Sport and Athletics

Radical education not only develops our thinking, but at its best, it also develops the whole person–body, mind and spirit. That’s why we’re starting this section on sports and athletics. We will also offer critiques of how sport is often distorted in a capitalist-ruled world

In their book Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers’ Rights and American Empire, authors Robert Elias and Peter Dreier reveal a little-known yet important history of rebellion among professional ballplayers. These reformers took inspiration from the country’s dissenters and progressive movements, speaking and acting against abuses within and beyond their profession, demanding better working conditions, battling against corporate power and challenging America’s wars, imperialism and unjust foreign policies, resisting the brash patriotism that many link with the “national pastime.” They discuss all of it here with Eric Nusbaum, author of Stealing Home. 40 minute Video here