12 pages, Times New Roman size 12 font, 1 inch margins, chicago manual style citations with footnotes.
Analyze the relationship between the United States and Dominican Republic in the U.S. recruiting Dominican players for the MLB. Use the dependency theory and Appadurai’s concept of disjuncture in ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’. Help the reader understand how the sport of baseball arbitrates the relationship between the United States and the Dominican Republic. Provide a brief history of the American influence of baseball growth in the Dominican Republic as well as the problems globalization of baseball has caused between the two countries. Through primary and secondary resource explain the following in connection to Dominican players coming to the United States for major league baseball: 1) The idea, benefits, and consequences of the “baseball academy,” defined as the plucking, refining, and shipping of Dominican baseball players to prepare them for the MLB 3) the benefits and consequences of Dominican Republic MLB players and families 4) the economy and poverty of the dominican republic and 5) the education of Dominican children.
Please use the following resources as well as any resources you can find:
Alfano, Peter. “Barriers to Advancement Thwart Hispanic Players.” The New York Times, May 4,1987.https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/04/sports/barriers-to-advancement-thwart-hispanic-players.html.
Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Theory, Culture, and Society 295, no. 7 (1990): 295-300.
Baseball Almanac.“Major League Baseball Players by Birthplace During the 2019 Season.” Assessed March 1, 2020. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php?y=2019.
Bautista, Jose. “The Cycle.” The Players Tribune. April 2, 2015. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/jose-bautista-dominican-baseball-prospects-mlb.
Bouchet, Adrien, Michael Troilo, and Jon Welty Peachey. “Major League Baseball and the Dominican Republic: What is in the Best Interest of the Players?” Sport Management Review 16, no. 2 (2013): 236-250.
Chass, Murray. “Dodgers Get to Keep Beltre, but Are Penalized.” The New York Times, December 22, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/22/sports/baseball-dodgers-get-to-keep-beltre-but-are-penalized.html.
Drysdale, Charlie. “Baseball Academies in the Dominican Republic: From Sweatshops to Big Business.” SB Nation, Apr. 2013. https://www.minorleagueball.com/2013/4/9/4203922/b…
Hanlon, Ryan S. “School’s Out Forever: The Applicability of International Human Rights Law to Major League Baseball Academies in The Dominican Republic” Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, 26, no. 1 (2013): 235-258.
Marichal, Juan, and Lew Freedman. Juan Marichal: My Journey from the Dominican Republic to Coooperstown. MVP Books, 2011.
Meyer, Carrie A., and Seth Kuhn. “Effects of Major League Baseball on Economic Development in the Dominican Republic.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3148304.
Nass, Sarah. “Dependency Theory Reloaded: Exploring Baseball in the Dominican Republic.” Thesis, Western Kentucky University, 2016.
Vargas, Angel. “The Globalization of Baseball: A Latin American Perspective.” Indiana Journal
of Global Legal Studies 8, no. 1 (2000): 21-36.
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