KIN 249: Lecture 4.2
Table of Contents
- Lecture 4.2: Baseball
- Objectives
- Mandelbaum's Three Questions
- Thomas Edison's Film (1898)
- The Traditional Game
- Is Baseball a Modern Sport?
- Is Baseball a Modern Sport?, cont.
- So What is Baseball?
- Sports Illustrated
- In the wake of 9/11
- "A Break in the Action"
- SI Flashback cont.
- Sports Return
- Mike Piazza on post-9/11 play
- Wrap-up
- Sources
Text and Images from Slide
"A Break in the Action"
In the days following 9/11, "continuing our games didn't seem to qualify as a statement of any kind. That was a surprise in itself, how inadequate our religion of sports was in this crisis . . .
Article available @ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1023749/index.htm
Lecture Notes
In the Sports Illustrated issue I just mentioned, an article titled "A Break in the Action" made some very interesting connections between sports, religion, and nation. Richard Hoffer explained that in the days following 9/11, "continuing our games didn't seem to qualify as a statement of any kind. That was a surprise in itself, how inadequate our religion of sports was in this crisis . . .