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  Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow and the Commodity Audience

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  Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

  July 08, 2010

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  Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow and the Commodity Audience Stephen Strasburg flow Commodity Audience Baseball Curator's Note Last month, Stephen Strasburg made his Major League debut for the Washington Nationals. He sold out the ballpark, ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball

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  Elizabeth Rawitsch University of East Anglia

  October 24, 2011

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  Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball Take Me Out to the Ball Game Race/Ethnicity Nationality Mediating Baseball Baseball A League of Their Own Curator's Note Baseball has been considered America’s national pastime since th ...