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4 pages in length. Baseball, America's hometown sport, has experienced a metamorphosis of cultural infusion since the early 1980s when a very large, very talented Mexican by the name of Fernando Valenzuela joined up as a pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After shutting out the Houston Astros in his first major league game, the country was swept with "Fernandomania," a grand reception for a foreign-born baseball player who single-handedly opened the door for all other international players to follow. Korean Pitcher Chan Ho Park, like his predecessor two decades before, also signed with the Dodgers but without benefit of any past professional experience. This critical detail did not impose upon Parks' ability to make a tremendous impression on the owners and the crowd alike, inasmuch as he inevitably made his first appearance on the season's opening day, 1994, a distinction that also cast him as major league's first Korean player. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Angeles Dodgers. After shutting out the Houston Astros in his first major league game, the country was swept with "Fernandomania" (Enders, 2005), a grand reception for a foreign-born baseball
player who single-handedly opened the door for all other international players to follow. Korean Pitcher Chan Ho Park, like his predecessor two decades before, also signed with the Dodgers
but without benefit of any past professional experience. This critical detail did not impose upon Parks ability to make a tremendous impression on the owners and the crowd alike,
inasmuch as he inevitably made his first appearance on the seasons opening day, 1994, a distinction that also cast him as major leagues first Korean player (Enders, 2005). But just
as important as Parks statistics are to the game of baseball is the positive influence he has imparted upon other Koreans who look to him as a role model for
their own achievements. Being the first to do anything is a monumental accomplishment, but doing so in the context of international cultural acclaim as Park has not only speaks
to conquering a tremendous personal goal by being signed to a major league baseball team, but also to closing the ever-widened ethnic bridge that continues to challenge social relations in
contemporary society. "The willingness of the Dodgers to scout and sign Asian-born players has opened the door for other teams to search for baseball talent in Asia. The
success of Japanese and Korean pitchers Hideo Nomo and Chan Ho Park has created a new fan base within the Los Angeles Asian community" (Marantz, 1996, p. 20).
The sporting world has long represented a melting pot of cultural acceptance; one of the most important examples upon which Parks Korean influence is
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