Kyle Schwarber’s Global Home-Run Empire: How One Ohioan Became Planetary Soft Power
From the banks of the Schuylkill to the neon canyons of Seoul, the name Kyle Schwarber is now muttered with the same bewildered reverence usually reserved for rogue central bankers or whoever keeps green-lighting Fast & Furious sequels. A 31-year-old left-handed slugger from Middletown, Ohio—population 48,000, or roughly one-third of the crowd that shows up…