Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball

A sociologist and anthropologist scientifically examines the worldwide growth of MLB and America's favorite pastime.

Baseball fans understand 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 basebal...