Christopher B. Doob
The Anatomy of Competition in Sports
The Struggle for Success in Major US Professional Leagues
Christopher B. Doob
The Anatomy of Competition in Sports
The Struggle for Success in Major US Professional Leagues
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This book examines different professional sports leagues in the United States and the role of competition within that league-in the history of the league, for children learning and competing in the sport, for individuals competing to join a pro league, and the pros themselves meeting the various challenges of their career.
This book examines different professional sports leagues in the United States and the role of competition within that league-in the history of the league, for children learning and competing in the sport, for individuals competing to join a pro league, and the pros themselves meeting the various challenges of their career.
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- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 314
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 664g
- ISBN-13: 9781442250604
- ISBN-10: 1442250607
- Artikelnr.: 42284976
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 314
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 664g
- ISBN-13: 9781442250604
- ISBN-10: 1442250607
- Artikelnr.: 42284976
Christopher B. Doob is professor emeritus of sociology at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the author of a number of books, including Racism: An American Cauldron (1998), Sociology: An Introduction (1999), and Social Inequality and the Social Stratification in US Society (2013).
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction - Pro Athletes' Uncommon Careers The
Advent of Pro Team Sports' Affluent Age Players' Challenges Pro Players'
Uncommon Experiences Chapter 1 - MLB: Separation Anxiety From The Beginning
The Campaign for MLB Diversity The Journey and Its Challenges The Draft
Joining a Minor-League Team Moving Up Pitfalls Shooting Down the
Competition Players Caught in the Media Circus Outside the Lagoon Players'
Performance Hitting Pitching Fielding Closing the Career Chapter 2 - NFL: A
Collision Cocktail Spiked With Size, Strength, Speed, And Skill The
Organization of a Highly Organized Game African Americans' Integration of
the NFL Factors Contributing To Young Footballers' Development Zeroing In
On Going Pro Preparing For the Upcoming Campaign Experiencing Competition
in the NFL The Day of the Game Rugged Realities of NFL Games Casualties of
a Collision Sport Destructive Psychological Impacts of A Pressure-Ridden
Game Positions and Personalities Leaving the Game Chapter 3 - NBA & WNBA:
Trees In Blossom The Development and Growth of a Pair of Modern
Leagues From All White to a Decisive Black Majority The Background for
Making the NBA College as One and Done or Close To It The Draft and
Surrounding Events Too Many Candidates for Too Few Slots Playing In the NBA
Key Elements of the Game Scoring and Its Contribution to the Team The
Discreet Decline of Rebounding The Impact of Assists Defenses: Their
Understated Value The WNBA and Its Achievements The Development of WNBA
Players The End of the Line Chapter 4 - NHL: Intricacy on Ice The Birth of
the National Hockey League Mobilizing Boys toward the NHL College or the
Pros? On The NHL's Doorstep Important Challenges on Joining a NHL Team
Effectiveness in Training Camp Unrelenting Performance Demands Team
Expectations Need To Satisfy Team Trust On-Going Controversy about Fighting
in the NHL Deploying the Combatants The Front Line The Defense A Final
Comment Chapter 5 - MLS: New Kid on the Global Pitch The Down-And-Slowly-Up
History of American Pro Soccer The Measured Development of Elite American
Soccer Players A Look at MLS Academies' Foreign Competition The Combine and
Draft MLS and Its Stringent Agenda The MLS Preseason and Its Challenges
Various Difficult Issues: Salaries, Foreign Players, Injuries MLS and
Ranging Incomes The League's Imports Performance Interrupters: Injury and
Illicit Drugs The Impact of Concussions Additional Injuries and Responses
To Them PED Use in MLS: Making Too Much Out Of It? The Divided Pitch
Forwards, Especially Strikers Men in the Middle The Deep Defenders The Long
Road Ahead Chapter 6 - Atypical Pros and Their Competitive Reality Disabled
Athletes in Pro Sports Modern White Players in the NBA Gays and Lesbians in
the Pros The Lonely Life of NFL Kickers Two-Sport Pros A Final Commentary
Chapter 7 - Life after Game Days: A Wrenching Experience? Wrapping Up The
Brutal Aftermath Work after Play Former Point Guards and Catchers and Other
Would-Be Coaches and Managers Sports Jocks on the Tube and Elsewhere Notes
Selected Bibliography Index About The Author
Advent of Pro Team Sports' Affluent Age Players' Challenges Pro Players'
Uncommon Experiences Chapter 1 - MLB: Separation Anxiety From The Beginning
The Campaign for MLB Diversity The Journey and Its Challenges The Draft
Joining a Minor-League Team Moving Up Pitfalls Shooting Down the
Competition Players Caught in the Media Circus Outside the Lagoon Players'
Performance Hitting Pitching Fielding Closing the Career Chapter 2 - NFL: A
Collision Cocktail Spiked With Size, Strength, Speed, And Skill The
Organization of a Highly Organized Game African Americans' Integration of
the NFL Factors Contributing To Young Footballers' Development Zeroing In
On Going Pro Preparing For the Upcoming Campaign Experiencing Competition
in the NFL The Day of the Game Rugged Realities of NFL Games Casualties of
a Collision Sport Destructive Psychological Impacts of A Pressure-Ridden
Game Positions and Personalities Leaving the Game Chapter 3 - NBA & WNBA:
Trees In Blossom The Development and Growth of a Pair of Modern
Leagues From All White to a Decisive Black Majority The Background for
Making the NBA College as One and Done or Close To It The Draft and
Surrounding Events Too Many Candidates for Too Few Slots Playing In the NBA
Key Elements of the Game Scoring and Its Contribution to the Team The
Discreet Decline of Rebounding The Impact of Assists Defenses: Their
Understated Value The WNBA and Its Achievements The Development of WNBA
Players The End of the Line Chapter 4 - NHL: Intricacy on Ice The Birth of
the National Hockey League Mobilizing Boys toward the NHL College or the
Pros? On The NHL's Doorstep Important Challenges on Joining a NHL Team
Effectiveness in Training Camp Unrelenting Performance Demands Team
Expectations Need To Satisfy Team Trust On-Going Controversy about Fighting
in the NHL Deploying the Combatants The Front Line The Defense A Final
Comment Chapter 5 - MLS: New Kid on the Global Pitch The Down-And-Slowly-Up
History of American Pro Soccer The Measured Development of Elite American
Soccer Players A Look at MLS Academies' Foreign Competition The Combine and
Draft MLS and Its Stringent Agenda The MLS Preseason and Its Challenges
Various Difficult Issues: Salaries, Foreign Players, Injuries MLS and
Ranging Incomes The League's Imports Performance Interrupters: Injury and
Illicit Drugs The Impact of Concussions Additional Injuries and Responses
To Them PED Use in MLS: Making Too Much Out Of It? The Divided Pitch
Forwards, Especially Strikers Men in the Middle The Deep Defenders The Long
Road Ahead Chapter 6 - Atypical Pros and Their Competitive Reality Disabled
Athletes in Pro Sports Modern White Players in the NBA Gays and Lesbians in
the Pros The Lonely Life of NFL Kickers Two-Sport Pros A Final Commentary
Chapter 7 - Life after Game Days: A Wrenching Experience? Wrapping Up The
Brutal Aftermath Work after Play Former Point Guards and Catchers and Other
Would-Be Coaches and Managers Sports Jocks on the Tube and Elsewhere Notes
Selected Bibliography Index About The Author
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction - Pro Athletes' Uncommon Careers The
Advent of Pro Team Sports' Affluent Age Players' Challenges Pro Players'
Uncommon Experiences Chapter 1 - MLB: Separation Anxiety From The Beginning
The Campaign for MLB Diversity The Journey and Its Challenges The Draft
Joining a Minor-League Team Moving Up Pitfalls Shooting Down the
Competition Players Caught in the Media Circus Outside the Lagoon Players'
Performance Hitting Pitching Fielding Closing the Career Chapter 2 - NFL: A
Collision Cocktail Spiked With Size, Strength, Speed, And Skill The
Organization of a Highly Organized Game African Americans' Integration of
the NFL Factors Contributing To Young Footballers' Development Zeroing In
On Going Pro Preparing For the Upcoming Campaign Experiencing Competition
in the NFL The Day of the Game Rugged Realities of NFL Games Casualties of
a Collision Sport Destructive Psychological Impacts of A Pressure-Ridden
Game Positions and Personalities Leaving the Game Chapter 3 - NBA & WNBA:
Trees In Blossom The Development and Growth of a Pair of Modern
Leagues From All White to a Decisive Black Majority The Background for
Making the NBA College as One and Done or Close To It The Draft and
Surrounding Events Too Many Candidates for Too Few Slots Playing In the NBA
Key Elements of the Game Scoring and Its Contribution to the Team The
Discreet Decline of Rebounding The Impact of Assists Defenses: Their
Understated Value The WNBA and Its Achievements The Development of WNBA
Players The End of the Line Chapter 4 - NHL: Intricacy on Ice The Birth of
the National Hockey League Mobilizing Boys toward the NHL College or the
Pros? On The NHL's Doorstep Important Challenges on Joining a NHL Team
Effectiveness in Training Camp Unrelenting Performance Demands Team
Expectations Need To Satisfy Team Trust On-Going Controversy about Fighting
in the NHL Deploying the Combatants The Front Line The Defense A Final
Comment Chapter 5 - MLS: New Kid on the Global Pitch The Down-And-Slowly-Up
History of American Pro Soccer The Measured Development of Elite American
Soccer Players A Look at MLS Academies' Foreign Competition The Combine and
Draft MLS and Its Stringent Agenda The MLS Preseason and Its Challenges
Various Difficult Issues: Salaries, Foreign Players, Injuries MLS and
Ranging Incomes The League's Imports Performance Interrupters: Injury and
Illicit Drugs The Impact of Concussions Additional Injuries and Responses
To Them PED Use in MLS: Making Too Much Out Of It? The Divided Pitch
Forwards, Especially Strikers Men in the Middle The Deep Defenders The Long
Road Ahead Chapter 6 - Atypical Pros and Their Competitive Reality Disabled
Athletes in Pro Sports Modern White Players in the NBA Gays and Lesbians in
the Pros The Lonely Life of NFL Kickers Two-Sport Pros A Final Commentary
Chapter 7 - Life after Game Days: A Wrenching Experience? Wrapping Up The
Brutal Aftermath Work after Play Former Point Guards and Catchers and Other
Would-Be Coaches and Managers Sports Jocks on the Tube and Elsewhere Notes
Selected Bibliography Index About The Author
Advent of Pro Team Sports' Affluent Age Players' Challenges Pro Players'
Uncommon Experiences Chapter 1 - MLB: Separation Anxiety From The Beginning
The Campaign for MLB Diversity The Journey and Its Challenges The Draft
Joining a Minor-League Team Moving Up Pitfalls Shooting Down the
Competition Players Caught in the Media Circus Outside the Lagoon Players'
Performance Hitting Pitching Fielding Closing the Career Chapter 2 - NFL: A
Collision Cocktail Spiked With Size, Strength, Speed, And Skill The
Organization of a Highly Organized Game African Americans' Integration of
the NFL Factors Contributing To Young Footballers' Development Zeroing In
On Going Pro Preparing For the Upcoming Campaign Experiencing Competition
in the NFL The Day of the Game Rugged Realities of NFL Games Casualties of
a Collision Sport Destructive Psychological Impacts of A Pressure-Ridden
Game Positions and Personalities Leaving the Game Chapter 3 - NBA & WNBA:
Trees In Blossom The Development and Growth of a Pair of Modern
Leagues From All White to a Decisive Black Majority The Background for
Making the NBA College as One and Done or Close To It The Draft and
Surrounding Events Too Many Candidates for Too Few Slots Playing In the NBA
Key Elements of the Game Scoring and Its Contribution to the Team The
Discreet Decline of Rebounding The Impact of Assists Defenses: Their
Understated Value The WNBA and Its Achievements The Development of WNBA
Players The End of the Line Chapter 4 - NHL: Intricacy on Ice The Birth of
the National Hockey League Mobilizing Boys toward the NHL College or the
Pros? On The NHL's Doorstep Important Challenges on Joining a NHL Team
Effectiveness in Training Camp Unrelenting Performance Demands Team
Expectations Need To Satisfy Team Trust On-Going Controversy about Fighting
in the NHL Deploying the Combatants The Front Line The Defense A Final
Comment Chapter 5 - MLS: New Kid on the Global Pitch The Down-And-Slowly-Up
History of American Pro Soccer The Measured Development of Elite American
Soccer Players A Look at MLS Academies' Foreign Competition The Combine and
Draft MLS and Its Stringent Agenda The MLS Preseason and Its Challenges
Various Difficult Issues: Salaries, Foreign Players, Injuries MLS and
Ranging Incomes The League's Imports Performance Interrupters: Injury and
Illicit Drugs The Impact of Concussions Additional Injuries and Responses
To Them PED Use in MLS: Making Too Much Out Of It? The Divided Pitch
Forwards, Especially Strikers Men in the Middle The Deep Defenders The Long
Road Ahead Chapter 6 - Atypical Pros and Their Competitive Reality Disabled
Athletes in Pro Sports Modern White Players in the NBA Gays and Lesbians in
the Pros The Lonely Life of NFL Kickers Two-Sport Pros A Final Commentary
Chapter 7 - Life after Game Days: A Wrenching Experience? Wrapping Up The
Brutal Aftermath Work after Play Former Point Guards and Catchers and Other
Would-Be Coaches and Managers Sports Jocks on the Tube and Elsewhere Notes
Selected Bibliography Index About The Author