Ambassadors in Pinstripes

Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II, Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT, Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad and co-author of Globalization and the American Century.

• 1 Introduction: Baseball, Globalization, and Empire2 Marketing: Albert Spalding's Chicago3 Movement: The American West4 An Empire of Race: Southern Seas5 Old and New World Cultures: Europe6 National Identity: Return to America7 Conclusion: Imperial Imagination8 Bibliography

In 1888-89 two teams of professional baseball players squared off against one another on an international tour that included games in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, and England. In this delightful book, Thomas Zeiler tells the story of this tour and puts it in the context of the imperial expansion of the United States that was so much a part of our diplomacy at the end of the 19th century. On the one hand, this is baseball history for adults. On the other, it is a painless — even pleasurable — way to introduce students to the global foreign policy that Americans would implement thereafter.