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Sports in American Life A History

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John Wiley & Sons Inc

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24.5/17.9/2 cm

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2. Auflage

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Englisch

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978-0-470-65546-7

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Taschenbuch

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

464

Maße (L/B/H)

24.5/17.9/2 cm

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2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-470-65546-7

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  • Produktbild: Sports in American Life
  • List of Illustrations xi
    Preface xiv

    Acknowledgments xx

    1 The Emergence of Organized Sports, 1607-1860 1

    Games in Colonial New England 2

    Recreations in Southern Colonies 4

    The Revolutionary Era and Beyond 8

    The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters 10

    Racing by Land and Sea 12

    The Formative Years of Prizefighting 15

    Baseball: The Creation of "America's Game" 20

    2 Baseball: "This Noble and Envigorating Game" 24

    The Early Professional Era 25

    Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers 29

    Growing Pains 30

    Early Years of the Professional Game 33

    Emergence of the Modern Game 36

    The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor 38

    3 The Formative Years of College Football 41

    The Early Years of College Athletics 42

    Football American Style 43

    Yale and the Creation of Football 44

    Football Moves West 49

    Football as Spectacle 51

    Football in Crisis 54

    4 The Modernization of American Sports, 1865-1920 60

    Prizefighting Enters the Mainstream 61

    Sports and Social Class 65

    Strong Bodies and Devout Souls 68

    America's Greatest Athlete 72

    Organized Play for the Modern Er a 75

    Interscholastic Sports 77

    5 Baseball Ascendant, 1890-1930 79

    The 1890s: Years of Discord 80

    Ban Johnson and the American League 81

    The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach 83

    Masters of Strategy 85

    The Federal League Challenge 88

    Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of 1919 90

    The Babe 94

    Baseball s Golden Age 98

    6 Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 1860-1945 102

    The Early Years of Women s Sports 103

    The Demise of Women's Athletics 107

    Helen and Trudy: America's First Women Sports Stars 109

    Babe: The Texas Tomboy 111

    Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks 115

    7 "An Evil To Be Endured": Sports on Campus, 1920-1950 118

    The Essential Myth of Big-Time College Athletics 119

    Football: Driving the Bus 121

    Football s Golden Age: The Twenties 122

    Knute Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football 125

    The Second Challenge to Big-Time Football 130

    Hoop Dreams 133

    Hoop Nightmares 135

    8 Sports in an Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 138

    Gee-Whiz: Sports Journalism during the 1920s 139

    Heroes for a Heroic Age 141

    Boxing Gains Respectability 144

    Baseball's Long Slump 148

    Seabiscuit: Sports Star for the Depression Era 153

    Baseball during the War Years 155

    9 America s Great Dilemma 157

    The "Fight of the Century" 158

    Separate and Unequal: The Negro Leagues 162

    Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe 166

    Jackie 171

    In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson 175

    Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites 177

    The Baron and the Bear 180

    10 Television Changes the Image of American Sports 185

    The Formative Years of Sports Television 186

    Tale of the Tube: Boxing 188

    Professional Football Comes of Age 191

    Pete and Roone 193

    Super Sunday and Monday Night 196

    ESPN: All Sports, All the Time 200

    11 College Sports in the Modern Era 204

    The Sanity Code Is Scuttled 205

    Creation of a Cartel 206

    Emphasis and De-Emphasis 207

    Woody and the Bear 208

    Criticism of Major College Sports 213

    Revenue vs Reform: An Unresolved Contradiction 220

    College Sports as Big Business 223

    12 Play for Pay 227

    A Tale of Two (Football) Cities 227

    Urban Relocation, Redevelopment, and Promotion 230

    The Economics of Organized Baseball 232

    Baseball's Labor Disputes 237

    The Magic of Parity: The National Football League 240

    The Wondrous World of Magic, Larry, and Michael 243

    Always Turn Left: NASCAR Takes the Checkered Flag 247

    Struggling To Be Major League 253

    13 Do You Believe in Miracles? 255

    The Cold War Shapes the Olympics 258

    Television Transforms the Olympics 264

    The Games Must Go On 268

    To Boycott or Not To Boycott 271

    The Triumph of Professionalism 273

    Athens and Beyond 276

    14 The Persistent Dilemma of Race 278"I m the Greatest" 280

    Boycott,