Abstract
Cho delineates how Korean Major League Baseball fans construct their regional and global perspectives via consuming and enjoying baseball. By focusing on Korean fans’ online interactions during the 2006 World Baseball Classic (an international baseball tournament organized by MLB), this chapter shows that global sport and its mega-events intersect with re-constituting both national identities and regional relations, which also leads to the construction of global hierarchy via baseball. During the 2006 WBC, Korean MLB fans followed their national players, encountered regional rivalries, including Japan as the former colonizer, and admired American baseball and its superb players. Cho argues that the significance of MLB, beyond functioning as an interrogation between the national and the global, also contributes to building regional consciousness and sensibilities.
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Cho, Y. (2020). Articulation of the National, Regional, and Global. In: Global Sports Fandom in South Korea . Palgrave Series of Sport in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3196-5_7
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