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Hamm said he was drawn to the true story of an agent looking for India’s first pro-baseball player

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

This 6 minute clip is a preview of the movie “Million Dollar Arm.”  It looks to be a fun movie, but what I find academically interesting about the movie is the portrayal of one of the countless fascinating cultural and economic mergers created by globalization.  The story is about the economic forces motivating baseball scouts to seek out untapped labor pools in areas such as India that were previously not a part of baseball’s cultural reach (and the really cool global lives of these individuals). 

Tags: sport, globalization, popular culture, economic, labor, India.

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