Cargando…

Sports in American Life A History.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Davies, Richard O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Mu 4500
001 EBOOKCENTRAL_on1347028641
003 OCoLC
005 20240329122006.0
006 m o d
007 cr cnu||||||||
008 230209s2016 xx o ||| 0 eng d
040 |a EBLCP  |b eng  |c EBLCP  |d OCLCQ  |d EBLCP  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCL 
020 |a 9781118912546 
020 |a 1118912543 
035 |a (OCoLC)1347028641 
082 0 4 |a 796  |q OCoLC  |2 23/eng/20230216 
049 |a UAMI 
100 1 |a Davies, Richard O. 
245 1 0 |a Sports in American Life  |h [electronic resource] :  |b A History. 
260 |a Newark :  |b John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,  |c 2016. 
300 |a 1 online resource (680 p.). 
490 1 |a New York Academy of Sciences Ser. 
500 |a Description based upon print version of record. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sports in American Culture -- Sports and American History -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The Emergence of Organized Sports, 1607-1860 -- Games in Colonial New England -- Recreations in Southern Colonies -- The Revolutionary Era and Beyond -- The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters -- Racing by Land and Sea -- The Formative Years of Prizefighting -- Baseball: the Creation of "America's Game" -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Baseball: "America's Game" -- The Early Professional Era 
505 8 |a Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers -- Growing Pains -- Early Years of the Professional Game -- Emergence of the Modern Game -- The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Sports and the Emergence of Modern America, 1865-1920 -- Prizefighting Enters the Mainstream -- Sports and Social Class -- Strong Bodies and Devout Souls -- America's Greatest Athlete -- Organized Play for the Modern Era -- Interscholastic Sports -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Emergence of King Football, 1869-1920 -- The Early Years of College Athletics -- Football American Style -- Yale and the Creation of Football 
505 8 |a Football Moves West -- Football as Spectacle -- Football in Crisis -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The National Pastime: Baseball, 1890-1930 -- The 1890s: Years of Discord -- Ban Johnson and the American League -- The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach -- Masters of Strategy -- The Federal League Challenge -- Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of 1919 -- The Babe -- Baseball's Golden Age -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 1860-1945 -- The Early Years of Women's Sports -- The Demise of Women's Sports -- Helen and Trudy: America's First Women Sports Stars -- Babe: The Texas Tomboy 
505 8 |a Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks -- "The Instinctive Urge to Compete" -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Sports in the Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 -- Gee-Whiz: Sports Journalism during the 1920s -- Heroes for a Heroic Age -- Growing Pains: The National Football League -- Boxing Gains Respectability -- Baseball's Long Slump -- Seabiscuit: Sports Star for the Depression Era -- Baseball during the War Years -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Sports on Campus, 1920-1950 -- The Essential Myth of Big-Time College Athletics -- Football: Driving the Bus -- Football's Golden Age: The Twenties 
505 8 |a Knute Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football -- The Second Challenge to Big-Time Football -- Hoop Dreams -- Hoop Nightmares -- Notes -- Chapter 9: America's Great Dilemma -- The "Fight of the Century" -- Separate and Unequal: The Negro Leagues -- Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe -- Jackie -- In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson -- Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites -- The Baron and the Bear -- Notes -- Chapter 10: "The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat": Television Revolutionizes Sports -- The Formative Years of Sports Television -- Tale of the Tube: Boxing 
500 |a Professional Football Comes of Age 
590 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b Ebook Central Academic Complete 
655 0 |a Electronic books. 
758 |i has work:  |a Sports in American life (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCXDmm4g6VWJ7btyHKmYmwK  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Davies, Richard O.  |t Sports in American Life  |d Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2016  |z 9781118912379 
830 0 |a New York Academy of Sciences Ser. 
856 4 0 |u https://ebookcentral.uam.elogim.com/lib/uam-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7104218  |z Texto completo 
938 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b EBLB  |n EBL7104218 
994 |a 92  |b IZTAP