In The Meaning of Sports , Michael Mandelbaum, a Sports fan who is also one of the nation\'s preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America\'s century-long love affair with team sports.
In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how Sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball became national institutions and how they reached their present forms; and covers the evolution o.
In The Meaning of Sports , Michael Mandelbaum, a Sports fan who is also one of the nation\'s preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America\'s century-long love affair with team sports