Lecture 4.2: Baseball
KIN 249: Sport and Modern Society
Welcome to Lecture 4.2. Today's topic: baseball. Material from today's lecture is partially from Michael Mandelbaum's The Meaning of Sport, Chapter 2. We will not be able to cover the entire chapter today in this lecture; instead, I will go over some of the highlights and leave it to you to study the particulars. There will also be a study guide included in this week's lesson so that you can catch up on some of the trivia that I think is important from Mandelbaum's history of each sport. In addition, we will take a look at the role of baseball in American patriotism after the events of September 11, 2001.