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Democracy at the Ballpark: Sport, Spectatorship, and Politics
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Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.
What is the relationship between sports and politics? Often, politics are thought to be serious, whereas sports are diversionary and apolitical. Using baseball as a case study, Democracy at the Ballpark challenges this understanding, examining politics as they emerge at the ballpark around spectatorship, community, equality, virtue, and technology. Thomas David Bunting argues that because...