What's My Name, Fool?What's My Name, Fool? Dave Zirin Career Dave Zirin commentates on varied sports-related matters from a liberal point-of-view. Zirin champions athletes and issues which might be overlooked by corporate sports media and addresses the tendency of the media to objectify and employ athletes as pawns in Haymarket Books PO Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618 1931859205 $15.00 1-773-583-7884 www.haymarketbooks.org What's My Name, Fool? is a charged collection of brief, straight-talk essays about racism, politics, athletes and sports in American history. From the story Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali, pasha of Egypt Muhammad Ali, 1769?–1849, pasha of Egypt after 1805. He was a common soldier who rose to leadership by his military skill and political acumen. , who refused participation in the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. and was stripped of his title for it, to the exploited death of Pat Tillman Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 – April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. He was killed in action in Afghanistan. , who refused to be used as a propaganda symbol for America's wars in life but proved to be far more pliable in death (until the acknowledgment acknowledgment, in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. came five weeks later that he was killed by friendly fire), to a biting criticism of how female athletes are subject to sexist media slurs, What's My Name, Fool? balances close scrutiny of the facts with a no-holds-barred denouncement of racism, sexism, and just plain rampant greed. A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this fiery revelation to a side of sports that big team owners, corporations, and fat cats don't want ordinary fans to see. More than highly recommended; if you read only one sports book this year, make it What's My Name, Fool? 
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