General

Jorge Knijnik

Jorge Knijnik, PhD, has been with the School of Education and the Institute for Culture and Society at University of Western Sydney, Australia, since 2009.

Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game

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American baseball is a child’s game played by adults, transformed from an amateur to a professional pursuit celebrated as a national pastime with an ability to generate ever increasing, untold wealth. Like other competitive team sports, baseball is a labor-intensive industry. Its production cannot be enhanced by substituting machines for players, downsizing or going off-shore−making players into devices at the disposal of employers who produce tangible products.

Stephanie J. Hanrahan

Stephanie Hanrahan, PhD, is associate professor and convenor of the sport and exercise psychology program at The University of Queensland.

Robert J. Schinke

Robert J. Schinke, is the Canada Research Chair in Multicultural Sport and Physical Activity and Professor of Sport Psychology in the School of Human Kinetics at Laurentian University. As a Canadian Sport Psychology Association accredited practitioner, Schinke has extensive experience working with national teams and professional athletes of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Schinke has authored more than 100 academic and applied articles and coedited nine textbooks—including The Cultural Turn in Sport Psychology (2010) and Sport...

Braham Dabscheck

Braham Dabscheck is a senior fellow, Faculty of Law, at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.