Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball

From America's Pastime to a global phenomenon—the life of the spectacular game as it is played and celebrated in communities around the world

All over the world, masses of people watch, follow, document, and obsess over baseball. Everything remarkable about the impact of baseball derives from the game's history and cultural status as events that draw people together in these ways. Understanding baseball as a cultural phenomenon is therefore less a matter of mastering the vocabulary of the ga...