{"id":87,"date":"2026-09-23T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CKBB\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:04:10","slug":"publication-chosen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CKBB\/publication-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-section-5 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fd7faf85 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-section-5--1\" style=\"min-height:100vh;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-633b684a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CKBB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/walden_photo_8_2020_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:150px;border-bottom-right-radius:150px;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CKBB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/walden_photo_8_2020_1_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/CKBB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/walden_photo_8_2020_1_-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d8dce8eb wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Katherine Walden&#8217;s Dissertation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Walden also uses the same dissertation project and publishes it for the world to see. Her main argument is that professional baseball labor is too focused on the MLB, and the MiLB is severely overlooked, despite the MiLB containing the vast majority of the baseball labor system. She supports this argument by diving further into the baseball labor market as a whole, while expressing the globalization of foreign-born baseball players, and the demographic and geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links has-icon-color is-style-logos-only is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">Project and Publication Abstract<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Recent baseball scholarship has drawn attention to U.S. professional baseball\u2019s complex twentieth century labor dynamics and expanding global presence. From debates around desegregation to discussions about the sport\u2019s increasingly multicultural identity and global presence, the cultural politics of U.S. professional baseball is connected to the problem of baseball labor. However, most scholars address these topics by focusing on Major League Baseball (MLB), ignoring other teams and leagues\u2014Minor League Baseball (MiLB)\u2014that develop players for Major League teams. Considering Minor League Baseball is critical to understanding the professional game in the United States, since players who populate Major League rosters constitute a fraction of U.S. professional baseball\u2019s entire labor force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">As a digital humanities dissertation on baseball labor and globalization, this project uses digital humanities approaches and tools to analyze and visualize a quantitative dataset, exploring how Minor League Baseball relates to and complicates MLB-dominated narratives around globalization and diversity in U.S. professional baseball labor. This project addresses how MiLB demographics and global dimensions shifted over time, as well as how the timeline and movement of foreign-born players through the Minor Leagues differs from their U.S.-born counterparts. This project emphasizes the centrality and necessity of including MiLB data in studies of baseball\u2019s labor and ideological significance or cultural meaning, making that argument by drawing on data analysis, visualization, and mapping to address how MiLB labor complicates or supplements existing understandings of the relationship between U.S. professional baseball\u2019s global reach and \u201cnational pastime\u201d claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Citation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">Walden, Katherine. <em>Remapping and visualizing baseball labor: a digital humanities project<\/em>. 2019. Univ. of Iowa, PhD dissertation. Iowa Research Online. 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Her main argument is that professional baseball labor is too focused on the MLB, and the MiLB is severely overlooked, despite the MiLB containing the vast majority of the baseball labor system. 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