![]() In the corner of his glass booth, however, I detected a small television set broadcasting a Saturday afternoon game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles then being played at Fenway Park. Whereas the equivalent immigration officer in any European country would have obliged me with delight, this Boston-based officer completely conformed to the expected habitus of the average American male sports fan by looking at me with a mixture of amazement, estrangement, incredulity, and perhaps even some hostility while professing his total ignorance of the event, let alone the outcome, with equanimity bordering on pride. Upon my arrival in Boston, I proceeded to ask the immigration officer the result of the game that had just ended in Mexico. Needless to say, all papers bristled with detailed pregame analyses and massive previews of the match between two of the best teams playing in that tournament. Having been caught up by the World Cup of soccer then being played in Mexico, I bought a number of German newspapers to saturate my interest in the impending-and much anticipated-quarterfinal game between Brazil and France, which I was to miss on account of my transatlantic journey. THE STORY of this book begins on Saturday afternoon June 21, 1986, when I boarded a plane in Frankfurt on my way home to Boston after completing a lecture tour in a number of European countries. A Sample of Opinion from American Sports Columnists and Journalists regarding the 1994 World Cup ![]() A Statistical Abstract on Recreational, Scholastic, and Collegiate Soccer in the United States B. Seven The Coverage of World Cup ’98 by the American Media and the Tournament’s Reception by the American PublicĪppendixes A. Three Soccer’s Trials and Tribulations: Beginnings, Chaos, “Almosts,” Obscurity, and Collegesįour The Formation and Rearrangement of the American Sport Space in the Second Half of the Twentieth Centuryįive From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer Two The Formation of the American Sport Space: “Crowding Out” and Other Factors in the Relegation and Marginalization of Soccer One The Argument: Sports As Culture in Industrial Societies-American Conformities and Exceptions Title GV706.5.M363 2001 796.334′0973-dc21 00-061115 This book has been composed in Centaur and Sabon The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper) Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (Pbk.)Ĭontents. Sports-United States-Sociological aspects. Includes bibliographical references and index. Offside : soccer and American exceptionalism / Andrei S. HellermanĬopyright 2001 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Markovits, Andrei S. OFFSIDE SOCCER AND AMERICAN E XC E P T I O N A L I S M Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England by David Zaret Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria by Wendy Griswold Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture by Gary Alan Fine Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism by Andrei S. PRINCETON STUDIES I N C U LT U R A L S O C I O L O G Y
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |