I Wore Babe Ruth s Hat Field Notes from a Life in Sports 1st Edition by David Zang ISBN 9780252097423 0252097424

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ISBN 10: 0252097424

ISBN 13: 9780252097423

Author: David W. Zang

David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner (not a jogger). In short, he soldiered through the life of an ordinary athlete.
 
Whether pondering his long-unbuilt replica of Connie Mack Stadium or his eye-opening turn as the Baltimore Ravens’ mascot, Zang offers tales at turns poignant and hilarious as he engages with the passions that shaped his life. Yet his meditations also probe the tragedy of a modern athletic culture that substitutes hyped spectatorship for participation. As he laments, American society’s increasing scorn for taking part in play robs adults of the life-affirming virtues of games that challenge us to accomplish the impossible for the most transcendent of reasons: to see if it can be done.
 
From teammates named Lop to tracing Joe Paterno’s long shadow over Happy Valley, I Wore Babe Ruth’s Hat reports from the everyman’s Elysium where games and life intersect

Table of contents: 

1 Acknowledgments
2 Introduction
3 LEARNING FUNDAMENTALS
4 Chip Hilton’s Sports Cult
5 The Half-Court Snuff of Donnie Rose
6 Dennis Kubeck Ruins It for Everyone
7 DARK EDGES
8 Failing to Meet Jackie Robinson
9 Beware!! Dangerous Jocks Ahead
10 I Wore Babe Ruth’s Hat (and Poe’s Head)
11 Look Away, Look Away
12 A Long Run toward Mediocrity
13 WISHFUL THINKING
14 A Million Answers Short of Heaven
15 Impossible Dreams
16 Why Cal Ripken Touched Us
17 To an Athlete Dying
18 Notes
19 Bibliography

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