The Development of Baseball Organizations in Japan

Abstract

Since 1873, Japanese amateur baseball organizations had developed through five stages which included such processes as the formalization and the role differentiation and specialization of baseball groups, the precise codification of the rules of the game and the regulations and provisions of tournaments and associations, the advancement of patterned skills, the improvement of baseball equipment which accompanied the technological development in Japanese society, and the formal acceptance of baseball ideology which mainly emphasized the mental and spiritual cultivation of players, that is, all the processes of institutionalization of Japanese baseball as a social institution.