Hour 1: Why do we play and how did we as humans settle on a spherical object as the center of many of our games? We’ll talk this hour with anthropologist and sports enthusiast John Fox. His new book is “The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game” (Harper Perennial, 2012).
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