Growing The Game: The Globalization Of Major League Baseball

By ALAN KLEIN, Alan M. Klein

A sociologist and anthropologist scientifically examines the worldwide growth of MLB and America’s favorite pastime. Baseball fans understand the game has become increasingly international. Major l...

Contested Identities

By Peter Loizos, Evthmios Papataxiarchis, Alan M. Klein

In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society ba...

Baseball On The Border: A Tale Of Two Laredos

By ALAN KLEIN, Alan M. Klein

From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team...

Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice

By ALAN KLEIN, Alan M. Klein

Pedro Martínez. Sammy Sosa. Manny Ramírez. By 2000, Dominican baseball players were in every Major League clubhouse, and regularly winning every baseball award. In 2002, Omar Minaya became the firs...

Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice

By Alan M. Klein, Alan Klein

Pedro Martínez. Sammy Sosa. Manny Ramírez. By 2000, Dominican baseball players were in every Major League clubhouse, and regularly winning every baseball award. In 2002, Omar Minaya became the firs...

Dominican Baseball

By Alan M. Klein, Alan Klein

Pedro Martínez. Sammy Sosa. Manny Ramírez. By 2000, Dominican baseball players were in every Major League clubhouse, and regularly winning every baseball award. In 2002, Omar Minaya became the firs...

Two American Poets

By Daniel Halpern, Alan M. Klein, Paul Muldoon - Undifferentiated, Alan Klein, Paul Mariani