I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat: Field Notes from a Life in Sports (Sport and Society) - Tapa dura

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Zang, David W.

 
9780252039379: I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat: Field Notes from a Life in Sports (Sport and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0252039378 ISBN 13: 9780252039379
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Sinopsis

David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner (not a jogger). In short, he soldiered through the life of an ordinary athlete.
 
Whether pondering his long-unbuilt replica of Connie Mack Stadium or his eye-opening turn as the Baltimore Ravens' mascot, Zang offers tales at turns poignant and hilarious as he engages with the passions that shaped his life. Yet his meditations also probe the tragedy of a modern athletic culture that substitutes hyped spectatorship for participation. As he laments, American society's increasing scorn for taking part in play robs adults of the life-affirming virtues of games that challenge us to accomplish the impossible for the most transcendent of reasons: to see if it can be done.
 
From teammates named Lop to tracing Joe Paterno's long shadow over Happy Valley, I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat reports from the everyman's Elysium where games and life intersect.

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Acerca del autor

David W. Zang is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University. He is the author of Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer and Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252039378
ISBN 13 
9780252039379
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
232
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9780252080883: I Wore Babe Ruth's Hat: Field Notes from a Life in Sports (Sport and Society)

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ISBN 10:  0252080882 ISBN 13:  9780252080883
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015
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