Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream - Hardcover

Klein, Assoc. Prof. Alan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300048734 ISBN 13: 9780300048735

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country

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From the Back Cover

'This is an important book. It elevates sport sociology to levels heretofore rarely achieved, showing that this subdiscipline, still in its adolescence, is coming of age. Tackling issues as crucial as cultural resistance and hegemony, the author shows us how sport can be used to illustrate the tension between an industrial power and a developing nation....Destined to take its place as one of the best critical ethnographies of sport, we recommend Sugarball.'--Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler, American Journal of Sociology

From Publishers Weekly

One hundred years ago two Cubans introduced baseball to the Dominican Republic, where it became the national pastime. But the game has evolved into something other than a carbon copy of the U.S. sport, and Klein, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University, shows how the two differ. After a jargon-laden introduction, he presents an excellent short history of Dominica, the development of teams sponsored by the large sugar refineries (hence the book's title), and an absorbing analysis of how the Dominican national persona affects players and fans today.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0300048734
• ISBN 13: 9780300048735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224