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Reaves, Joseph Allen. "A history of baseball in Asia : assimilating, rejecting and remaking America's game /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19470472.
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Chamberlain, Michael David. "Baseball on the air, reinterpretations of the history of radio baseball." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq25963.pdf.
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Myers, D. James. "Hard times - hard ball, the Cape Breton Colliery League, 1936-1939." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22805.pdf.
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Lee, Jason. "The Value of Youth in Major League Baseball." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/203.
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In the fall of 2009, the New York Yankees claimed their 27th World Series title with a team that oozed capitalism and free markets. With over $200 million committed in its annual payroll, the Yankees capitalized on a strong free-agent class and some of the best known players in the game to generate their first World Series title since 2000. The feat was impressive, but the expectation in New York is always “championship or bust.” The following season, the Yankees fell in the American League Championship Series to the Texas Rangers who would go on to lose to the San Francisco Giants. The San Francisco Giants were not the New York Yankees. They were not even close when it came to payroll, star-power, and management. Yet this lovable bunch of losers took control of the 2010 post-season and took home their first World Series since moving to San Francisco.
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Feagan, Joy. "REMEMBERING THE NATION’S PASTIME: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND PUBLIC HISTORY." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/562536.
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This study explores what happens when baseball and public history collide at physical sites. It specifically examines corporate and vernacular exhibits and tours at six Major League ballparks and exhibits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. I study these primary sources within the broader context of baseball history, nostalgia marketing, heritage tourism, and the relationship between public historians and corporations. My analysis adds to the sparse critical literature on sports public history.
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Tannenbaum, Seth S. "Ballparks as America: The Fan Experience at Major League Baseball Parks in the Twentieth Century." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/565542.
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This dissertation is a history of the change in form and location of ballparks that explains why that change happened, when it did, and what this tells us about broader society, about hopes and fears, and about tastes and prejudices. It uses case studies of five important and trend-setting ballparks to understand what it meant to go to a major league game in the twentieth century. I examine the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium in the first half of the twentieth century, what I call the classic ballpark era, Dodger Stadium and the Astrodome from the 1950s through the 1980s, what I call the multi-use ballpark era, and Camden Yards in the retro-chic ballpark era—the 1990s and beyond. I treat baseball as a reflection of larger American culture that sometimes also shaped that culture. I argue that baseball games were a purportedly inclusive space that was actually exclusive and divided, but that the exclusion and division was masked by rhetoric about the game and the relative lack of explicit policies barring anyone. Instead, owners built a system that was economically and socially stratified and increasingly physically removed from lower-class and non-white city residents. Ballparks’ tiers allowed owners to give wealthier fans the option of sitting in the seats closest to home plate where they would not have to interact with poorer fans who owners pushed to the cheaper seats further from the action. That masked exclusion gave middle- and upper-class fans a space that was comfortable and safe because it was anything but truly accessible to all Americans. I also argue that owners had to change the image of the ballpark and tinker with the exclusion there as fans’ tastes and their visions of what a city should look and feel like changed.
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Stephen, Patrick A. "Major League Baseball and World War II: Protecting The Monopoly by Selling Major League Baseball as Patriotic." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1835.
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The Green Light letter from President Franklin Roosevelt to Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis gave MLB permission to continue throughout World War II. The team owners felt relief that MLB is the only professional sport to survive during the years of World War II (1941-1945). MLB became a primary contributor toward the war effort. While war-supporting efforts were conducted, team owners positioned themselves to benefit from the bond between baseball and the American people. MLB portrayed itself through the commissioner’s office policy as a patriotic partner by providing entertainment for American factory workers and contributing equipment to servicemen overseas. MLB also remained a monopoly without Congressional inquiries or public challenge. Since MLB was exempt from anti-trust laws, team owners operated within MLB’s anti-trust exemption and strengthened position for the post war period.
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Hutton, Brian P. "Baseball in the Digital Age: The Role of Online and Mobile Content in Major League Baseball's Media Product Portfolio." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33170/.
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This case study evaluated Major League Baseball's (MLB) media product portfolio to identify how broadcast revenues have evolved over the past decade. This research looked back across baseball's long, dysfunctional history with broadcasters in order to recognize the significance of its ambitious use of online content. While MLB had failed to fully utilize the potential of broadcasting, the league's aggressive online strategy through its Advanced Media (MLBAM) division made it the industry leader in broadcasting live streaming sports video. MLBAM expanded its online streaming video to mobile phones and iPad, further expanding the distribution of its content. This research compared MLBAM revenue to traditional broadcast revenue while analyzing the online division's role in promoting the MLB brand. This case study concluded that while MLBAM had made a number of groundbreaking developments, the league could still improve its use of embedded, shared video clips, archived footage and international marketing in order to further extend the brand equity of the MLB, its thirty individual brands and its media product portfolio.
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Miller, Aaron Wilhelm. "Glorious Summer: A Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Baseball, 1861-1920." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354309531.
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Lomax, Michael E. "Black baseball, black entrepreneurs, black community." Connect to resource, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1228158943.
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Rogers, Shannon. "Ken Burns' Baseball: Argument in documentary." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1759.
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Zaslau, Darren Brett. "Race, Ethnicity and the Legacy of Baseball in the Americas." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin149610473250905.
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Riley, James A. "Of Monarchs and Black Barons: Essays on Baseball's Negro Leagues." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://www.amzn.com/B01F9GJ9SS/.
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The first African American to play in baseball’s recognized major leagues, William Edward White, appeared in 1879, followed by brothers Fleetwood and Welday Walker in 1884. The fourth African American, Jackie Robinson, did not make his major league debut until 1947. This sixty-three year gap has become known as the era of “black baseball”—a time when two generations of African American players were excluded from the existing major leagues. This anthology provides insights into black baseball during this extraordinary time, spotlighting players who characterized its special flavor and spirit. Based on 40 years of research and hundreds of interviews with surviving participants and observers, these essays preserve a crucial time in our country’s history and provide a thoughtful perspective on the Negro Leagues.https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1032/thumbnail.jpg
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Grilc, Brandon. "Stealing Home: How American Society Preserves Major League Baseball Stadiums, Ballparks, & Fields." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18547.
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This study focuses on a cultural phenomenon that is driven by the demolition of Major League Baseball stadiums, ballparks, and fields. Prompted by their inherent role in the evolution of the sport and the inadequacies of the existing historic preservation framework, this study examines how American society preserves this utilitarian form, after their demolition, through observations, data collection, and analysis. In doing so, this study exposes that Major League Baseball stadiums, ballparks, and fields are preserved through the use of nine overlapping preservation methods, which memorialize five significant features. However, though these preservation methods do not prevent Major League Baseball stadiums from being demolished, they do illustrate how our society alternatively preserves historically and culturally significant resources when the existing historic preservation framework is rendered incompatible.
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Trembanis, Sarah L. ""They opened the door too late": African Americans and baseball, 1900-1947." W&M ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623506.
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During Jim Crow, the sport of baseball served as an important arena for African American resistance and negotiation. as a (mostly) black enterprise, the Negro Leagues functioned as part of a larger African American movement to establish black commercial ventures during segregation. Moreover, baseball's special status as the national pastime made it a significant public symbol for African American campaigns for integration and civil rights.;This dissertation attempts to interrogate the experience and significance of black baseball during Jim Crow during the first half of the twentieth century. Relying on newspapers, magazines, memoirs, biographies, and previously published oral interviews, this work looks at resistance and political critique that existed in the world of black sport, particularly in the cultural production of black baseball.;Specifically, this dissertation argues that in a number of public and semi-public arenas, African Americans used baseball as a literal and figurative space in which they could express dissatisfaction with the strictures of Jim Crow as well as the larger societal understanding of race during the early twentieth century. African Americans asserted a counter-narrative of black racial equality and superiority through their use of physical space in ballparks and on the road during travel, through the public negotiation of black manhood on the pages of the black press, through the editorial art and photography of black periodicals, and through the employment of folktales and nicknames.;The African American experience during Jim Crow baseball and the attendant social and cultural production provide a window into the subtle and unstated black resistance to white supremacy and scientific racism. Thus this dissertation explores and identifies the political meanings of black baseball.
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Rasnake, Douglas Micah. "Sport in a midwestern city: baseball and football in Columbus, Ohio, 1890 to 1910." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392712292.
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Shattuck, Debra Ann. "From child's play to molder of men: the gendered narrative of nineteenth-century baseball." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5994.
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Baseball has not always been identified as a man’s game despite the fact that its boosters began proclaiming it a “manly” pastime in antebellum America. This thesis reveals, for the first time, that baseball began as a gender-neutral sport. Countless girls and women across the country played the game in every decade of the nineteenth century that the game existed, organizing the same types of teams that boys and men did. The thesis explains how and why the gender-neutral game become so fiercely gendered as masculine and explains how this characterization persisted despite dramatic changes in gender ideals and roles over time.
Close scrutiny of nineteenth-century sources indicates that baseball’s gendered character was neither inevitable nor quickly solidified. For decades journalists, scholars, and ordinary citizens unwittingly perpetuated the gendered narrative—a narrative introduced by men with a personal and financial stake in shaping the game for their own purposes and one accepted and reinforced in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth by female physical educators who organized a structure for girls’ and women’s sport that discouraged elitism and encouraged participation by individuals of all physical characteristics.
This thesis traces the evolution of baseball throughout the nineteenth century, focusing on the development of the formal structure of the sport and the cultural “creed” it shaped. To the extent allowed by available primary sources, each chapter highlights the perceptions of female players, particularly as they saw themselves in the context of baseball culture and social ideals of gender.
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Neel, Richard L. "America's game in Middletown USA : baseball in Muncie, Indiana, 1876-1953." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/558368.
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This thesis argues that since baseball is "America's National Game" and Muncie, Indiana, is commonly perceived as "Middletown USA," that Muncie baseball should be very reflective of the national game and serve as a microcosm for both national and local social changes. A detailed historical account of baseball in Muncie, Indiana, from 1876 to 1953 is provided which serves as an excellent model of the importance of semi-professional baseball in a small city.This project has uncovered some interesting facts about the role of sports because baseball was actually treated in Muncie more as entertainment than as a sport. The real reason for the success of Muncie baseball was the constant availability of quality baseball parks and that appears to be an important criteria for a successful semi-professionalbaseball club.Muncie was very reflective of the "National Game" as the Pittsburgh Pirates held spring training during World War II in Muncie and the Cincinnati Reds supported a Class "D" farm club from 1946 to 1950. Such national attention from major league clubs was a product of a very rich Muncie baseball tradition.Department of History
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Ferguson, Matthew R. ""Baseball as Community Identity: Cleveland, Ohio -- 1891-2012"." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363301386.
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Conley, Cameron. "Poor Millionaires: A History of Free Agency in Major League Baseball and the National Football League." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/338.
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In 2011, both Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) saw the expiration of their collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) between the players’ unions and owners. Without an agreement in place, the two leagues would have been unable to play the next season. The CBAs established basic contract provisions, pensions and other benefits for players, and, most importantly, granted players the right to move between teams at their own discretion and outlined the manner in which they could do so. This process of changing teams was known as free agency.
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Dewberry, Eric. "Jake Wells Enterprises and the Development of Urban Entertainments in the South, 1890-1925." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/24.
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This dissertation explores the development of commercial entertainments and film exhibition in the urban South around the turn of the last century through the growth and decline of Jake Wells Enterprises. A former professional baseball player, Wells invested in a wide variety of public amusements, with the core of his early business centered on establishing and organizing a string of vaudeville, popularly priced, and legitimate theaters throughout the largest cities in the region, a network he later transitioned to showing exclusively motion pictures. A thorough analysis of period newspapers, trade journals, and some business records covering Wells’ career provides much-needed evidence for film and cultural historians wishing to understand the genesis and evolution of public amusements in the region, and its negotiation of traditional social and cultural institutions. In the 1890s, Wells played and managed several professional baseball teams in the South. The sport educated players and spectators alike to both the values and creed of New South progress, and to rising tensions confronting the intersection of modern and traditional forms of culture. Using his experiences and contacts gained in baseball, Wells helped foster a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation required for the progress of media industries in the region, establishing social networks of knowledge and improving distribution flows of entertainment. The dissertation explores how race and the genteel emerged as regional characteristics most influential to the success of this conversion in many urban areas. Protestants and evangelical culture served as the bulkhead supporting opposition to new amusements. Wells’ expansion plans and violations of Sabbath day laws evoked a “spatial” battle between commercialism and religion where political, social, and cultural power drawn from place and identity were challenged and reconfigured. Another chapter explores the exhibition and reception of early Civil War films in the region. Wells and other exhibitors were influential in their production and circulation nationwide, and positioned cinema as an alternative shrine to commemorate the Lost Cause in many communities. The last chapter shows how Wells failed to meet local demands and consumer desires in competition with the rise of national chain theaters and Hollywood’s vertical integration.
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Doswell, Raymond. "Evaluating educational value in museum exhibitions : establishing an evaluation process for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/741.
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Benjamin, Joy Delorenza. "The 2004 Japanese Professional Baseball Collective Bargaining Negotiations: A Qualitative Case Study." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/13.
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Walton and McKersie (1965) defined relationship patterns as those shared attitudes that are important to negotiators when they are interacting together. In the case of the 2004 Japanese Professional Baseball collective bargaining negotiations, Dabscheck (2006) discussed the major issues and events that led to the two (2) day labor strike. However, his article did not describe how the relationship pattern between the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the Japanese
Professional Baseball Players Association (JPBPA) changed to facilitate the settlement of the conflict. Along the same vein, researchers (Adair, Brett, & Okumura, 2001; Adair & Brett, 2005; Deck, Farmer, & Zeng, 2009; and Doucet, Jehn, Weldon, & Wang, 2009; Drake, 1995; Neu, 1988; and McDaniel, 2000) attempted to show a link between negotiator behavior from cultural and communication perspectives, however, there was little empirical attention paid to the psychological process, such as thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and attitudes, and its link to negotiator behavior leaving a gap in the existing scholarly literature. To address the gap in Dabscheck's (2006) article and the existing scholarly literature, I utilized Yin's (2009) Case Study Research Approach to qualitative inquiry by analyzing document reviews and engaging collaboratively with research participants through focused interviews to investigate how the relationship pattern in the 2004 Japanese Professional Baseball collective bargaining negotiations changed from the beginning to the end of the conflict if at all.
I found that the NPB and the JPBPA institutional pattern of relationship at the start of the conflict began with a containment-aggression relationship pattern, and over four (4) months, the pattern of relationship did change from containment-aggression to cooperation. Upon further investigation, I found that the NPB and the JPBPA negotiators operated initially in the distributive bargaining sub-process utilizing reinforcement tactics, but over the course of four (4) months, they began to operate in the integrative bargaining sub-process with the utilization of cognitive balance tactics even though the NPB and the JPBPA negotiators never abandoned operating in the distributive bargaining sub-process. In essence, they operated in hybrid distributive and integrative sub-processes at the same time. Moreover, I discovered that the NPB and the JPBPA moved from containment-aggression to cooperation not only because of a change in the NPB's lead negotiator position, but also because of a shared emotional moment between the NPB and the JPBPA negotiators, which initiated a shift away from stalemate. Although environmental factors, such as the media, fans, politicians, and other unions, over the course of four (4) months did not waiver in their support for the resolution of the conflict, the evidence did not directly demonstrate the way that their support and their influence manifested in the collective bargaining negotiations.
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Wormington, Larry J. "Last Known Tomorrow." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1767.
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Vokoun, Jennifer Ann. "Diamond in the Rough: Telling the Story of Hough's League Park with Temporary Environmental Graphic Design." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1322515977.
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Lohr, Jonathan. "Octagon House." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313632158.
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Suchma, Philip C. "From the best of times to the worst of times professional sport and urban decline in a tale of two Clevelands, 1945-1978 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1133300791.
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Rutecki, Jared W. "Enhancing the Agenda: A Content Analysis of Weekly Magazine Coverage of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in Competitive Athletics, 1986-2006." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1241446015.
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Brattström, Rutger. "När uppstod det globala supporterskapet? : Och vad har det med radio att göra?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-384374.
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Denna uppsats visar hur vissa klubbägare i Major League Baseball började se det geografiskt obundna supporterskapet som en lukrativ möjlighet i 30-talets USA vilket indikerar att denna form av supporterskap växte fram under decenniet. Detta tycks främst ha varit en effekt av att matcherna direktsändes på radio, men idéen om att publiken kunde vara emotionellt investerat kan vara något som klubbägarna fick från det supporterskap som fanns inom college-fotbollen.Pionjärerna för detta var klubbägare i mellanvästern, och deras drivkrafter för att försöka hjälpa supporterskapets utveckling med radiosändningar var strikt ekonomiska. Det finns också stöd för att det var ägare till sämre lag som såg mest att vinna på denna utveckling genom att få en publik som skulle stödja laget oavsett spelkvalitén på planen.
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Mack-Washington, Marta Notai. "From both sides of the plate : Negro league baseball's Effa Manley disrupts the American mythology of race and ethnicity, 1897-1948." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5963.
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Imagine for a moment waking up one morning to find that what or with whom you had come to identify racially was built on a foundation of ambiguities, silences, deceptions and sacred secrets. This scenario offers snapshot of Effa Louisa Brooks Manley’s life on the color line. Manley, former co-owner of the Negro League Baseball franchise (1935-1948), the Newark Eagles, disrupts American notions about what it means to be Black or white. A white mother and two black stepfathers raised her with her siblings as a Negro. However, it was not until Manley was a teenager that her mother revealed to her that her biological father also racially identified as white. This study examines the way Effa Manley performed identity at the boundaries of blackness and whiteness from the turn of the 20th century through 1945. I argue that Manley was more than a white woman who simply passed for Black. She reconciled being Black and becoming white, by exploiting the American mythology of race and culturally identified as a Negro. I explore how her self-identification complicates racial and ethnic belonging, by analyzing the identity choices she made while traversing the fault lines of race in her early life as well as the way she performed identity in the interviews she gave before her death in 1981.
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Chamberlain, Mike. "Baseball on the air : reinterpretations of the history of radio baseball." Thesis, 1996. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/175/1/MQ25963.pdf.
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This study examines the history of the radio broadcasting of major league baseball games. The evolution of the genre is placed within the context of the rise of monopoly capitalism and the establishment of a commercial broadcasting model in the United States. The debate over the relationship between baseball and radio that took place in the 1930s is described, as is the evolution of baseball announcing practices. Finally, the study considers the fan experience of radio baseball as it has been described in poetry, literature, and the movies. Throughout, the study describes discourses around the production and reception of radio baseball and addresses gaps and failings in the historiography of radio baseball.
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Bower, Scott Clayton. "The history and influence of black baseball in the United States and Indianapolis /." 1991. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/62.
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FAN, CHIANG CHUN-CHIEH, and 范姜俊傑. "History of Taoyuan Municipal Pingjen Senior High School Big Baseball League." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3tjk8k.
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The Taoyuan Municipal Pingjen Senior High School league has been established for more than 15 years. In the beginning, it was not a dominant team among Taiwan’s traditional high school baseball. Nevertheless, a stable source of players, the effort of Teacher Chang Cang-Bin and the coaching team to in-tegrate the Little League, Senior League and Big League in Taoyuan City, regular outside resources and the support of the city municipal government enabled grass root baseball in Taoyuan City to develop steadily and form the cornerstone for the three baseball leagues in Pingjen. In recent years, the team has participated and won awards at various national level com-petitions such as the Donggao Cup, the Care Cup, the High School League Matches, the Yushan Cup, the Black Panther Flag and the Wang Chen-Chih Cup. In the last few years, Pingjen Senior High School has also decidedly become the best training ground for outstanding players for the Chinese Taipei Senior Baseball League, scouting events for middle, vocational and senior high schools, and joint domestic league matches. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the history of baseball development in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan City. Us-ing historical research and oral history method, information on Taoyuan Municipal Pingjen Senior High School Big Baseball League from 2003 to 2019 were collected. In addition, the study also utilized qualitative semi-structure interviews and literature review of newspapers and magazines reports. First of all, oral history obtained from core and relevant figures in the Taoyuan Municipal Pingjen Senior High School Big Baseball League were recorded and used as the main source of information for writing. The study findings showed that after the baseball team was form, a professional coaching system was established and stu-dents were given comprehensive career planning. Taoyuan City's passion for baseball was steadily set ablaze, and a com-plete baseball map gradually emerged. Moreover, through the many years of groundwork and effort by Teacher Chang Cang -Bin, Teacher Liao Tsai-Neng and the entire coaching staff, the city became known as Baseball City. A comprehensive educational system is in place to allow students to pursue their education in nearby areas. Team members are also expected to perform well in both their games and academics. Upon graduation, students have the opportunity to remain in Taoyuan as a coach or player. Hence it is only by providing students with such a sound career plan that a longer term goal and future can be achieved.
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Tseng, Wu Ching, and 曾武清. "Internet and Collective Memory: Initiating from Dragon Soul in Taiwan Baseball History." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77e55z.
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For all the baseball fans of Wei Chuan Dragon team, the winter of 1999 was incredibly freezing. Though Dragon team won the final champion, Wei Chuan corp. still disbanded Dragon team in the name of economic recession. The fans campaigned the first baseball street demonstration in Taiwan. Afterwards, they shifted to Internet and continually construct the collective memory between Dragon fans. By means of ceremony of collective participation in internet, we see the soul of Dragon never ever fade away. This research is the first one which discusses “collective memory” under the context of internet. It not only explores how “collective memory” coheres internet community but also talks about the influence of internet upon memory construction. By adopting qualitative approach research, this research also selects Dragons in the Badcow BBS as case study. Three research method are adopted—text analysis, intensive interview and participant observation. 1761 internet posts are used and 16 fans are selected as interviewees. Also, the research also gathers the multiple information of both online and offline to depict out more clearly what Dragon fans memory look like. It is found that fans’ collective memory goes through the present and the past. It both proves Halbwachs’ present approach and fits Schwartz’ historic viewpoint. Besides, collective memory can also draw a distinction between “us” and “others”. Meanwhile, the board chief owns the power to shape the way of expressing and interpreting memory on internet. It shows the imbalance phenomenon and chasing game in discursive power. Fans also adopt two strategies in constructing their own memory. One way is selective memory used to represent the past glory and condense the identity. The other one is disguising themselves as victim to strengthen the correctness of memory. Internet, as a memory carrier, can bring possibility and constraints at the same time. Though internet supplies connection channel and raises participation level, it cannot reach so-called rational discussion. In this way, the opinions easily go to the extreme and stir up dissension. The representation of memory is getting more chaotic because of the floating identity in internet. The hypertext also upsides down the logic of liner description and brings about cracked memorial pictures. Nowadays, fans can only embrace fragmented memory by yelling out their grand past glory. In sum, internet can give a temporary shelter for Dragon fans to keep the memory. Only if fans can use online discussion and offline activity, however, the memory can have chance to remain forever. The research, first of all, draws back to theory study. The concept of “collective” has gone beyond traditional space-time idea because of the development of internet. It is a network based on online and offline relations and brings about more uncertainty to memory construction. Contrary to baseball history discourse controlled by governmental and commercial power, fans can get rid of these two restrains and display a possibility of down-to-top description ability. Also, fans precisely manifest by internet that how the process of collective memory construction can understand the past, solve the present and forecast the future. In this way, every group should cope with memory more cautiously.
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Chiu, Wei-Cheng, and 邱韋誠. "The Baseball History of Amis Tribe: Dimensions of Body Culture and Identity." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cyu4hp.
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This study reconstructed a baseball history in the subjective position of Amis tribe. Theory: Under the paradigm of historical sociology, related theories or concepts should be referred to their collective situation in ethnic development and social change. Study approaches: Equipping with synthetic approaches of discursive analysis and oral history, therefore, this study tries to (re) contextualize aborigines in the nexus of baseball history and aboriginal history. It revealed the subjective experience and body culture of Amis aborigines which embedded in baseball history, moreover, the collective memory and identity in the ethnic history which been contextualized. Conclusion: Amis People’s collective and social memories of baseball were interacted in the very fabric of their daily life and garner its own cultural dynamism. Social network is very important for the tribal members to contact baseball and start their sporting career. Besides, we take collective memory, identity, and social network as theoretical tools to examine and construct the intra-diversity between indigenous baseball practices. In addition, it also discusses how they perceive their own bodies, and the relationship between their body practice and ethnic-identity in baseball. Suggestions: this study suggested a ‘post-national paradigm’ as an alternative access for future studies to reconstruct the historical subject and identity discourse, and then to explore the development style of body culture and identity disposition, last but not least, to avoid reproducing the domination of power and knowledge complex.
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Wang, Shiang-Hui, and 王湘卉. "A History of Three Levels Baseball in Shan-Hua, Tainan (1975–2010)." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01178688636378084567.
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碩士國立臺南大學
體育學系碩士班
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Shan-Hua Elementary School Under 12 Baseball Team obtain the victory of the Little League Baseball World Championship in Williamsport in 1990 and 1995, hereafter started the Little League Baseball in Taiwan. However, the glory of the Shan-Hua Elementary School Under 12 Baseball Team is no longer existed. Therefore, this study has been carried out to explore the development of the Little League Baseball in Shan-Hua region. This study includes the history exploration, with the support of the interviewing of some people related to the development of the Shan-Hua Baseball Team in Tainan. The study report is as follows: Shan-Hua Elementary School Under 12 Baseball Team was established in 1975. They achieved victory of the Little League Baseball World Championship in Williamsport in both 1990 and 1995. That was the most glorious era of the team. However, the fame did not last for long, as they gradually experienced some difficulties in managing the team as well as started. Now-a-day, the team mainly focus on develop the interest of baseball in children and maintain that interest during training. Shan-Hua Junior High School Under 15 Baseball Team was established in 1995, followed the winning of the Under 12 Team. The Shan-Hua Under 15 Team then won the 1996 AA World Youth Championship. Now, the Shan-Hua Junior High School Under 15 Baseball Team is the main way for Elementary School of Shan-Hua to further their study after graduation. It is also the main way for High School Baseball Team to train their younger players on baseball skills. Shan-Hua Senior High School Under 18 Baseball Team was established in 1996. Although the performance gradually retarded, they had never give up. These three school’s baseball teams were managed by one coach, sharing the same field to train and compete. However, due to disciplinary difficulties, other coaches were employed to manage the teams separately, but still take turns using the field. At present, the main difficulties faced are the recruiting and fundraising. The tertiary level schools have difficulty recruiting sufficient students to play baseball. They must then recruit students from other schools around town. The funds are mainly from the government support, with some funds from the large business companies and local people. Comparatively, the High School baseball team requires more funds than others. The establishment of the youth and junior baseball organization in Shan-Hua district was due to the social environment and local council policies. After the victory of two Little League Baseball World Championship of the Shan-Hua Elementary School Baseball Team, the regional council intended to keep the spirit and sportsmanship within Shan-Hua. The Shan-Hua Baseball Teams started with fame but gradually the light went dime, and now, with insufficient players on the team, they, desperately need for supports. However, even with insufficient resources, the teams are still continuously educating more high quality young ball-players, and help them to go through to their education both on and off the sports field. The three Shan-Hua school has the combined and integrated training program for student-athletes studying in Shan-Hua Elementary School through Senior High School, or even right through the professional level. It continues to be one of the top baseball development centers in Taiwan.
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Chen, Nan-Chou, and 陳南州. "The America professional baseball hundred years the history of the development research." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73348254397528498665.
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碩士國立體育學院
體育研究所
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ABSTRACT A thesis study the history origins of the America baseball development and America the professional baseball a remaining years of life the history of come review。The America can say nowadays whole world Profession baseball the source exercise, Profession baseball exercise from 1839 by year reaches Abner Doubleday invents up to now,over exceeds a half century。On this long years and numerous affairs, Writer difference America baseball history origins、Two Profession baseball alliance、small alliance and choose player system、The classic sport the thing、individual achievement、Twenty century dream team selects、Thirty a great time、America president and Profession of Tradition and Inherit、Profession baseball stadium of changes to wait until 9 topics to proceed review and to study。 A thesis use history research the method and the cultural heritage analysis method regard as major research method, Cause a written language to belong to athletics exercise history realm of research, Past historical data the collect and to research to become the thesis important steps and turning point。A thesis major research purpose have two:(1) pairs of a remaining years of life comes the America Profession baseball the history of the stick development Do systematic tidies up。(2) conduct our country development Profession baseball the reference of exercise and the lessons。 History research can not escape from the man、the thing、the time、the place、the products，fifth factors, and local concerning America Profession baseball the primitive of the thesis is more little, Therefore its historical data the true or not true and judges becomes a research the most major limit。 A thesis belong to systhesize of foundation research, to research layer relations extensive, Research depth has insufficient, in regard to relative after renews the research, Still has very big to study the space。
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Willis, Giovanni Nichole 1974. "Diamond-shaped American dreams: race and national identity in contemporary baseball films." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3652.
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Wu, Hsin-Chian, and 吳欣蒨. "The Baseball History of National Taiwan University of Sport from 1961 to 1989." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37319130979282781915.
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碩士國立臺灣體育運動大學
體育研究所
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NTUS baseball team was founded in 1961. The aim of this study is to explore the development process of the team from 1961 to 1989 with documentary analysis and semi-structured interview, under which the process of establishment and management was examined. In the 1960s, the team had obtained outstanding results during this period of time. However, in the mid-1970s, the team plummeted to their lowest point that continued to 1979. The team started afresh but still had poor records. Since 1989, the team had cooperated with Jungo Corporation and turned their fortune around. This study also describes the process during this period and explores the model of management, the source of players, and players’ training and future development.
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Reynolds, Colin Thomas. "A summer wildfire : how the greatest debut in baseball history peaked and dwindled over the course of three months." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3333.
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The narrative itself is an ageless one, a fundamental Shakespearean tragedy in its progression. A young man is deemed invaluable and exalted by the public. The hero is cast into the spotlight and bestowed with insurmountable expectations. But the acclamations and pressures are burdensome and the invented savior fails to fulfill the prospects once imagined by the public. He is cast aside, disregarded as a symbol of failure or one deserving of pity. It’s the quintessential tragedy of a fallen hero.
The protagonist of this report is Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg, who enjoyed a phenomenal rookie season before it ended abruptly due to a severe elbow injury. But from a broader perspective, this report considers the current state of baseball in American society. The immense anticipation of Strasburg’s debut in early June of 2010 was unprecedented and his success sparked the public’s interest. But the 21-year-old failed to seize our adoration and his injury left many disappointed and disengaged. During a time when the casual baseball fan was disinterested and even the devoted felt disenchanted, Strasburg provided a brief reprieve from the controversies and allegations. Americans could connect with their beleaguered National Pastime once more.
Although Strasburg is the driving force, his role as “savior” could have been bestowed upon anyone. Nothing about his personality or looks or charisma garnered him such high esteem, but just his uncanny ability to throw a baseball. On the surface he is just a young prodigy in a long line of highly touted successes and failures – and he certainly won’t be the last. In essence, the star alone does not compose the story, but rather it’s the ideology surrounding him.
Lastly, Strasburg’s narrative is still unfinished. As in any tragic tale comes the hope of redemption. This unknown conclusion is fitting for a baseball narrative where every year begins afresh and endless possibilities emerge. As essayist Alexander Pope once noted, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” The same is true in baseball.text
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Duquette, Jerold John. "The baseball anomaly: A regulatory paradox in American political development." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809329.
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Major League Baseball, alone among industries of its size in the United States, operates as an unregulated monopoly. This twentieth century regulatory anomaly has become known simply as the "baseball anomaly." Major League Baseball developed into a major commercial enterprise without being subject to antitrust liability. Long after the interstate commercial character of baseball had been established, and even recognized by the Supreme Court, baseball's monopoly remained free from federal regulation. This study explains the baseball anomaly by connecting baseball's regulatory status to the larger political environment, tracing the game's fate through four different regulatory regimes in the United States. The constellation of institutional, ideological and political factors within each regulatory regime provides the context for the persistence of the baseball anomaly. Baseball's unregulated monopoly persists because of the confluence of institutional, ideological and political factors which have prevented the repeal of baseball's antitrust exemption to date. However, both the institutional and ideological factors, which have in the past protected baseball's unregulated monopoly, are fading. Baseball's owners can no longer claim special cultural significance in defense of the exemption, nor can they claim that the commissioner system approximates government regulation sufficiently. Both of these strategies have been discredited by the labor unrest in baseball over the last decade. While baseball is one labor strike away from losing part of its exemption, it will likely retain the aspects of the exemption which cover the contractual relationship between the major and minor leagues, as well as the part of the exemption which allows Major League Baseball to regulate the migration of individual franchises. These aspects of baseball's exemption with likely be codified and expanded to all professional sports leagues. The eventual partial repeal of baseball's exemption and the likely expansion of part of baseball's exemption to other sports makes it both an outdated anomaly and a harbinger of sports antitrust policy in the twenty first century.
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"Entering Sacred Ground: Public History at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.20829.
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abstract: Baseball is the quintessential American game. To understand the country one must also understand the role baseball played in the nation's maturation process. Embedded in baseball's history are (among other things) the stories of America's struggles with issues of race, gender, immigration, organized labor, drug abuse, and rampant consumerism. Over the better part of two centuries, the national pastime both reflected changes to American culture and helped shape them as well. Documenting these changes and packaging them for consumption is the responsibility of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Founded as a tourist attraction promoting largely patriotic values, in recent decades the Baseball Hall of Fame made a concerted effort to transform itself into a respected member of the history museum community--dedicated to displaying American history through the lens of baseball. This dissertation explores the evolution of the Baseball Hall of Fame from celebratory shrine to history museum through an analysis of public history practice within the museum. In particular, this study examines the ways the Hall both reflected and reinforced changes to American values and ideologies through the evolution of public history practice in the museum. The primary focus of this study is the museum's exhibits and analyzing what their content and presentation convey about the social climate during the various stages of the Baseball Hall of Fame's evolution. The principal resources utilized to identify these stages include promotional materials, exhibit reviews, periodicals, and photographic records, as well as interviews with past and present Hall-of-Fame staff. What this research uncovers is the story of an institution in the midst of a slow transition. Throughout the past half century, the Hall of Fame staff struggled with a variety of obstacles to change (including the museum's traditionally conservative roots, the unquestioning devotion Americans display for baseball and its mythology, and the Hall of Fame's idyllic setting in a quaint corner of small-town America) that undermined their efforts to become the type of socially relevant institution many envisioned. Contending with these challenges continues to characterize much of the museum's operations today.Dissertation/Thesis
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Lin, Yi Chih, and 林奕志. "Frangible or strong in imagination -the process of history of baseball Pitcher's rotation in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2x63v9.
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碩士國立政治大學
社會學研究所
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This study explores the process of baseball pitcher policy in Taiwan. The process showed a long but significant change in pitcher policy, and made the loading of pitcher decrease. The process continued more than 40 years and there were three important historic events in it. The first was the “Youth Baseball Period” in 1970’s. The second was the professionalization of Taiwan baseball in 1990. And the third was the “Traveling Outside Period” in 2000’s, which made lots of excellent players travelled to America or Japan. This research analyzed the process carefully, and found that the change of pitcher didn’t base on the progress of medicine, although we usually think it was. The study found that the change based on the interest of groups which involved in the network. Some groups supported decreasing the loading of pitcher, some opposed. All they concerned about were their own interest. This research analyzed the process by Actor-Networking Theory (ANT) and found a key-factor which determined the pitcher policy. The factor was Sabermetrics, which means people who believe baseball statistics can express more “reality” in baseball game. They also believe statistics can tell more than just watching game in court. The Sabermetrics finally combined their interest with groups which supported decreasing the pitcher loading, and caused the pitcher policy tend to decrease the pitcher loading at present.
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HUANG, CHIH-HSIANG, and 黃志祥. "A Study of Developing History and Current Status for Chinese Professional Baseball League : Application of Strategic Management Model." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36tzec.
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碩士大葉大學
運動事業管理學系
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This study analyzed the development and current status of Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Two approaches were used in this paper: the first one was historical data and related literature analysis, and the second one was strategy management analysis. This study focused on SWOT analysis which including (i) the organization development of CPBL, (ii) the management of each professional baseball team, (iii) the baseball industry development, (iv) how CPBL can cope with the global competition and (v) how the government policies can support the development of professional baseball sport in Taiwan. The researcher tried to figure out the advantages and disadvantages of CPBL through the SWOT analysis. Moreover, this study collected the data including point of view of the professional team managers, related literature and information from the newspaper articles to analyze the advantages and disadvantages. From the findings of this study, three suggestions are provided for the future development of CPBL. Firstly, CPBL needs professional baseball industry upgrade to be more competitive. Secondly, CPBL needs to pursue a better and market-oriented strategy. Finally, CPBL needs right attitude to run its own business.
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Labelle, Christophe. "Les débats publics suscités par la création des Expos de Montréal." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/14022.
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Les années 1960 au Québec sont marquées par un vigoureux courant nationaliste prônant l’affirmation politique et culturelle des francophones dans la province. Également, le phénomène de l’américanisation du territoire québécois s’accélère. C’est dans ce cadre historique particulier que naissent en 1968 les Expos de Montréal, équipe du circuit de baseball le plus important au monde, soit la Ligue du baseball majeur. La MLB s’installe alors dans un territoire où le baseball est centenaire. L’objectif de ce mémoire est d’étudier les débats et réactions suscités par l’avènement de Montréal dans le baseball majeur, en déterminant l’influence qu’y ont joué le nationalisme québécois des années 1960, l’américanisation du Québec et la longue histoire du baseball dans la province. Si les deux communautés linguistiques de celle-ci sont ici à l’étude, il n’en demeure pas moins que l’attention est davantage portée sur les francophones que les anglophones. En effet, ceux-ci ont semblé davantage interpelés par la création des Expos. D’ailleurs, parmi les deux groupes, les positions les plus documentées sont celles des chroniqueurs sportifs, qui se retrouvent donc au cœur de notre étude. Les opinions d’amateurs de baseball, de politiciens, d’hommes d’affaires ou de simples citoyens québécois sont également rapportées et analysées, mais dans une plus faible mesure.The 1960’s in Québec were marked by an intense nationalist movement promoting the political and cultural affirmation of the province’s francophone population. Also, the americanization of the territory was accelarating. It’s in this particular historical context that were born the Montreal Expos, in 1968, the team being part of the most important baseball league in the world, The Major League Baseball. The MLB then settled on a land where baseball is centenary. The goal of this master thesis is to study the debates and reactions that were created by the advent of Montreal in major baseball, and to determine the influence that the québécois nationalism, the Québec’s americanization and the long history of baseball in the province had on them. Even though both national communities of Québec are studied, the focus is further more on the francophones than the anglophones. The first ones seemed to be more interpellated by the creation of the Expos. Besides that, for the two linguistic groups, the actors who shared the most clearly and often their positions are the sports journalists, whom are in the center of our analysis. The opinions of baseball fans, politicians, buisness men and regular Quebec’s citizens are also presented and analyzed, but with less attention.
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Tsai, Po-Jen, and 蔡博任. "The baseball history of Taiwan strived for World Series Little League Champion: The Basic Baseball of Taiwan was developed with the state apparatus after World War II �o The rise and decline of Mei-Ho High School Baseball Team is the research of th." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70787484655576867595.
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Liu, Chung-Lin, and 劉仲霖. "The Exploration of the History of Taiwan’s Print Media Constructing Nationalism – The News of Japanese Baseball Team Competition in Taiwan（1990-2003）." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17369673162396964060.
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碩士國立臺南大學
體育學系碩士班
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International baseball competitions held in Taiwan are often the center of attention of the media. International competitions spark passion and nationalism in people; however when Japanese professional baseball teams were invited to Taiwan and competed with the local Taiwanese professional baseball teams, the news reports were in fact misleading. Nationalist phrases such as “Chinese Skilled Athlete” or “Taiwan’s Spirit” were not widely broadcasted in the news, and instead the news focused on the off-site highlights, technical exchanges, or goodwill and friendships. The so-called nationalism, is it something shaped by the media, or a passion abided in the hearts of the people? The research aimed to further discuss the impact on nationalism during the arrival of Japanese baseball teams — whether the sense of nationalism was as strong as it used to be, how media constructed nationalism by its every report, and did nationalism exist in those printed media. The two main discussion topics of the research were: 1. how was the nationalism presented in the media? 2. How did nationalism change in the media? Thus, the research focused on analyzing the news of Japanese professional baseball team competing in Taiwan in the period of 1993 to 2003. Using the narrative criticism method, the research explored on how print media constructed and presented nationalism, and whether there was a change in nationalism. Conclusions were as follows: First, nationalism only appeared in the news report before and during the competition. After the competition, results of the news reports were very diverse. Second, the media did not show consistency and rationality in the construction of nationalism; the media’s reports regarding the competition became a ‘tool’ for various groups. Baseball in Taiwan showed that nationalism is not just a medium for these event-related organizations or groups, but also a trick and tool.
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Harney, John James. "Retrocession, partition and sporting communities in fractured societies : baseball in Taiwan and Gaelic games in Ireland, 1884-1968." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4379.
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This dissertation examines the roles of popular sports baseball and Gaelic Games in Taiwanese and Irish society respectively between the years 1884 and 1968. During this period, the spread of each sport in popularity and the subsequent increased profile in the public realm highlighted similar challenges faced by the societies of each territory as inhabitants of minor players in a global political system dominated by major powers.
The development of Taiwanese baseball and its spread in popularity during the colonial period reveals the extent to which divisions between colonial Japanese and local Taiwanese blurred beyond the parameters of governmental efforts at coexistence and assimilation. Two teams in particular, the Nenggao team of 1924-25 and the KANO team of 1931, give evidence of a colonial Taiwanese sporting culture that featured strengthening connections with sporting culture in Japan. In both cases, baseball displayed potential as an integrating force in colonial Taiwanese society between social groups resident on the island rather than as a source for opposition to colonial rule. This is in direct contrast to Irish society, where the resurgence in popularity of Gaelic Games occurred within the political context of exclusivist nationalism. Gaelic Games existed as cultural markers of an Irish culture defined by a Gaelic ethnic identity and political commitment to an Irish nation state, choosing to ignore the realities of partition and the existence of a sizable Loyalist community in the north of the country.
This viewpoint persisted until the late 1960s, when the eruption of paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland irrevocably changed the terms of Irish political participation. At the same time, Taiwanese baseball transitioned from a shared cultural form between Taiwan and Japan to a potent avenue for emerging Taiwanese political voices in 1968 with the widely celebrated success of the Hongye schoolboy baseball team. Baseball’s popularity had persisted in the face of ambivalent attitudes among ruling Guomindang officials following retrocession, but the Hongye victory marked the introduction of specific political overtones to Taiwanese baseball, bringing an end to decades of the sport’s primary role as an act of public participation with limited political connotations.text
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Vlk, Jan. "Vybrané kapitoly z historie baseballu ve světě a ČR." Master's thesis, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-270447.
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Vybrané kapitoly z historie baseballu ve světě a ČR Selected chapters from baseball history in the world and the Czech Republic Cíl práce: Zpracovat prapočátky baseballu a vyřešit otázku původu baseballu, zmínit nejvýznamnější momenty ve světové historii baseballu, analyzovat historii a současnou situaci baseballu v ČR a navrhnout možnosti zlepšení situace v Česku. Metoda: Pro zpracování základních informací z historie baseballu byla v největším rozsahu použita metoda přímá, induktivní a deduktivní. Dále pak bylo použito metody diachronní progresivní, kvantitativní a komparativní. Výsledky: Mohou pomoci seznámit se s baseballovým odvětvím, blíže pak s jeho celosvětovým vývojem. Klíčová slova: Baseball, Major league baseball, American league, Nationalleague, liga, tým, hráč, USA. V Praze, dne 31. srpna 2006. 1