Baseball Diplomacy in Tokyo: How the Dodgers-Mariners Series Became America’s Latest Export of Soft Power and Soft Pretzels
Dodgers-Mariners: A Trans-Pacific Fever Dream in the Age of American Soft Power By the time the final out was recorded in Tokyo’s raucous Dome, the Dodgers and Mariners had managed to export America’s most leisurely three-hour product-placement carnival to an archipelago that still hasn’t forgiven us for the 1980s trade deficit. On paper, the series…