TY  - JOUR
TT  - The Pastime Past Time: The Uniqueness of Baseball as an American Sport - A Psycho-Biblical Analysis
AU  - Cantz, Paul
AU  - Kaplan, Kalman J.
AU  - Kaplan, Daniel L.
PY  - 2016
DA  - December
JF  - International Journal of Sport Culture and Science
JO  - IntJSCS
PB  - Uluslararası Bilim Kültür ve Spor Derneği (UBİKS)
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-1148
SP  - 367
EP  - 380
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
KW  - Baseball
KW  - Bible
KW  - American Culture
KW  - Greek Mythology
N2  - The essence of what makes baseball unique amongst sporting competitions can be difficult toarticulate. In this paper we suggest that what links baseball and American culture is a sharedreliance, often implicit, on a biblical as opposed to a more Graeco-European way ofappreciating life. Devoid of a cross-cultural perspective, however, baseball’s biblical substrateis initially difficult to discern, and therefore it is instructive to provide contrast by comparingthe modern game of baseball to Ancient Greek sports and motifs. This might seem like acurious comparison except for the fact that the Ancient Greeks are credited with inauguratingthe very enterprise of organized athletic competition through the Olympic games, and in sodoing establishing a distinctly Graeco-Roman undercurrent that permeates most other modernsports, with notable exception, we argue, to the most Hebraic of sports: Baseball.
CR  - Bercovitch S (1976). The Puritan origins of the American self. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/intjscs/article/300034
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/286226
ER  -