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A NOTE FROM MICHAEL MANDELBAUMThis book has its origins in a brief exchange with my wife. One Monday night I was watching a football game on television. She entered the room and stopped to look at the screen. Puzzled by something she saw she asked me: "Didn't they just show that?" "Yes they did," I responded. "They always show the play when it happens and then they show it again. It's called instant replay." She thought for a moment and then asked, "Isn't once enough?" It was, I thought, a good question. Why, for so many people, isn't once enough? Why do tens of millions of my fellow Americans and I spend so much of our time watching so many games? Baseball, football, and basketball play a major role in American life. Just what is that role and how did these three sports come to fill it? And what is distinctive about each of the three? I have written The Meaning of Sports to answer these questions, for myself and other passionate sports fans but also for people who are, like my wife, curious enough to stop and ask a fan what it is that they're watching, and why. |
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1-58648-252-7 Pub date: 05/05/04 Price: $26.00/40.00 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 320 pages Carton Quantity: 28 Baseball, Popular Culture, Sports Selling Territory: W Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs Translation, Audio & Performance Rights: Janklow & Nesbit
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