You may not remember Doug Glanville from his playing days with the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs, but for a number of years, he was a very solid major league outfielder.
The Temptation Of The Modern Athlete
↵Today, he moonlights as an even better New York Times opinion writer:
↵↵But something magical happened before I had to do much work. I signed a professional baseball contract as a junior in college and went away to my first spring training as a member of the Chicago Cubs organization. […]
↵As you climb the baseball ladder, your social confidence explodes. You receive the sort of attention you never did as an acne-ridden honors student. Quite frankly, it is addictive, and when you are in it, there seems to be no end in sight. […]
↵The pro athlete’s world is self-centered at best. Schedule is fixed, practice a must, travel a given. Anyone choosing to share that has to get on board and fit in. It can get to a point where the relationship is strictly one-way (the athlete’s way), and the other party becomes insignificant, more a prop than a true relationship partner.
↵↵In an honest, first-hand account of his time in pro sports, Glanville probes at the complexity involved with judging someone like Tiger Woods, and the slippery slope that leads so many stars toward infidelity. Check it out.
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