Klein Baseball on the Border

A Tale of Two Laredos
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8452-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Alan M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Badminton Baseball

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction 3

Pt. 1 Origins 15

1 A Brief History of the Two Laredos 17

2 Early Baseball on the Border 32

3 Nationalizing the Game 66

Pt. 2 Becoming Tecos 115

4 The Players and the Team 117

5 Culture and Masculinity on the Tecos 151

Pt. 3 The River Joins and the River Divides 171

6 1993: The Best of Times 173

7 1994: The Worst of Times 204

Acknowledgments 239

Appendix A Bibliographic Essay: Border and Nationalisms 243

Appendix B Methods and Perspective 260

Notes 267

Index 289

Über Autor(innen)

Alan M. Klein is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream, and Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction.