The Motherland, the Godfather, and the Birth of a Basketball Dynasty

American Efforts to Promote Basketball in Lithuania

Bibliographic Data

ID12218924
AuthorsChad Carlson (0000-0001-6490-7814, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume28
Issue11
Pages1479-1495
Publication date2011-07-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09523367.2011.586788
OpenAlexW2153115894
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

The United States transported basketball to other nations around the world in many different ways and with varying degrees of success during the early decades of the twentieth century. In Lithuania, the efforts of Lithuanian Americans star Frank Lubin and other Americans in Lithuania proved wildly successful and wove basketball into the fabric of Lithuanian national identity. Throughout the late 1930s, these members of the Lithuanian community in the United States spent a great deal of time in their motherland and changed local perceptions of basketball to the point at which it became Lithuania's national pastime

Amateur · Archaeology · Basketball · Lithuanian · Media studies · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society

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