The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit, Band 10Basic Books, 1976 - 357 Seiten |
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... stadium , the " enter- tainment " —the bands , singers , comedians , balloons , floats , fireworks , jets screaming overhead - pales before the impact of the contest itself , like lemonade served to la- dies while the men are drinking ...
... stadium , the " enter- tainment " —the bands , singers , comedians , balloons , floats , fireworks , jets screaming overhead - pales before the impact of the contest itself , like lemonade served to la- dies while the men are drinking ...
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... Stadium on a hot Monday night in 1975. The flag in left - center field is listless . The friendly animation of the crowd emits quiet currents of electricity . The crack of the bat is a precious sound , unlike auto horns or machinery ...
... Stadium on a hot Monday night in 1975. The flag in left - center field is listless . The friendly animation of the crowd emits quiet currents of electricity . The crack of the bat is a precious sound , unlike auto horns or machinery ...
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... stadium when no other soul is present . One feels the proximity of every seat . Even when the place is packed , so perfect is the oval that the most distant fan can hear a coach shout from the bench . The drainage slope gives the ...
... stadium when no other soul is present . One feels the proximity of every seat . Even when the place is packed , so perfect is the oval that the most distant fan can hear a coach shout from the bench . The drainage slope gives the ...
Inhalt
The Natural Religion | 18 |
SPORTSREEL The Conversion of Robert Griffin | 35 |
Baseball | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action American athletes ball base baseball basketball beauty become beginning believe better Blanda body boys called coaches contest course culture Dame death defeat defense Dodgers excellence experience face fans feel field football force four give hands heart human imagination important individual kind later League least less limits live look lose means million mind moral move nature never once one's pass passion perfect perhaps person physical play players pleasure politics possible practice professional reason religion ritual rules score seems sense side single social spirit symbolic television thing tion true turn United watch women writers York