Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies

By James W. Pipkin

Book Overview

Sometimes the crack of the bat or the roar of the crowd fails to capture the meaning of sports as athletes themselves understand it. Books about sports have ignored this dimension of the subject,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826217796
• ISBN13: 9780826217790
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5