Baseball

This unique collection of essays considers the impact of modern sport on the Western Pacific Rim in terms of its political consequence, intended and unintended. The inclusion of sport in the ‘Soft Power’ geopolitics of the Asia Pacific region is powerfully illustrated in this text with its focus on ..

This book drills down on a handful of representative events and phenomena to present a history of the black press and black baseball from the origins of the Negro leagues in 1915 to their fading away in the mid-1950s. Each chapter focuses on a singular event or phenomenon from and for each decade of..