Sports
Tags: baseball, Cuba, economics of baseball, globalization, globalization of sports, Ichiro, Japan, MLB, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, WBC, World Baseball Classic
September 14, 2009
June 2, 2008
Ever since baseball was first played in the 1830s, the game has regarded as America’s national pastime.
However, baseball actually has more popularity in several foreign countries such as Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. As a result, baseball has had a tradition for over a century of being [...]
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Sports
Tags: basketball, Central Division, Eastern Conference, expansion, globalization of sports, Greece, Houston Rockets, Italy, NBA, NBA expansion into Europe, Spain, Western Conference
September 14, 2009
May 30th, 2008
Globalization has taken the hold of America’s major sport, but no league has had more success or a more involved future with the international market than the NBA.
Seventy-six of the NBA’s 360 active roster players are international players from thirty-eight different countries. Yao Ming regularly breaks the record for the most votes to [...]
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