Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box

✍ Scribed by Irwin, William;Bronson, Eric;Littlefield, Bill

• Publisher: Open Court
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Series: Popular culture and philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Pre-Game Warm-up: Who's on First?; First Inning: Hometown Heroes; 1 "There's No Place Like Home!"; 2 Minnesota's "Homer Hanky Jurisprudence": Contraction, Ethics, and the Twins; Second Inning: You Gotta Believe!; 3 Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of Faith; 4 Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice; Third Inning: The Umpire's NewClothes; 5 There Are No Ties at First Base; 6 Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls; Fourth Inning: Fair or Foul?;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?

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Pre-Game Warm-up: Who's on First?
First Inning: Hometown Heroes
1 "There's No Place Like Home!"
2 Minnesota's "Homer Hanky Jurisprudence": Contraction, Ethics, and the Twins
Second Inning: You Gotta Believe!
3 Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of Faith
4 Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice
Third Inning: The Umpire's NewClothes
5 There Are No Ties at First Base
6 Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls
Fourth Inning: Fair or Foul? 7 Baseball, Cheating, and Tradition: Would Kant Cork His Bat?8 There's No Lying In Baseball (Wink, Wink)
Fifth Inning: Baseball and America
9 Democracy and Dissent: Why America Needs Reggie Jackson
10 Baseball and the Search for an American Moral Identity
Sixth Inning: Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?
11 The Negro Leagues and the Contradictions of Social Darwinism
12 We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance
Seventh Inning: The Japanese National Pastime?
13 The Zen of Hitting
14 Japanese Baseball and Its Warrior Ways? Eighth Inning: Behind in the Count15 The Numbers Game: What Fans Should Know about the Stats They Love
16 Women Playing Hardball
Ninth Inning: Under Pressure
17 Walking Barry Bonds: The Ethics of the Intentional Walk
18 Socrates at the Ballpark
Post-Game Press Conference
19 Baseball and Ethics
19a Should Pete Rose Be in the Hall of Fame? YES
19b Should Pete Rose Be in the Hall of Fame? NO
20 Baseball and Political Philosophy
20a Does A-Rod Deserve So Much Money? YES
20b Does A-Rod Deserve So Much Money? NO
21 Baseball and Metaphysics
21a Does Superstition Help Performance? YES. 21b Does Superstition Help Performance? NO22 Baseball and Legal Philosophy
22a Should Steroids Be Banned? YES
22b Should Steroids Be Banned? NO
23 Baseball and Aesthetics
23a What's the Best Baseball Movie? The Natural (1984)
23b What's the Best Baseball Movie? It Happens Every Spring (1949)
24 Baseball and Education
24a Were Baseball Players Better Role Models Then or Now? THEN
24b Were Baseball Players Better Role Models Then or Now? NOW
The Team
Index.

✦ Subjects

Baseball--Social aspects;Baseball--Social aspects--United States;Sport & Recreation;Sports--Philosophy;;Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States;Baseball -- Social aspects;Sports -- Philosophy