In This Section: I) Brief Table of Contents II) Detailed Table of Contents I) Brief Table of Contents Chapter 1. Sports in Early America Chapter 2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports Chapter 3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles Chapter 4. The Rise of America's National Game Chapter 5. Elite Sports Chapter 6. The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports Chapter 7. Broader Horizons Chapter 8. Sports, Culture and Nation: 1900-1945 Chapter 9. The Rise of Organized Youth Sports Chapter 10. The Age of Sports Heroes Chapter 11. Baseball's Golden Age Chapter 12. The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle Chapter 13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's Sports Chapter 14. Globalizing Sports, Redefining Race Chapter 15. The Setting of Organized Sports Since World War II Chapter 16. Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television Chapter 17. College Sports in the Age of Television Chapter 18. Racial Revolution Chapter 19. Women's Liberation Chapter 20. All Sports All the Time Chapter 21. Sports in the Twenty-First Century II) Detailed Table of Contents Chapter 1. Sports in Early America The North American Ball Game The Mesoamerican Ball Game European Sporting Traditions European Sport in the Americas Sport in the Southern British Colonies Southern Festivals Tensions in New England "Lawful Sport" in New England and the Middle Colonies The Great Awakening and Republican Ideology Chapter 2. The Setting for Nineteenth-Century Sports Conquering Space and Time The Rise of Middle-Class Victorian Culture "Rational" Recreation Alternatives and Opposition The Sporting Fraternity The Base Ball Fraternity The Elite Clubs Sports Moves to the Center Sports and Respect Chapter 3. The Sporting Fraternity and Its Spectacles Enclaves of the Fancy John Cox Stevens: Wealthy Sporting Patron Pedestrianism The Early History of American Prizefighting Meanings of Prizefighting Prizefighting in the Postbellum Era Enter John L. Sullivan Chapter 4. The Rise of America's National Game The Club-Based Fraternal Game Baseball as a Commercial Enterprise The National League The Players' Revolt Between the Foul Lines and in the Stands Baseball Overseas Chapter 5. Elite Sports Sports and the Forging of an American Upper Class The Wealthy New York Sporting Community Thoroughbred Horse Racing Athletic Clubs Amateurism and Its Uses Cricket Clubs and Country Clubs Chapter 6. The Rise of Intercollegiate Sports Rowing: The First Intercollegiate Sport Origins of Football Walter Camp: Father of American Football Football and the Strenuous Life Football and the Making of College Communities Football as a Sporting Spectacle Chapter 7. Broader Horizons The Carlisle Indians Doors Close on African American Athletes Women Join the Game Fending Off Critics Chapter 8. Sports, Culture and Nation: 1900-1945 Sports in Daily Life The Media and Sports Consumer Culture and a New Middle Class Flappers and Female Athletes Race and International Competition Challenges The Challenge of Amateurism Chapter 9. The Rise of Organized Youth Sports Luter Halsey Gulick Jr. The Evolutionary Theory of Play The Public Schools Athletic League The Playground Movement Public High School Sports Chapter 10. The Age of Sports Heroes Jack Johnson: Smashing Race Stereotypes Babe Ruth: Extraordinary Success Jack Dempsey and Tex Rickard: Charisma and Ballyhoo Helen Wills: "The American Girl" Chapter 11. Baseball's Golden Age Baseball's Coming of Age An Age of the Pitcher Ty Cobb The Quest for Order The Black Sox Scandal and the Reign of Kenesaw Mountain Landis An Age of Team Dynasties The Negro Leagues U.S.-Caribbean Connections End of an Era Chapter 12. The Intercollegiate Football Spectacle The Age of Crisis The Formation of Conferences "King Football" The Football Coach as Hero Incomplete Democratization Continuing Controversies Chapter 13. The Rise and Decline of Organized Women's Sports Babe Didrikson: Triumph and Struggle Hazel Walker: Creating Professional Opportunities Historically Black Colleges Nurture Female Athletes All-American Girls A War over Turf and Principles Rah, Rah, Rah Chapter 14. Globalizing Sports, Redefining Race The Olympic Games Jim Thorpe: American Olympic Legend The Olympics as Civic Showcase The Nazi Olympics The Brown Bomber Significance of Racial Accomplishment Chapter 15. The Setting of Organized Sports Since World War II Affluence and Suburbanization Television Television Transforms Sports Roone Arledge, ABC and the Rise of Televised Sport Sports and Social Change A New Generation Political Retrenchment Cable and the Internet Chapter 16. Professional Team Sports in the Age of Television Early Days Pro Football's Golden Age Marketing Professional Team Sports The Woes of Baseball On the Diamond Professional Basketball on the Rise Players Get Involved Chapter 17. College Sports in the Age of Television The Economics of College Athletics Evolution of a Cartel College Football Goes Big-Time Recruiting Big-Time Teams College Basketball Enters the National Spotlight Chapter 18. Racial Revolution Jackie Robinson and the Politics of Restraint Widening Opportunities Muhammad Ali The Olympic Project for Human Rights Latino Athletes Step Up Native Americans Protest "Indian" Mascots Activism for Athletes: The End of the Reserve Clause Chapter 19. Women's Liberation Small Steps Women's Liberation and Title IX Losing the Fight for Independence Billie Jean King and the Women's Tennis Association Public Image Conservative Retrenchment Chapter 20. All Sports All the Time Cable Television NASCAR Baseball Reaches Out to Latinos Nike and the NBA Selling Women's Sports Chapter 21. Sports in the Twenty-First Century Youth Sports The College "Arms Race" Professionals and Performance-Enhancing Drugs The NFL and CTE Away from the Field Who Should Be a Mascot? Who Is an American? Who Is a Woman?
