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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780520299412
- Book Title
- Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers : Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
- Book Series
- Sport in World History Ser.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Asia / Japan, Baseball / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 321 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520299418
ISBN-13
9780520299412
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038276729
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers : Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
Number of Pages
321 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Japan, Baseball / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
Book Series
Sport in World History Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2018-020210
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
5
Dewey Decimal
796.357/640952187
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms and Japanese Language 1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball 2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons 3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans 4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches 5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation 6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators 7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media 8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment 9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex 10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present Endnotes Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing Glossary of Key Japanese Terms References Index
Synopsis
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 watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. Despite a largely losing record, perennial frustration, and infighting among players, the Tigers remain overwhelming sentimental favorites in many parts of the country. This book analyzes the Hanshin Tiger phenomenon, and offers an account of why it has long been so compelling and instructive. Author William Kelly argues that the Tigers represent what he calls a sportsworld --a collective product of the actions of players, coaching staff, management, media, and millions of passionate fans. The team has come to symbolize a powerful counter-narrative to idealized notions of Japanese workplace relations. The Tigers are savored as a melodramatic representation of real corporate life, rife with rivalries and office politics familiar to every Japanese worker. And playing in a historic stadium on the edge of Osaka, they carry the hopes and frustrations of Japan's second city against the all-powerful capital.
LC Classification Number
GV875.H36K45 2019
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