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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.  

Richard Pringle is an associate professor of socio-cultural studies of sport at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Dr. Murray Phillips teaches the history of sport in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Richard Lapchick is often described as “the racial conscience of sport.” He is the DeVos Eminent Scholar Chair and Director of the Sport Business Management Graduate Program in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida.

Daryl Adair is Associate Professor of Sport Management at University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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

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...

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