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Sports Immortals Featuring over one million mementos from the world’s greatest athletes, Sports Immortals is the lifelong vision and effort of founder Joel Platt For Joel, sports represents the best of the human spirit–every individual striving to reach their maximum potential
The sports immortals : deifying the American athlete While others (most notably Michael Oriard) have studied the heroes and villains of sports literature, this book is the first study of the very similar creation of gods and demi-gods in the arenas of real games "
Why athletes are obsessed with the idea of sporting immortality Sport markets stars like LeBron James as immortals and superheroes, appealing directly to the innate human searching for eternal life and understanding of what it is to be ‘more than human’
The Sports Immortals: Deifying the American Athlete The Sports Immortals is the first study to systematically apply the classic theories of psychology and anthropology to sport to present a model of the ways in which we create mythical figures out of actual individuals
Williams, Peter. The Sports Immortals - LA84 Foundation In order to examine how this human penchant is worked out in the world of sports, and especially in the world of baseball, Williams draws from a wide array of disciplinary backgrounds, including philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology
The Sports Immortals | Boston Public Library | BiblioCommons The Sports Immortals is the first study to systematically apply the classic theories of psychology and anthropology to sport to present a model of the ways in which we create mythical figures out of actual individuals
The Sports Immortals: Deifying the American Athlete While others (most notably Michael Oriard) have studied the heroes and villains of sports literature, this book is the first study of the very similar creation of gods and demi-gods in the arenas
The sports immortals by Williams, Peter | Open Library While others (most notably Michael Oriard) have studied the heroes and villains of sports literature, this book is the first study of the very similar creation of gods and demi-gods in the arenas of real games
The sports immortals : : deifying the American athlete "The Sports Immortals is the first serious and scholarly attempt to explain the psychology of hero-worship in sport While others (most notably Michael Oriard) have studied the heroes and villains of sports literature, this book is the first study of the very similar creation of gods and demi-gods in the arenas of real games "
Book – Sports Immortals Sports heroes live in our collective memory as flickering images, as hazily remembered ghosts Through its breathtaking collection of imagery and stories, Sports Immortals provides a new way to be inspired by the greatest athletes of all time