The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers : Professional Baseball in Modern Japan / William W. Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, William W., Author.

Series:

Sport in world history ; 5.

California scholarship online.

Sport in World History ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hanshin Taigāsu (Baseball team).

Baseball--Japan--20th century.

Baseball.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Baseball 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 represent what 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 and office 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terms and Japanese Language

1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball

2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons

3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans

4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches

5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation

6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators

7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media

8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment

9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex

10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present

Endnotes

Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing

Glossary of Key Japanese Terms

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520971141

0520971140

OCLC:

1039187431