Your brain on Cubs
Subtitle: inside the heads of players and fans
By: edited by Dan Gordon.
Contributors: Gordon, Dan 1977-
Publisher: Dana Press; Distributed worldwide by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; [S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781932594287
Subjects: Chicago Cubs (Baseball team); Baseball fans -- Psychology; Baseball players -- Psychology
Other titles: Inside the heads of players and fans 
Description: Chicago Cubs fans offer a unique conduit for understanding how our brain lets us believe in a "curse", and what makes a day at the ballpark so enjoyable. For the players, brain research offers insight into what makes it possible to hit a fastball traveling 95-miles an hour.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: The depths of loyalty: exploring the brain of a die-hard fan / Jordan Grafman; title: Developing talent: expertise and the brain / Scott Grafton; title: Why did Casey strike out? The neuroscience of hitting / John Milton, Ana Solodkin, and Steven L. Small; title: Curses! / Tom Valeo and Lindsay Beyerstein; title: Risks and asterisks: neurological enhancements in baseball / Bennett Foddy; title: Baseball and handedness / Kenneth M. Heilman; title: It isn't whether you win or lose, it's whether you win: agony and ecstasy in the brain / Kelli Whitlock Burton and Hillary R. Rodman.