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Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life

Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life


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Despite 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. Steven J. 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 nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind the sports celebrity as he exists on a daily basis. Individual chapters cover topics such 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 individual lives. 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, individual lives provide a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to audiences and athletes across America.

Table of Contents:
PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: The Athlete's Family and Youth  Roots  Opening Rounds  The Influence of Parents  Coaches and Father Figures  Looking BackwardChapter 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 WorldChapter Three: Public Life, Private Space  Introduction  Coping with CelebrityChapter Four: 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 ManChapter Five: Sex and Sexuality  Male Enclave  Cheerleaders, Temptresses, and Centerfolds: Marginalizing Women  Home and Away  Sexual Athletes  The Evolving Status of Gay AthletesChapter Six: Team Colors: Sport and Race  A Century of ChangeChapter Seven: The Athlete and His Body  The Toll of Training  Better Living through Chemistry  Getting Hurt  The Three R's of Injuries: Repair, Rehab, and Recovery  No Pain, No GainChapter Eight: Retiring from Sport  One Game at a Time  "One-More-Year" Syndrome  Transition and Adjustment  The Ex-athlete in Search of Identity  Representative RetirementsChapter Nine: ConclusionsNotes Index

About the Author :
Steven J. Overman, a retired academic, has published extensively about sports and has contributed columns and op-ed pieces for newspapers. He is the author of The Influence of the Protestant Ethic on Sport and Recreation.

Review :
"Overman (a journalist) has performed a kind of a meta-analysis of a large number of biographies and autobiographies of male, predominantly U.S., athletes. Using the athletes' and their biographers' descriptions of the lives of male athletes, he describes the common themes and bonds these athletes share. He examines topics like early family life and how many athletes view sport as both a sanctuary and a place that allows them to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. He describes their daily activities, their struggles to maintain their health, and their response to retirement."—Choice "A comprehensive and well researched collection."—Mary Jane Philpy, Journal of American Culture


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803232877
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
  • ISBN-10: 080323287X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 152 mm


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