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The chief advantage that Guttmann has over other sports theoreticians is a willingness to employ the techniques of modern rhetoric in creating some order not out of the ideological confusion now swirling around his subject. He is a definer, a synthesizer, a causal analyst, as well as an arguer and a counter-arguer.
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[Guttmann is] our most distinguished contemporary thinker on the nature and role of sport in society.
(A. Bartlett Giamatti, late commissioner of baseball ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Four Minute Mile (1955), Roger Bannister tells of a moment in childhood when he stood "barefoot on firm dry sand by the sea." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive sports, medieval sports, modern sports, catharsis theory, quest for records, amateur rule, des sports, athletic festivals, physical contests, national game, individual sports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, East Germany, New York, West Germany, Roy Hobbs, Max Weber, Babe Ruth, Bert Buchner, Eastern Europe, Middle Ages, Sports Illustrated, Super Bowl, Western Europe, Kornelia Ender, National Football League, Supreme Court, World Series, Carl Diem, Deutsche Turnerschaft, Hans Lenk, Henry Waugh, Paul Hoch, Roger Bannister, South Africa New!
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IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Four Minute Mile (1955), Roger Bannister tells of a moment in childhood when he stood "barefoot on firm dry sand by the sea." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive sports, medieval sports, modern sports, catharsis theory, quest for records, amateur rule, des sports, athletic festivals, physical contests, national game, individual sports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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