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Whole New Ball Game
Allen Guttmann
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Description for Whole New Ball Game
Paperback. Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Sports in America, particularly big-time collegiate and professional sports, have never been more popular. Modern sports events bring us breathtaking demonstrations of grace and power and provide the focal point for the leisure time of hundreds of thousands of Americans. But the world of sports is also increasingly a scene of moral corruption and physical abuse. In A Whole New Ball Game , Allen Guttmann examines the American fascination with sport and what that fascination reveals about our culture. Like the transformation of American society in the twentieth century, the modernization of American sports has seemed inevitable and ubiquitous. As ... Read more
Sports in America, particularly big-time collegiate and professional sports, have never been more popular. Modern sports events bring us breathtaking demonstrations of grace and power and provide the focal point for the leisure time of hundreds of thousands of Americans. But the world of sports is also increasingly a scene of moral corruption and physical abuse. In A Whole New Ball Game , Allen Guttmann examines the American fascination with sport and what that fascination reveals about our culture. Like the transformation of American society in the twentieth century, the modernization of American sports has seemed inevitable and ubiquitous. As ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807842201
SKU
V9780807842201
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About Allen Guttmann
Allan Guttmann is author of From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports, Sports Spectators, and The Games Must Go On: Avery Brundage and the Olympic Movement.
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