The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), by Thomas Eakins, 1871. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund and George D. Pratt Gift, 1934.

Sports & Games

Volume III, Number 3 | summer 2010

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Field of Dreams

By Lewis H. Lapham

Play is the making of civilization—how one plays the game more to the point than whether the game is won or lost.

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The Best of It

By Beth Raymer

The key to winning money is knowing a good line when you see one.

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Map

Playing Grounds

On the track, in the ring, around the table, and at the target.

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c. 1580 | Delhi

Great Balls of Fire

Akbar lights up the polo field.More

1903 | Detroit

Race Car

Henry Ford remembers the car that changed everything.More

1854 | Yokohama

A Pair of Fierce Bulls

Commodore Perry is fascinated by sumo.More

Charts & Graphs

Get a Life

Facts and figures about the online virtual world Second Life circa 2009.

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Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

American baseball player Yogi Berra.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838

Missing contributor image silhouette

Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.

Bacchylides & Johan Huizinga

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