Baseball and philosophy : thinking outside the batter's box / edited by Eric Bronson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bronson, Eric, 1971-

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 6.

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Social aspects--United States.

Baseball.

Sports--Philosophy.

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Baseball and Philosophy presents thirty-one talented professional thinkers who have found wisdom in and through baseball. They explore some of the game's deeper questions and expound baseball's lessons for truth, justice, American identity, and human fulfillment.--Is the intentional walk unethical?--Can superstition help you play better?--Do Cubs fans teach us about religious faith?--Does chance decide who wins the World Series?

Contents:

Title Page; Popular Culture and Philosophy; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Pre-Game Warm-up :; First Inning: - Hometown Heroes; 1 - "There's No Place Like Home!"; Bachelard's Philosophy of Home; 'Canny' Get a Hit at Last?; A Little Elbow Room, or Making Yourself at Home with 30,000+ Pals; Safe at Home; Rounding Third and Heading Home; 2 - Minnesota's "Homer Hanky Jurisprudence" : Contraction, Ethics, and the Twins; Baseball's Special Place in the Law; Ethics and Law; The Legal Obligation of the Twins; Judge Crump's Utilitarianism; The Obligation to Play Baseball

Second Inning: - You Gotta Believe!3 - Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about ...; What It's Like to Be a Cubs Fan; Why Do People Struggle with Faith?; Commitment and the Cubs; The Rationality of Religious Commitment; The Nature of Commitment; Choosing Faith?; Baseball and Religious Commitment; Who Should Be Committed?; 4 - Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice; The Nature of Sacrifice; The Ancient Virtue of Sacrifice; The Vice of Involuntary Sacrifice; The Spirit of Baseball: Hegel and the Reds; Kierkegaard Lays It Down

Third Inning: - The Umpire's New Clothes5 - There Are No Ties at First Base; I. Thoughts on the Wonder of Rules; II. There are No Ties at First Base; The Shock of Contradiction; Is the Umpire Blind?; The Ambiguous Consolations of Philosophy; 6 - Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls; Making the Calls; Are Rules All an Umpire Has to Work With?; Dworkin and the Pine Tar Controversy; The Integrity of the Game; Fourth Inning: - Fair or Foul?; 7 - Baseball, Cheating, and Tradition : Would Kant Cork His Bat?; The Meaning of Cheating; An Interlude on Kant

Cheating and TraditionKant, Aristotle, and the Cheater; 8 - There's No Lying In Baseball (Wink, Wink); Plays of Deception; Is There an Ethicist in the House?; Five Questions about Good Sportsmanship; Fifth Inning: - Baseball and America; 9 - Democracy and Dissent: Why America Needs Reggie Jackson; Long Live Both King Georges; A Philosophe in America; The Bronx Zoo; Our Big, Fat, Greek Democracy; 10 - Baseball and the Search for an American Moral Identity; Don't Show Me the Money!; Baseball's Got the Goods; America's Game; Sixth Inning: - Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?

11 - The Negro Leagues and the Contradictions of Social DarwinismSports and Race; Social Darwinism; Challenging Philosophies of Race; On the Other Side of the Racial Divide; Crossing the Color Line; 12 - We're American Too : The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance; The Birth of the Negro Leagues; Resentment, Resistance, and the Blues; Performance and the Bingo Long All-Stars; The Gift of Baseball; Seventh Inning: - The Japanese National Pastime?; 13 - The Zen of Hitting; Zen Basics; Patience; Relaxation; Self-Knowledge; Visualization; Practice; Kime (Tightening the Mind)

Mushin (No Mind)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28564-9

9786613285645

0-8126-9775-8

OCLC:

751694695