Gary Belsky on the Origins of Sports

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🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Gary Belsky, co-author of On the Origins of Sports and former editor-in-chief of ESPN the Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of sports--how various sports evolved and emerged into their current incarnations. Along the way he discusses the popularity of American football, the written (and unwritten) rules of sports, and the focus on replay and fairness in modern sports.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:25.8	going back to 2006.
0:28.2	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
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0:34.5	Today is March 21, 2016, and my guest is Gary Belzky, founding partner of the Consulting
0:40.9	firm Ellen Rode Partners, former Editor-in-Chief of ESPN, the magazine, and author with Neil
0:46.8	Fine of numerous books, the latest being on the origins of sports, the early history,
0:52.4	and original rules of everybody's favorite games.
0:55.2	Gary, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:57.6	It's a pleasure.
0:59.2	So this is a really entertaining book.
1:02.7	It covers a lot of things, a lot of sports, and a lot of aspects of sports that people
1:07.3	don't know about, it's amusing, and you learn a lot along the way.
1:12.2	It also includes some things that some people wouldn't call sports, which we'll get to
1:16.0	later.
1:17.0	I'm going to start with a very basic question, which sports started with the thickest rule
1:22.6	book, in which sport do you think has the thickest one now?
1:28.1	That's an interesting question.
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