Making the world safe for Baseball: Reflections on internationalism in Cooperstown and the World Baseball Classic
Titel:
Making the world safe for Baseball: Reflections on internationalism in Cooperstown and the World Baseball Classic
Auteur:
Kelly, John D.
Verschenen in:
The international journal of the history of sport
Paginering:
Jaargang 24 (2007) nr. 2 pagina's 215-237
Jaar:
2007-02
Inhoud:
Baseball's international politics are here pursued by examining the 2006 inductions into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and the new Baseball World Classic. Cooperstown's museum tried to 'close the book' on past racial discrimination in Organized Baseball, and has also opened new questions by inducting foreign players who played mostly outside the US. But US fans still expect their Major Leagues to be the best leagues in all baseball. In other sports, international organizations control the world championship, but in baseball, US-based Organized Baseball has consolidated its control, making the world safe for itself, by owning the new WBC world championship, and using it as a virtual training camp for future major leaguers. Here as elsewhere, the separate-but-equal logic of the global system of nation-states does not actually generate equality in wealth or opportunity, and US leadership is oblivious to growing international disquiets.
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