| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The need for heroes -- The psyche of the athlete -- Baseball gambling scandals -- Football gambling scandals -- Basketball gambling scandals -- Self-destructive athletes -- Athletes and violence toward women -- Athletes and murder -- Violence between athletes -- Athletes' mental health problems -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
On the court and on the field, they are the world's winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, when off the field, our sports heroes lose: their perspective, their balance, their place. In a work as timely as the latest fracas on the basketball court or the most recent drug-induced scandal in the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum looks into the circumstances behind so many star athletes' precipitous fall from grace. Why, he asks, do these sports heroes who seem to have it all also seem, increasingly, to have a superhuman proclivity for se |
| Notes |
Subtitle on cover: How star athletes pursue self-destructive paths and jeopardize their careers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Athletes -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies
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Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sports Psychology.
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Athletes -- Psychology
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Sports -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0803205392 |
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9780803205390 |
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1280423773 |
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9781280423772 |
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9786610423774 |
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6610423776 |
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0803244452 |
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9780803244450 |
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