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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Sport and militarism: an introduction to a global phenomenon; Part I Sport, militarism, and the state; 2 Call of duty: sport and the urban citizen soldier; 3 Weaponizing kinesiology: illuminating the militarization of the sport sciences; 4 Baseball czars, war, and the US military; 5 "Aktiv, Attraktiv, Anders"?: the Bundeswehr's deployment of sports soldiers; 6 Sport and the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, 1899-1902.

Baseball has long been considered America's "national pastime," touted variously as a healthy diversion, a symbol of national unity, and a model of democratic inclusion. But, according to Michael Butterworth, such favorable rhetoric belies baseball's complicity in the rhetorical construction of a world defined by good and evil. Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity is an investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way. It pays special attention to baseball's role in the reconstruction of Am

In the wake of the child abuse scandal at Penn State, much attention was given to the role of Joe Paterno, who had spent 46 years as the university's head football coach. Paterno's subsequent death, just months after he had been fired by the Board of Trustees, provoked numerous efforts in sports media to determine his "legacy." Such attempts to make sense of Paterno's legacy, and to do so immediately, spotlight our collective anxieties and prompt the symbolic contests that are symptomatic of public memory. This essay reflects on the choices we make and the opportunities we miss when memorializing a figure of Paterno's stature.

This essay identifies the recent discursive formation that has emerged about gay players in the "American game." In particular, media reports speculating that New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza could be gay spotlight the tensions that historically have been part of baseball culture. The author's argument suggests that Piazza's on-field performances of gender shifted to rearticulate his identity in terms of hegemonic masculinity. In this specific case, Piazza as a catcher metaphorically embodied and resisted the receptivity and passivity often assigned to gay men. Piazza's behavior and the discourse surrounding gay identity in baseball call attention to the ways gender is used to mark bodies in sport, to perpetuate normative standards of masculinity, and to discipline those who do not adhere to these norms.

The democratic hemisphere / Christa J. Olson -- A strange democracy : rhetoric, posthegemony, and Latinamericanism / José Cortez -- Draining the democracy : Donald J. Trump and anti-immigrant rhetoric / Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, and Linsay M. Cramer -- Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors / René Agustín de los Santos -- American exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of US-Cuban relations / Michael L. Butterworth -- Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan rhetorics of corruption / Adriana Angel -- Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists' crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico / Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco -- The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion on the Colombian plebiscite : religious activism and democracy / Pamela Flores and Nancy R. Gómez -- People, media, and democracy in Brazil : discourses about Lula's oratory in the Brazilian press / Carlos Piovezani -- The farewell speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner / Alejandra Vitale -- Spectacular crisis : rhetorics of representation in Venezuela / Abraham Romney.