{"product_id":"living-out-of-bounds-the-male-athletes-everyday-life-paperback","title":"Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven J. Overman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. \u003ci\u003eLiving Out of Bounds\u003c\/i\u003e provides answers to persistent questions about what it's really like to be an athlete and discusses the filtered image of the athlete that emerges through books and other media. Steven J. Overman mines a wide array of sports biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries to construct a representative picture of the athlete's life from the rise of American sport in the late nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind the sports celebrity as he exists on a daily basis. Individual chapters cover topics such as college athletics, the pressure of celebrity, the difficulty of balancing sports and everyday life, sex and sexuality, race in sports, the obsession with the body, and the difficulties associated with retiring. In the course of the work, a portrait emerges that transcends individual lives. The shared experiences of devoted training, of travel and hotels, and of tension within and beyond the clubhouse or gym force us to appreciate the often oppressive reality of the sporting life; at the same time, individual lives provide a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to audiences and athletes across America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven J. Overman, a retired academic, has published extensively about sports and has contributed columns and op-ed pieces for newspapers. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Influence of the Protestant Ethic on Sport and Recreation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757588054304,"sku":"9780803232877","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/aa18c8dc5976ac68859fc2b496d18ad4.webp?v=1780105936","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/living-out-of-bounds-the-male-athletes-everyday-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}