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Bernard Suits’ witty, philosophical examination of Aesop’s famous fable was one of the very first books I read when I found out about an academic discipline called “philosophy of sport.” The book not only introduced me to the discipline but also helped me understand the critical role that games, such as sport, play in our efforts to live well. In a nutshell, Suits’ Grasshopper taught me that we engage in sport to face artificially created problems and, in doing so, flourish as human beings.