The joy of sports : end zones, bases, baskets, balls, and the consecration of the American spirit
Print Book, English, ©1994
Rev. ed View all formats and editions
Madison Books : Distributed by National Book Network, Lanham, Md., ©1994
History
xxi, 375 pages ; 23 cm
9781568330266, 9781568330099, 156833026X, 156833009X
28255787
One nation under sports. Homeric deeds
The natural religion
The metaphysics of sports
The rural Anglo-American myth : baseball
The immigrant myth and the corporate myth : football
The Black myth : basketball as jazz
The seven seals. The first two seals : sacred space, sacred time
The third seal : bond of brothers
The fourth and fifth seals : rooting, agon
The sixth and seventh seals : competing, self-discovery
In sports we (should not) trust. Of women and sports
Sports are not "the game of life"
Regional religions
Jocks, hacks, flacks, and pricks
The universities and the professionals
Money changers in the temple
Some Burkean reforms