Baseball and Philosophy Thinking Outside the Batters Box
Baseball and Philosophy Thinking Outside the Batter's Box Baseball and Philosophy is a book that brings philosophy to the center stage or the pitching mound so to speak. Baseball and Philosophy is the sixth volume in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. Other Books in the series include Volume 1 Seinfeld and Philosophy, Volume 2 The Simpson's and Philosophy, Volume 3 The Matrix and Philosophy, Volume 4 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, and Volume 5 The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy. The editor of the book is Eric Bronson, who also contributed to this book by writing one of the essays. Bronson heads the Philosophy and History Departments at Berkeley College in New York City. He co-edited the Lord of the Rings and Philosophy and contributed chapters to The Simpson's and Philosophy and Seinfeld and Philosophy. Baseball and Philosophy is comprised of 32 professors who wrote 24 essays. These professors explored philosophical questions about the who, what and why of baseball which demonstrate the game's connection to larger issues of truth, justice, American identity, and human fulf
I know that some people would be interested in reading this book if they had a project to do in a philosophy course. However I would recommend this book to people who like philosophy and baseball. Take baseball for example: you have to be very strategic while playing the game of baseball. This book while it was interesting in some ways it wouldn't be a book that I would take off of the bookshelf and read myself. In this essay Heaphy argues "that masculinity and femininity are culturally defined. If someone doesn't like baseball or philosophy then I wouldn't recommend this book. Another topic which is highly controversial as well as highly publicized is is it ethical to employ deception in sports. I would also recommend this book to people who like baseball, and want to get a philosophical view from baseball. Because most of the men that would usually play baseball were off fighting in the war they decided to make a women's baseball league called the "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League" (AAGPBL for short). During the Second Worlds War women started playing baseball because the owners and managers of all of the baseball teams were afraid that baseball would no longer be the great American past time if they didn't do something fast. The main theme of this book, however, is how baseball and relates to different branches of philosophy. My favorite part of the book was the second essay in chapter 8 called Women Playing Hardball by Leslie Heaphy. This topic alone covers the controversy of Pete Rose being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as well as the use of steroids in the game of baseball.
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