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Living out of Bounds The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
Steven J. Overman
Book Code: C34668
ISBN: 0-313-34668-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34668-2
256 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2008
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 11/30/2008)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Despite some enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. Living out of Bounds provides answers to persistent questions about what it's really like to be an athlete and discusses the filtered image of the athlete that emerges through books and other media. Overman mines a wide array of sports biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries to construct a representative picture of the athlete's life from the rise of American sport in the late 19th century to the present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind the sports celebrity, as he or she exists on a daily basis. Individual chapters cover such topics as college athletics, the pressure of celebrity, the difficulty of balancing sports and everyday life, sex and sexuality, race in sports, the obsession with the body, and the difficulties associated with retiring. In the course of the work, a portrait emerges that transcends the individual lives lived. The shared experiences of devoted training, of travel and hotels, and of tension within and beyond the clubhouse or gym, force us to appreciate the often oppressive reality of the sporting life, at the same time that the individual lives lived also provide us with a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to audiences and athletes across America.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: The Athletes Family and Youth Roots
  • Opening Rounds
  • The Influence of Parents
  • Coaches and Father Figures
  • Looking Backward
  • Chapter Two: The Narrow World of Sports
  • Part I: Sport as Sanctuary
  • Home Away from Home
  • Sanctum Sanctorum
  • Part II: Sport As Neverland
  • From Peter Pan to Pete Rose
  • Living in Neverland
  • Coaching as Paternalism
  • The Wider World
  • Chapter Three: Public Life, Private Space
  • Introduction
  • Coping with Celebrity
  • Chapter Four: In the Arenas Shadow
  • Gladiators Holiday
  • Practice Time
  • On the Road
  • Hotel Living
  • Time in; Time out
  • Filling Leisure Time
  • Playing Cards and Gambling
  • Recreational Drugs
  • Life Styles of the Nouveau Riche and Famous
  • Teammates and Buddies
  • Revealing the Inner Man
  • Chapter Five: Sex and Sexuality
  • Male Enclave
  • Cheerleaders, Temptresses, and Centerfolds: Marginalizing Women
  • Home and Away
  • Sexual Athletes
  • The Evolving Status of Gay Athletes
  • Chapter Six: Team Colors: Sport and Race
  • A Century of Change
  • Chapter Seven: The Athlete and His Body
  • The Toll of Training
  • Better Living through Chemistry
  • Getting Hurt
  • The Three Rs of Injuries: Repair, Rehab, and Recovery
  • No Pain, No Gain
  • Chapter Eight: Retiring from Sport
  • One Game at a Time
  • One-more-year Syndrome
  • Transition and Adjustment
  • The Ex-athlete in Search of Identity
  • Representative Retirements
  • Endnotes
LC Card Number: 2008028210
LCC Class: GV706
Dewey Class: 796
PDF Catalogs:
Pop Culture Spring 2008.pdf
Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
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