Zang (sport studies, Towson University) reads the history of the 1960s through the lens of organized and professional sports and vice versa. He describes sports as a representative of the status quo, and details criticisms made against both its individual abuses and the values it represented. Particular attention is given to the critiques mounted b

David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner (not a jogger). In short, he soldiered through the life of an ordinary athlete.
Whether pondering his long-unbuilt replica of Connie Mack Stadium or his eye-opening turn as the Baltimore Ravens' mascot, Zang offers tales at turns poignant and hilarious as he engages with the passions that shaped his life. Yet his meditations also probe the tragedy of a modern athletic culture that substitutes hyped...