"[I]f play is brainfood, then ball play is like a high-protein,
calorie-packed energy bar. The ball may be the most animate of inanimate objects in our
material world. . . my own term to describe balls as objects [is]: kinetically
interesting. Balls can bounce, roll, be struck, thrown and caught fairly easily at a wide
range of speeds. They are highly aerodynamic and yet unpredictable in their trajectory, capable
in the hands of a deft knuckleball pitcher of appearing to defy the laws of physics. .
. Balls are also by nature social tools. They draw animals and humans together, inviting either
cooperation or competition, or as in most sports, some dynamic combination of the two."
-John Fox, PhD, Anthropology
The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game
(New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2012), pp. 28-29.
-John Fox, PhD, Anthropology
The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game
(New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2012), pp. 28-29.
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