The empire strikes out
Subtitle: how baseball sold U.S. foreign policy and promoted the American way abroad
By: Robert Elias
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781595581952
Description: "The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of "the American way." Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe?" "Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling baseball lore, here is an eye-opening look at baseball's relationship to American empire, from the Revolutionary era to the present day. The Empire Strikes Out describes baseball's role in the expanding American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball's first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America's national pastime and baseball's role in spreading the American dream."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Wars at home (1775 - 1892); title: 2. Missionaries abroad (1888 - 1897); title: 3. Small wars and the old army game (1898 - 1909); title: 4. Imperium Rising (1910-1916); title: 5. Real War (1917 - 1919); title: 6. From the home front to horsehide diplomacy (1919 -1940); title: 7. Good war hunting (1941 - 1945); title: 8. Cold war, hot war (1946 - 1953); title: 9. Revolution and Quagmire (1953 - 1975); title: 10. Purging the Vietnam syndrome (1976 - 1999); title: 11. Foreign Policy on steroids (2000 - 2009); title: 12.  The empire strikes out.