Ebook: Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Pre-Game Warm-up: Who's on First?; First Inning: Hometown Heroes; 1 "There's No Place Like Home!"; 2 Minnesota's "Homer Hanky Jurisprudence": Contraction, Ethics, and the Twins; Second Inning: You Gotta Believe!; 3 Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of Faith; 4 Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice; Third Inning: The Umpire's NewClothes; 5 There Are No Ties at First Base; 6 Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls; Fourth Inning: Fair or Foul?;Baseball and Philosophy presents thirty-one talented professional thinkers who have found wisdom in and through baseball. They explore some of the game's deeper questions and expound baseball's lessons for truth, justice, American identity, and human fulfillment. --Is the intentional walk unethical?. --Can superstition help you play better?. --Do Cubs fans teach us about religious faith?. --Does chance decide who wins the World Series?