteen books including <em>Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties </em>(Nebraska 2016). <strong>Daniel A. Nathan</strong> is a professor and chair of American studies at Skidmore College. He is the editor of <em>Rooting for the Home Team: Sport Community and Identity</em> and past president of the North American Society for Sport History.</p>