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In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nations preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines Americas century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball became national institutions and how they reached their present forms; and covers the evolution of rules, the rise and fall of the most successful teams, and the historical significance of the most famous and influential figures such as Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, and Michael Jordan.
Whether he is writing about baseball as the agrarian game, football as similar to warfare, basketball as the embodiment of post-industrial society, or the moral havoc created by baseballs designated hitter rule, Mandelbaum applies the full force of his learning and wit to subjects about which so many Americans care passionately: the games they played in their youth and continue to follow as adults. By offering a fresh and unconventional perspective on these games, The Meaning of Sports makes for fascinating and rewarding reading both for fans and newcomers.
Whether he is writing about baseball as the agrarian game, football as similar to warfare, basketball as the embodiment of post-industrial society, or the moral havoc created by baseballs designated hitter rule, Mandelbaum applies the full force of his learning and wit to subjects about which so many Americans care passionately: the games they played in their youth and continue to follow as adults. By offering a fresh and unconventional perspective on these games, The Meaning of Sports makes for fascinating and rewarding reading both for fans and newcomers.
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PRAISE FORThe Meaning of Sports
The Meaning of Sports is not only fascinating but enormously entertaining. A knowledgeable sports fan will learn more than a thing or two. Im one and I did. The non-sports fan will discover just why sports are woven so tightly into the fabric of American life.Fred Barnes, The Wall Street Journal
[Mr. Mandelbaum writes] with clarity, in prose mercifully free of academic jargon. He explains why Americans are usually absorbed by all three sports, almost always rooting for the home teams. He examines the crucial power of our nostalgias, the ways sports help erase ethnic and religious differences, the corruptions of money and the use of performance-enhancing drugs, which form a hidden script in our scriptless dramas. In its way, Mr. Mandelbaums book can help explain America to Americans, but it is also a subtle extension of his own expertise in foreign policy. It can help explain the United States to the rest of the oftenbaffled world.Pete Hamill, The New York Times
Why do we care about spoiled millionaires who happen to be good at throwing, kicking, hitting or catching balls? It is the underlying question in this fascinating, anthropological look at the three dominant American team sports: baseball, basketball and football. Known largely for his foreign-policy expertise, Mandelbaum argues that these games are, in fact, extensions of 20th-century America. Baseball conveys a nostalgic relationship to a lost agrarian past; football embodies the post World War II admiration for a force battling for turf, and basketball is the techera competition in which players can use quick thinking and agility to defeat bigger opponents. These games are usan idea compelling to sports lovers and haters alike.Newsweek International
The most fun I had reading a book was with Michael Mandelbaums The Meaning of Sports, which gave me a chance to understand something mysterious but all around me.Daniel Pipes, The New York Sun
Colloquial and readable... when Mandelbaum is explaining how the games men play reflect the society we live in, he is at his best.Washington Post Book World
A great book for educated non-fans and recent initiates to American sports to kick off with.The Economist
Sports fans will find this fascinating; others (you know who you are) will find a deeper appreciation and understanding of the dynamics of sports.Dallas Morning News
Insightful explanations for why we care so much about sweaty men (and women) playing games.Sportsillustrated.com
A sports fan who also happens to be a pre-eminent foreign policy thinker, Mandelbaum goes deep into the American psyche.Atlanta Journal Constitution
This is a rich and immensely subtle work of historical sociology.The Telegraph (Calcutta)
A... readable study of why Americans watch so much baseball, football, and basketball.USA Today
Recommended reading: The Meaning of Sports... has confirmed what Southerners have known innately since the single-wing: Sports is a religious experience. Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Whether riffing on baseballs nostalgic evocations, footballs warrior ethos, or the way basketballwith its always unfolding innovations and network playmirrors post industrial worklife, Mandelbaum reveals the subconscious reasons were drawn, moth-to-lightbulb-style, to stadiums and TV sets.
Mens Journal
[A]n intellectual tour de force... It is a dizzying but worthwhile experience to read a book so information-rich. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
So thats why we sports fans are so devoted. Thank you, Michael Mandelbaum, for your dazzling and witty insight into this addictive American wonderfor giving new meaning to the games we play. I will watch my next jump shot with renewed awe.Lynn Sherr, ABC News 20/20, author of America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nations Favorite Song
A marvelous piece of work. This will be of interest to the entire spectrum of our society. A true history of sport.Bill Walsh, former coach of the San Francisco 49ers, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Michael Mandelbaum has turned his fine eye and keen intellect toward sportsand shown us why they matter.Michael Shapiro, author of The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together
This is a great account of how and why sports have become so popular and important in America.Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, and XXXIX Champions
ALSO BY MICHAEL MANDELBAUM
The Nuclear Question: The United States and
Nuclear Weapons, 19461976 (1979)
Nuclear Weapons, 19461976 (1979)
The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before
and After Hiroshima (1981)
and After Hiroshima (1981)
The Nuclear Future (1983)
Reagan and Gorbachev (Co-author, 1987)
The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1988)
The Global Rivals (Co-author, 1988)
The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996)
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (2002)
To Thomas L. Friedman, James Klurfeld,
Peter C. Kostant, Eugene A. Matthews, Alan Platt, and
Mark L. Wolfsports fans;
and to Anne Mandelbaum, wife of a sports fan.
Peter C. Kostant, Eugene A. Matthews, Alan Platt, and
Mark L. Wolfsports fans;
and to Anne Mandelbaum, wife of a sports fan.
I have to admit it: I feel better when the Raiders win.
JONATHAN EDWARD MANDELBAUM, M.D., 19491976
JONATHAN EDWARD MANDELBAUM, M.D., 19491976
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MY GREATEST DEBT is to my wife, Anne Mandelbaum, for enthusiastically encouraging me to write a book about a subject of lifelong interest, and for applying her matchless editorial skills to what I wrote, thereby making this book clearer and more graceful than it would otherwise have been.
I am indebted as well to my agent, the peerless Morton L. Janklow, for placing the book, and to my publisher, Peter Osnos, and his superb team at PublicAffairs, Robert Kimzey, Gene Taft, Clive Priddle, and especially David Patterson, for bringing it expertly to publication.
David C. Speedie III gave me the benefit of his considerable knowledge of both American and British sports.
David Ortiz, editorial coordinator of ESPN The Magazine, and Sheryl Spain, associate director of communications of Sports Illustrated, were kind enough to help track down references to articles in those two estimable publications.
After completing this book I discovered that several of the concepts developed in The Meaning of Sports have been applied by professor Robert Keidel to the world of business and management, notably in his 1985 book Game Plans: Sports Strategies for Success.
The Meaning of Sports reflects the influence on me of two social scientists. From one of them, my late father, David G. Mandelbaum, a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, I absorbed an interest in the customs and rituals of different cultures, including my own. The other, David Riesman, a professor of sociology at Harvard University, taught a wonderful course for undergraduates on Character and Social Structure in America in which I served as a teaching assistant. That course, and many conversations and exchanges of correspondence with him, introduced me to the study of American society and culture. David Riesman died before this book was completed, so I cannot know what he would have thought of it; but I am certain that he would have been glad that I have written it.
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