National Pastime
Subtitle: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780815782582
Subjects: Baseball; Soccer (Association football); Sport & leisure industries; Sports & Recreation; Economic aspects; Business & Economics; Sociology of Sports; Business/Economics; USA; Industries - General; Baseball - General; Soccer; United States; Cross-cultural studies; Professional sports
First sentence: When British soldiers in Afghanistan and southern Iraq wanted to befriend the locals, they played a soccer match.
Description: "Examines, from an economic perspective, how the different traditions of soccer and baseball have shaped the possibilites for their commercial organization and exploitation, and considers how each sport might learn from the other's experiences to develop meaningful reforms" -- Provided by publisher.