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The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York : the rise and fall of the winged fists, 1898-1917 /
"New York's Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. The I-AAC laid claim to the title of best athletic club in the world following the 1908 Olympic Games, bent the rules on amateurism and challenged the ban on Sunday entertainments, before succumbing to aftereffects...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The "staid" and the "poor man's" Athletic Clubs; 2. "For the encouragement of manly sports and exercises ... of the Irish-American Athlete": The First and Second I-AAC; 3. "The 'Mecca' of attraction for every proud son and fair daughter of Erin": The Building of Celtic Park; 4. "Our name is the Irish-American Athletic Club": The I-AAC and Other Ethnicities; 5. "An overwhelming success numerically and financially": Establishing the GNYIAA between 1898 and 1904.
- 6. "A roistering carefree set of hellions": The Irish Immigrant Athlete and the I-AAC7. "The banner organization of the United States": St. Louis and Onwards, 1904-1906; 8. "The social element in Clubs is like 'dry rot'": Snobbery and the American Athletic Club; 9. "The first, if not the foremost, athletic club in the world": The I-AAC between 1906 and 1908; 10. "If you see an Irish head, hit it": The I- AAC and Accusations of Professionalism; 11. "You carry the Stars and Stripes proudly!" The I-AAC Athletes at the 1908 Olympics.
- 12. "Blood stirred by its games and sports": The I-AAC and Promoting Irish Sport and Identity in America13. "Condemned for wholesale proselyting": The I-AAC Growth Between 1908 and 1912; 14. "Such shameful spectacles would never be permitted in pious New York": The I-AAC: Policemen, Politicians and Sabbatarians; 15. "In spite of depressing conditions": The Beginning of the End of the I-AAC (1912-1916); 16. "Service first, athletics afterward": The I-AAC Finally Closes; 17. "Perhaps we shall again see the day"; Glossary of Athletic Events; Appendix: Irish-American Athletic Club Team Honors.