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- catalog contributor b978347.
- catalog contributor b978348.
- catalog created "c1977.".
- catalog date "1977".
- catalog date "c1977.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1977.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 291-296.".
- catalog description "Contending myths : the athlete in literature. A baseball experiment / Mark Twain -- Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso -- Jamesie / J.F. Powers -- At the ball game / William Carlos Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- Say good-bye to Big Daddy / Randall Jarrell -- from University days / James Thurber -- Superman ; Ace in the hole / John Updike -- The jump shooter / Dennis Trudell -- from The Aeneid. The boxing match / Virgil -- Crowd pleaser / Budd Schulberg -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- The capital of the world / Ernest Hemingway -- A caddy's diary / Ring Lardner -- A mighty runner (variation of a Greek theme) / E.A. Robinson -- Runner / W.H. Auden.".
- catalog description "First person singular : the athlete speaks. Open letter to a young Negro / Jesse Owens and Paul G. Neimark -- Testament of a samurai / Yukio Mishima -- Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad / H.L. Mencken -- Mind over water / Diana Nyad -- from Instant replay / Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap -- First practice / Gary Gildner -- My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney -- Running as a spiritual experience / Mike Spino.".
- catalog description "Post-game rumbles : essays on history and philosophy. from The republic / Plato -- The ancient ways / Edith Hamilton -- from Homo Ludens. The play-element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- from A study of history / Arnold Toynbee -- from History of the United States during the Jefferson and Madison administrations / Henry Adams -- from The theory of the leisure class. Survivals of prowess / Thorstein Veblen -- A mad fight song for William S. Carpenter, 1966 / James Wright -- from The theory of the leisure class. Belief in luck / Thorstein Veblen -- The old horse player / Damon Runyon -- Sport and the 'bitch-goddess' / Lewis Mumford -- Ripper Collins' legacy / Don Johnson -- from Understanding media. Games : the extensions of man / Marshall McLuhan -- from Sport : a philosophic inquiry. The urge to win / Paul Weiss -- To Nikê / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Sport as a human absurdity / Howard S. Slusher.".
- catalog description "Sideline boos and cheers : social and cultural criticism. Wisdom over strength / Xenophanes -- from Satire VI. Female athletes / Juvenal -- Cheerleader / Jim Wayne Miller -- from The book of the courtier / Baldassare Castiglione -- Value of an athletic training / Theodore Roosevelt -- Athletics : "--unquenchably the same"? / Byron R. White -- Now I went down to the ringside and little Henry Armstrong was there / Kenneth Patchen -- The death of Benny Paret / Norman Mailer -- An innocent at ringside / William Faulkner -- "Perfect day--a day of prowess" / Robert Frost -- Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore -- Some questions on sports / Marianne Moore and George Plimpton -- Prize fighters and authors / Sherwood Anderson -- from Autobiography with letters. Gene Tunney / William Lyon Phelps -- The myth of the racially superior athlete / Harry Edwards -- On Hurricane Jackson / Alan Dugan -- The Chinese boxes of Muhammad Ali / Budd Schulberg -- 400-meter freestyle / Maxine W. Kumin -- Symbolic forms of movement : the feminine image in sports / Eleanor Metheny -- The stadium / William Heyen -- Sport and society : USSR vs. U.S. / Henry W. Morton -- The importance of participation / John F. Kennedy.".
- catalog description "from Olympia 8 / Pindar -- Autolycus / Euripides.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 304 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sporting spirit.".
- catalog identifier "0155833510".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sporting spirit.".
- catalog issued "1977".
- catalog issued "c1977.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,".
- catalog relation "Sporting spirit.".
- catalog subject "PN6071.S62 S67".
- catalog subject "Sports Literary collections.".
- catalog subject "Sports.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Contending myths : the athlete in literature. A baseball experiment / Mark Twain -- Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso -- Jamesie / J.F. Powers -- At the ball game / William Carlos Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- Say good-bye to Big Daddy / Randall Jarrell -- from University days / James Thurber -- Superman ; Ace in the hole / John Updike -- The jump shooter / Dennis Trudell -- from The Aeneid. The boxing match / Virgil -- Crowd pleaser / Budd Schulberg -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- The capital of the world / Ernest Hemingway -- A caddy's diary / Ring Lardner -- A mighty runner (variation of a Greek theme) / E.A. Robinson -- Runner / W.H. Auden.".
- catalog tableOfContents "First person singular : the athlete speaks. Open letter to a young Negro / Jesse Owens and Paul G. Neimark -- Testament of a samurai / Yukio Mishima -- Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad / H.L. Mencken -- Mind over water / Diana Nyad -- from Instant replay / Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap -- First practice / Gary Gildner -- My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney -- Running as a spiritual experience / Mike Spino.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Post-game rumbles : essays on history and philosophy. from The republic / Plato -- The ancient ways / Edith Hamilton -- from Homo Ludens. The play-element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- from A study of history / Arnold Toynbee -- from History of the United States during the Jefferson and Madison administrations / Henry Adams -- from The theory of the leisure class. Survivals of prowess / Thorstein Veblen -- A mad fight song for William S. Carpenter, 1966 / James Wright -- from The theory of the leisure class. Belief in luck / Thorstein Veblen -- The old horse player / Damon Runyon -- Sport and the 'bitch-goddess' / Lewis Mumford -- Ripper Collins' legacy / Don Johnson -- from Understanding media. Games : the extensions of man / Marshall McLuhan -- from Sport : a philosophic inquiry. The urge to win / Paul Weiss -- To Nikê / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Sport as a human absurdity / Howard S. Slusher.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sideline boos and cheers : social and cultural criticism. Wisdom over strength / Xenophanes -- from Satire VI. Female athletes / Juvenal -- Cheerleader / Jim Wayne Miller -- from The book of the courtier / Baldassare Castiglione -- Value of an athletic training / Theodore Roosevelt -- Athletics : "--unquenchably the same"? / Byron R. White -- Now I went down to the ringside and little Henry Armstrong was there / Kenneth Patchen -- The death of Benny Paret / Norman Mailer -- An innocent at ringside / William Faulkner -- "Perfect day--a day of prowess" / Robert Frost -- Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore -- Some questions on sports / Marianne Moore and George Plimpton -- Prize fighters and authors / Sherwood Anderson -- from Autobiography with letters. Gene Tunney / William Lyon Phelps -- The myth of the racially superior athlete / Harry Edwards -- On Hurricane Jackson / Alan Dugan -- The Chinese boxes of Muhammad Ali / Budd Schulberg -- 400-meter freestyle / Maxine W. Kumin -- Symbolic forms of movement : the feminine image in sports / Eleanor Metheny -- The stadium / William Heyen -- Sport and society : USSR vs. U.S. / Henry W. Morton -- The importance of participation / John F. Kennedy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "from Olympia 8 / Pindar -- Autolycus / Euripides.".
- catalog title "The Sporting spirit : athletes in literature and life / edited by Robert J. Higgs and Neil D. Isaacs ; with a foreword by Heywood Hale Broun.".
- catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
- catalog type "text".