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:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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