Description
This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball academies run by American professional teams in the Dominican Republic? With the athletes that carry a flag in Olympic ceremonies or among the executives in the boardrooms of Nike? The contributors arg
Table of Contents
1. American Baseball Fans in Havana, Cuba 2. American Football in Europe 3. Basketball in Senegal 4. American Sport, Baseball 5. Olympism and American Sport 6. Baseball in the Dominican Republic 7. Golf in America 8. Sport and the South Asian Diaspora in America 9. Native American Sport 10. American Sports Fanaticism: A View from the Bleachers
