With the Boys

Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture

• Author(s): Gary Alan Fine,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 022622354X
  ISBN_13: 9780226223544
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General , Social Science / Children's Studies ,

Description:... What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball. Drawings on three years of firsthand observation of five Little Leagues, Fine describes how, through organized sport and its accompanying activities, boys learn to play, work, and generally be "men."