Book: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer

[cutchemist42]

I've actually owned this book for years, loved it when I read it about 6 years ago.

[SouthwestAmAZins]

I'm glad someone else enjoyed it. Baseball might have been a little more widespread if the power brokers of the 19th century used some of MLB International's initiatives. Also, I am not sure if A.G. Spalding's World Tour fell on deaf ears or turned people off with its snake oil salesman-like pitch.

[CougaNova]

That was a good book. There wasn't a whole lot about international baseball, because his thesis is that baseball did NOT spread while soccer did.

He also buried a lot of the economic terminology and analysis in the footnotes.

[SouthwestAmAZins]

My two favorite sports by far. I'm definitely interested, depending on the content as the goals/reasoning the authors take. The premise isn't new of course, I'll have to check it out. If there is enough history rather than modem sociological opinions, I'd buy it.

I think you will enjoy it.

[StanTheMan]

My two favorite sports by far. I'm definitely interested, depending on the content as the goals/reasoning the authors take. The premise isn't new of course, I'll have to check it out. If there is enough history rather than modem sociological opinions, I'd buy it.

[SouthwestAmAZins]

Some folks on this forum may find this book interesting: