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Living out of Bounds - The Male Athlete's Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Living out of Bounds - The Male Athlete's Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Despite some 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. 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 19th century to the
present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind the sports
celebrity, as he or she exists on a daily basis. Individual
chapters cover such topics as college athletics, the pressure of
celebrity, the difficulty of balancing sports and everyday life,
sex and sexuality, race in sports, the obsession with the body, and
the difficulties associated with retiring. In the course of the
work, a portrait emerges that transcends the individual lives
lived. The shared experiences of devoted training, of travel and
hotels, and of tension within and beyond the clubhouse or gym,
force us to appreciate the often oppressive reality of the sporting
life, at the same time that the individual lives lived also provide
us with a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to
audiences and athletes across America.
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