Comments on: Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home?

By: Jakob

Jakob — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:02:50 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title a Well – The Japan History Group Blog. Thanks for informative article

By: Nathan Miller

Nathan Miller — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:19:41 +0000

Fantastic post. I have lived in Kyushu for 8 years yet have never been to see a professional baseball game. The high school games here are great; it is as if you can see baseball dreams in the eyes of every player.

By: Crazyfinger

Crazyfinger — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:09:41 +0000

Jim Bennett says: “By the way, the World Series got its name because it was sponsored by the long-defunct newspaper the “New York World” “

Most everywhere I looked this up on the net, it comes up as a myth and false.

Regards, Crazyfinger

By: Jim Bennett

Jim Bennett — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:20:27 +0000

Excellent post. By the way, the World Series got its name because it was sponsored by the long-defunct newspaper the “New York World”.

By: Andrew Morris

Andrew Morris — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:24:45 +0000

To answer Alan Baumler’s question:

I am currently writing a book about baseball in Taiwan, and I have a few articles out recently, listed below. (The first one is in a journal from Taiwan; I’d be happy to e-mail a copy to anyone who reaches me at admorris@calpoly.edu. And the 2nd article listed here is pretty much a shortened version of the 3rd.)

“Savages, Traitors, Budweiser, and a History of Glocalization and Baseball in Taiwan.” 台灣史料研究 (Taiwan Historical Materials Studies) 28 (December 2006): 2-31.

“Taiwan: Baseball, Colonialism and Nationalism.” In George Gmelch, ed. Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime, pp. 65-88. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

“Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan.” In David K. Jordan, Andrew Morris, and Marc L. Moskowitz, eds. The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan, pp. 175-203. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

Andrew Morris
Associate Professor
History Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407