1. Introduction: youth sport and social capital 2. Mechanisms of social capital creation and consumption in a youth baseball league 3. What resources do parents exchange in the VCLL? 4. Benefactors and beneficiaries in social capital exchanges 5. The curious case of child care: an anomaly within social capital exchange motives in a youth sport organization 6. From the kids to ‘The Kids’ – the development of negative social capital I a Little League Baseball organization 7. Epilogue: a discussion of the connections between youth sport and social capital 8. Appendix: the structure of the VCLL
Biography
Sean F. Brown is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Sport Management Department of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. He is currently an Associate Editor of Sport in Society; an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. His research interests include social capital and sport and education, soccer in the United States, and youth sport parents.
