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Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Profiles athletes who achieved their goals under strong psychological pressure, including baseball player Hank Aaron, marathoner Kathrine Switzer, golfer Charlie Swifford, and the University of Connecticut women's basketball team.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.
Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete in a straight sporting world, examines the homoerotic...
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Publisher
Penguin/Arkana
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Michael Murphy, bestselling author of Golf in the Kingdom, explains the power of athletics to transform the body, mind, and spirit Athletes and coaches often say they feel "in the zone" while participating in sports or other endeavors, and Esalen Institute cofounder Michael Murphy carefully documents this phenomenon in one of the most comprehensive works of its kind. Murphy and coauthor Rhea A. White categorize twenty types of extraordinary athletic...
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Series
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Curtis Granderson grew up on the south side of Chicago. He loved sports and was determined to become a successful athlete. But perhaps because both of his parents were teachers, he had an even stronger desire to succeed in the classroom. He loved learning for its own sake, and from an early age, the importance of education. Now an established Major League Baseball star, Curtis has not forgotten the lessons he learned growing up. These are lessons...