Growing the Game : The Globalization of Major League Baseball

Based on extensive research in six countries, Alan Klein offers the first comprehensive look at the impact of globalization on Major League Baseball. He discusses how America's national pastime has changed in recent years and asks what these changes may mean for the future of the game. Taking readers from the Commissioner's Office to the front offices of large- and small-market teams, as well as to baseball diamonds around the globe, Klein shows how Major League Baseball operates on the world stage. Book jacket.

Alan M. Klein is professor of sociology and anthropology, Northeastern University. He is author of Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream, published by Yale University Press; and Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos. He lives in Boston.