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Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
Overman, Steve S.; Overman, Steven J.
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Description for Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
paperback. Despite enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. This title provides answers to persistent questions about what it's really like to be an athlete and discusses the filtered image of the athlete that emerges through books and other media. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; GTC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Despite enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. Living Out of Bounds provides answers to persistent questions about what it’s really like to be an athlete and discusses the filtered image of the athlete that emerges through books and other media. Steven J. Overman mines a wide array of sports biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries to construct a representative picture of the athlete’s life from the rise of American sport in the late nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind ... Read more
Despite enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. Living Out of Bounds provides answers to persistent questions about what it’s really like to be an athlete and discusses the filtered image of the athlete that emerges through books and other media. Steven J. Overman mines a wide array of sports biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries to construct a representative picture of the athlete’s life from the rise of American sport in the late nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
UNP - Bison Books United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803232877
SKU
V9780803232877
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About Overman, Steve S.; Overman, Steven J.
Steven J. Overman, a retired academic, has published extensively about sports and has contributed columns and op-ed pieces for newspapers. He is the author of The Influence of the Protestant Ethic on Sport and Recreation.
Reviews for Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life
"Overman (a journalist) has performed a kind of a meta-analysis of a large number of biographies and autobiographies of male, predominantly U.S., athletes. Using the athletes' and their biographers' descriptions of the lives of male athletes, he describes the common themes and bonds these athletes share. He examines topics like early family life and how many athletes view sport as ... Read more