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Spoii -; and Politics in America 1 rES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1959 Spoii;- and Politics in America By JAMES RESTON ica's diversion and illusion but won't, and unlike Bill Rogers time out from his resportsibill0 Sport in America plays a part its hope. The world of sports in the State Department or ties to recognize the popular has everything the world of Henry Kissinger in the base- attraction of sports. Not since in our national life that is prob- politics lacks and longs for. ment of the White House, Calvin Coolidge have we had ably more important than even It has a set of rules. It has an everybody will know whether a more awkward Mated: the social scientists believe. umpire or supreme court that they are effective or not. locker-room char in the New York City is a jungle of cannot be challenged, even by Maybe this is why Seaver White House th Richard human conflicts these days— Leo Durocher, and even if and Koosman of the baseball Nixon, but he bud es up to over commerce, education, wrong. In short, baseball and Mets and Joe Namath of the Ted Williams of the Washington transportation, pollution, the football are conflict under con- New York football Jets are the Senators, and never misses, churches, the races and every- trol, and they have other ad- most popular personalities in an opportunity to demonstrate thing else—but the Mets are vantages. New York today. They are the that he is a "real American," now in the race for the Na- Unlike the world of politics, underdogs from the "sticks" following all the batting and tional Baseball League pennant business, or universities, the making good against the odds passing averages in the land. , and they are almost the only conflicts of sports can be seen, and doing it on television, Nixon and Sports unifying force in the Big City. and have a beginning and an where all the other underdogs The reason is perfectly clear. end. In the political or academic This is not a wholly cynical can see them. or political exercise. He is, This is the classic theatrical world, you can have weak Mayor Lindsay, running for New York story: it is Cinder- Senators or university presi- genuinely interested in sports. re-election, is a minor character Games fascinate and divert hint( ella; the country-boy who broke dents for a while, but in the in this larger sports spectacular Wall Street; the hopeless, even sports world, a weak tackle or from his problems. They have ridiculous "loser" who hits the pitcher is an immediate disaster. of New York. He has no central more pageantry and even dig- forum. like Shea Stadium. He nity than most mass occasions jackpot. The New York theater The Big Show roams the streets making sensi- has gone cynical and nude and in American life; more team The results show. A baseball ble arguments about the future work, more unity, more >cer-• is in trouble, but Shea Stadium of New York City, but his au- out by La Guardia Airport is pennant race is not like a tainty at the end than most now the best theater in town, foreign policy: you don't have diences are small, his arguments things—so he watches the not because it is new and nude to wait twenty-five years to vague and philosophical — and games, not only because it is but because it is old and square. get the results. It will happen for the moment nobody is lis- good politics, but because it is for the Mets between now and tening. an escape from his normal, The Ideal of Sports the end of September. Their Sports are now more popular problems that have no rules- Like Cinderella, the Mets will youth will either carry them than politics in America, in- and no end. get to the decisive stroke of through with Tom Seaver and creasingly so since the spread Will the Mets make it after midnight, not with the Chicago Jerry Koosman or the pressure of television. The great corpo- those nine games with the Cubs, but probably in their nine will be too much and they will rations are now much more Pirates? Will Joe Namath repeat games this month with the collapse. interested in paying millions for in the Super Bowl this year Pittsburgh Pirates, but even if But either way, it will be the sports broadcasts than they are Will Arnie Palmer come back' they don't make it for them- best show in New York. For the for all political events except after 40 or merely make selves, they have made a point struggle will be in the open. the nominations and inaugura- money? Nobody knows, but,• about sports for a lot of other It will not be like most of the tions of Presidents, because the America will be watching, prob-:, pebple. back-stage conflicts of politics. general public is watching and ably more carefully about these, 4or sports and games, in •a Seaver and Koosman will either listening. sporting questions than about 'fenny way, are not only Amer- have speed and control or they Even President Nixon takes the larger issues of politics. with• American society. Profes- orts Professional sports publicly grow up and deal with the Spectator Sp re-enact America's "true-blue" sional sports like TV Westerns To the Editor: problems of being human in a values. In this sense they serve —both American morality plays highly complex world—a world Jarnes Reston in his Sept. 12 as a functional alternative to —embody America's moralistic in which many, perhaps most, column discussed the impor- traditional religious expressidriS simplicity which didn't really of the problems are intractable, tance of sports in America. in America — and a very pop- work in the nineteenth century The cities, the population ex- This is precisely a point I have ular one at that. and is totally unworkable at plosion, peace, the widening made in a course I teach on Sociologically I label spec.. this point in the twentieth,. gap between the rich and poor the sociology of religion. tator sports a religious phenom- Competition of UnequalS at home• and in the world—such Sociologically, one of the ma- ena because to identify with History, reality, life is clos- problems won't be solved by jor functions religion serves is professional sports is to iden- being "taken out to the ball the public celebration of the tify with the values and norms ing in on America's illusions. Vietnam has dealt a severe blow game." values and norms which hold which have made American, so- Interestingly, many of today's a society together. The public ciety tick in the past. Unam- to our Jack Armstrong com- plex, and unlike pro football, college youth are turned off by celebrations of most churches biguous instant justice: an um- spectator sports. Some would and synagogues-have lost much pire's decision. The "unbeata- the war just isn't finishing in four quarters—despite that "un- rebut this by saying, "Yes, but of heir plausibility, which is ble" combination of American they're turned on by LSD and nbiterthe case of professional' power and know-how: symbol- beatable" combination of power and American know-how. And pot." Frankly, that's a put sixes. c At. on. ically represented in the brains down. They're also turned on and brawn of Joe Namath. as for fair play and regulated competition, ghetto blacks, Cali- by sophisticated political aware- All the old "verities" are ness, a quest for human values, properly staged and acted in fornia grape-pickers and Appa- lachian poor whites are making and a commitment to facing the professional sports: "regulated hard truths about today's world competition," "super stars," it painfully clear that the story of America is really a story of in a meaningful way. "fair play,' and all in 180 min. ARTHUR L. ANDERSON utes. competition between unequals, What we Americans really Fairfield University However, while Reston is Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 12, 1969 right about America's enthusi- have to decide is whether to agm for professional sports, opt for more sports; Westerns that's exactly what is wrong and the Roman circuses of many of our poverty programs, or to .
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