The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers : professional baseball in modern Japan /

The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers : professional baseball in modern Japan /

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Author / Creator:	Kelly, William W. (William Wright), 1946- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Description:	xvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Sport in world history ; 5 Sport in world history ; 5.
Subject:	Hanshin Taigāsu (Baseball team) Hanshin Taigāsu (Baseball team) Baseball -- Japan -- 20th century. Baseball. Japan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11745010

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ISBN:	9780520299412 0520299418 9780520299429 0520299426 9780520971141 0520971140
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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. Instead, 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"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Kelly, William W. (William Wright), 1946- Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520971141

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