1. Kimmel quotes Donald hall's book , "Fathers playing catch with sons" I find this quote interesting in that he claims baseball is something fathers and sons do together but football is something that only brothers do together. I think the idea of a father and son playing catch with a baseball could easily be replaced with a father and son playing catch with a football. Also in this quote he links all generations together simply by the fact that everyone has played baseball and because of this it encloses what we are.

2. Kimmel quotes Chief boy scout Ernst Thomson Seton in David Mclouds book " Building character in the American boy" saying that consumer society had " turned robust manly , self reliant boyhood into a lot of flat chested cigarette smokers with shaky nerves and doubtful vitality" I find this quote interesting because it adds to his argument of the crisis of masculinity at the time. I also found this interesting because of the general theme of what was considered masculine or in masculine at the current time.

3. Kimmel quotes Teddy Roosevelt in Thompsons book Vigorous men, A vigorous nation, " the greatest danger that a long period of profound peace offers to a nation is that of creating effeminate tendencies in young men". This quote from Teddy Roosevelt adding to the general theme of what was consider masculine at the time period. I found this interesting because he also quotes Teddy in other places in the essay, he seems to be an ideal figure of what was masculine at the time.