Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated cover post-9/11
Roth's ideas are echoed in this Sports Illustrated cover that appeared just after the events of September 11th, 2001, in which an American flag is draped over a seat in a sports arena. While there is certainly more to focus on in Mandelbaum's text, and I will provide a study guide for the major points, I want to spend the rest of this lecture thinking about a key idea in Mandelbaum's text: that of baseball, patriotism, and religion. Our focus will be the ways that baseball reacted to and consolidated patriotism after 9/11; my hope is that you will hear echoes of our other discussions about history, sport, and the nation.