Baseball Beyond Our Borders

Baseball Beyond Our Borders is a revised edition of the 2006 book Baseball Without Borders. It was published in 2017 by the University of Nebraska Press. Edited by George Gmelch and Daniel Nathan, it covers the history and culture around baseball in numerous countries. Many of the contributors were from the world of academia and the focus was more a historical and anthropological than a statistical one. Contributors included Franklin Otto, Harvey Shapiro, Thomas Van Hyning and Josh Chetwynd.

Included are writings on baseball in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Australia, Tanzania, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, Italy, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Finland. Unfortunately, the book closes with a cynical essay about the World Baseball Classic allegedly being an attempt by the USA, through MLB, to push other baseball countries to the sidelines, including extreme lies like "the World Baseball Cup typically featured fifty or more nations" when the Baseball World Cup (the real name) only once had more than 16 teams and never even 25, let alone 50, or wild claims that baseball was removed from the Olympics due to US foreign policy in the 2000s. However, other than that crazy chapter, it is a very interesting and informative book.