How Long to Read The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers by William W. Kelly

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers. For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country’s most watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. Despite a largely losing record, perennial frustration, and infighting among players, the Tigers remain overwhelming sentimental favorites in many parts of the country. This book analyzes the Hanshin Tiger phenomenon, and offers an account of why it has long been so compelling and instructive. Author William Kelly argues that the Tigers represent what he calls a sportsworld —a collective product of the actions of players, coaching staff, management, media, and millions of passionate fans. The team has come to symbolize a powerful counter-narrative to idealized notions of Japanese workplace relations. The Tigers are savored as a melodramatic representation of real corporate life, rife with rivalries and office politics familiar to every Japanese worker. And playing in a historic stadium on the edge of Osaka, they carry the hopes and frustrations of Japan’s second city against the all-powerful capital.

How long is The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers?

The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers by William W. Kelly is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers aloud.

What Reading Level is The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers?

The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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