National Pastime
Subtitle: How Americans Play Baseball And the Rest of the World Plays Soccer
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: June 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780815782599
Subjects: Baseball; Cultural studies; Soccer (Association football); Sociology of Sports; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - General; Soccer
First sentence: When British soldiers in Afghanistan and southern Iraq wanted to befriend the locals, they played a soccer match.