{"product_id":"the-sportsworld-of-the-hanshin-tigers-professional-baseball-in-modern-japan-5-sport-in-world-history-9780520299412","title":"The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaseball 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 representwhat 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. The Tigers are savored as a melodramatic representation of real corporate life, rife with rivalries andoffice 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume is a must-read for those with even a passing interest in Japanese baseball.\" * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his book will be essential to readers who seek to learn more about . . . baseball and sport in Japan.\" * Contemporary Japan *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers\u003c\/i\u003e is strongly recommended to students, scholars, and general readers interested in baseball and\/or Japanese culture and history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Terms and Japanese Language\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons\u003cbr\u003e 3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans\u003cbr\u003e 4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches\u003cbr\u003e 5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation\u003cbr\u003e 6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators\u003cbr\u003e 7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media\u003cbr\u003e 8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment\u003cbr\u003e 9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Endnotes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Key Japanese Terms\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402909229399,"sku":"9780520299412","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520299412.jpg?v=1730481819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sportsworld-of-the-hanshin-tigers-professional-baseball-in-modern-japan-5-sport-in-world-history-9780520299412","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}