The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball in modern Japan
"Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers. For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country's most w...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2019]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Sport in world history ; 5. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46266987*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introducing Hanshin Tiger baseball
- The rhythms of Hanshin Tiger baseball : stadiums and seasons
- On the field : the players
- In the dugout : manager and coaches
- In the offices : front office and parent company
- In the stands : fans, followers, and fair-weather spectators
- In the press box : sports dailies and mainstream media
- Baseball as edutainment
- Workplace melodramas and second-city complex
- A sportsworld transformed : the Hanshin Tigers at present.
