The Empire Strikes Out

Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 4 p.m.

b'Robert Elias, author of "The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad," talks about baseball\'s unique status in America and how that status was always more than just symbolic. The full interview from a 2010 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.'