Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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发展比赛：美国职业棒球大联盟的全球化
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2006
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A. Klein
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A. Klein
棒球迷们都很清楚，这项运动已经变得越来越国际化。大联盟的球员名单包括来自不少于14个国家的球员，超过四分之一的球员是外国出生的。在这里，艾伦·克莱因提供了第一个完整的研究全球化过程中的一项运动。他着眼于大市场和小市场棒球队的国际活动，以及专员办公室，研究了美国职业棒球大联盟在从多米尼加共和国到南非再到日本的世界舞台上的运作方式。棒球全球化努力的起源是复杂的，既源于国内机会的减少，也源于国外的回报承诺。这本书记录了棒球在美国以外发展的尝试，洛杉矶道奇队和堪萨斯城皇家队等球队为招募国际人才而设计的策略，以及棒球在其他国家的发展方式。作者最后对可能抑制或促进棒球全球化进程的障碍进行了评估，并提出了深思熟虑的建议，以确保棒球运动在美国和国外的健康和发展。
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 a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Japan. The origins of baseball's efforts to globalize are complex, stemming as much from decreasing opportunities at home as from rewarding promise abroad. The book chronicles attempts to develop the game outside the United States, the strategies that teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals have devised to recruit international talent, and the ways baseball has been growing in other countries. The author concludes with an assessment of the obstacles that may inhibit or promote baseball's progress toward globalization, offering thoughtful proposals to ensure the health and growth of the game in the United States and abroad.