While contemporary American sport films seem to be targeting the adolescent audience for a message of empowerment, a smaller group of sport films seems to have reached out to the adult audience with the “preposterous” claim that sport allows us opportunities for personal redemption. Through interviews conducted at the Dyersville, Iowa, site of Fields of Dreams, a critical examination of several contemporary adult baseball films, and analysis of the Pete Rose saga, I hope to show that the opportunity for personal redemption is not only possible but in fact is a primary function of all sport. When asked in Field of Dreams by Shoeless Joe Jackson, “Is this heaven?” Ray Kinsella responds, “No, it’s Iowa.” I maintain that the predominant mythos in contemporary sport is that, indeed, it is heaven.

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This paper describas the theory and practical aspects of an audio power amplifier capable of delivering 50-W continuous into a 6-104 load. The design utilizes a monolithic operational amplifier and incorporates a novel output driver circuit. Design objectives include low cost, unconditional thermal stability, and the use of standard-tolerance unmatched components. The output stage efficiency analysis assumes an unregulated power 5upply.

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