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-- A. Bartlett Giamatti, late Commissioner of Baseball

-- Kirkus Reviews

Originally published in 1978, this book was one of the first to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.

In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining, comprehensive and succint.Guttmann first exa...

Sports in America, particularly big-time collegiate and professional sports, have never been more popular. In A Whole New Ball Game, Allen Guttmann examines the American fascination with sport and what that fascination reveals about American culture.

A richly illustrated exploration of the depiction of sports in American art since the eighteenth century

To understand Brundage is to realize why the Olympic Games may well go on long after the 'religion of Olympism' has become a mockery, " writes Guttmann in the over-reaching, hyped-up preface here. But, if this biography/history hybrid fails in its sporadic attempts at psycho-social interpretation, it does provide generous chunks of Olympics background - while giving equal emphasis to the pros and cons of Brundage's Olympics philosophy. Son of ...

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From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, every sport has been shaped by--and in turn has helped shape--the culture of which it is part, Yet as Allen Guttmann shows in this far-ranging study, for all their differences sports have followed a similar historical trajectory from traditional to modern forms. In Sports: The First Five Millennia, Guttmann traces this evolution across continents, c...

This comprehensive survey of Japanese sports is attentive to the complex and fascinating interaction of traditional and modern elements. It also registers scepticism about the use of the samurai tradition to explain Japan's success in sports.

Discusses the intended and actual meaning of the modern Olympic games, from 1896 to 2000.