Living out of bounds the male athlete's everyday life /

From the Publisher: 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 an...

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Main Author: Overman, Steven J.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
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505 0 # |a Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Athlete's Family And Youth -- Roots -- Opening rounds -- Influences of parents -- Coaches and father figures -- Looking back -- 2: Narrow World Of Sports -- Part 1: Sport As Sanctuary -- Home away from home -- Sanctum sanctorum -- Part 2: Sport As Neverland -- From Peter Pan to Pete Rose -- Living in Neverland -- Coaching as paternalism -- Wider world -- 3: Public Life, Private Space -- Introduction -- Coping with celebrity -- 4: In The Arena's Shadow -- Gladiator's holiday -- Practice time -- On the road -- Hotel living -- Time in; time out -- Filling leisure time -- Playing cards and gambling -- Recreational drugs -- Lifestyles of the Nouveau Riche and famous -- Teammates and buddies -- Revealing the inner man -- 5: Sex And Sexuality -- Male enclave -- Cheerleaders, temptresses, and centerfolds: marginalizing women -- Home And away -- Sexual athletes -- Evolving status of gay athletes -- 6: Team Colors: Sport And Race -- Century of change -- 7: Athlete And His Body -- Toll of training -- Better living through chemistry -- Getting hurt -- Three r's of injuries: repair, rehab, and recovery -- No pain, no gain -- 8: Retiring From Sport -- One game at a time -- One-more-year syndrome -- Transition and adjustment -- Ex-athlete in search of identity -- Representative retirements -- 9: Conclusions -- Notes -- Index. 
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520 # # |a From the Publisher: 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 doing so, he reveals the person behind the sports celebrity, as he 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. The shared experiences of devoted training, of travel and hotels, and of tension within and beyond the clubhouse or gym, force use to appreciate the often-oppressive reality of the sporting life, at the same time that the individual lives provide us with a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to audiences and athletes across America. 
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