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New York Sports : Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville, AK :
University of Arkansas Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction. New York City: Captial of Sports / Stephen H. Norwood; I. Baseball: The Era of the Subway Series; 1. The Yankees and Dodgers: The Glory Years, 1947
- 1957 / Steven A. Riess; 2. The Team That Time Forgot: The New York Giants of the 1950s in History and Memory / Henry D. Fetter; II. Football The Glamour and the Gore; 3. The New York Giants and Cold War Manhood: Pro Football in the Age of the Marlboro Man and the ICBM / Stephen H. Norwood; 4. Joe Namath: Player on and off the Field / Eunice G. Pollack
- III. Basketball The Ultimate Urban Sport5. From Basket Ball to Hoop Heroics: The City Game, 1891 to the Present / Dennis Gildea; IV. Racing: On the Track and in the Streets; 6. The New York City Marathon: Celebration of a City and the Back of the Pack / Maureen M. Smith; 7. "This Isn't the Sixth Race. This Is the Belmont" : The Belmont Stakes and the Rise and Fall of the ""Sidewalks of New York"" / Bennett Liebman and Henry D. Fetter; V. Sporting Spaces: Play in the Crowded City
- 8. New York City's First Ballparks: From the Origins of Paid Admissions to the Emergence of Yankee Stadium / Robert C. Trumpbour9. Municipal Golf in New York Citysince the 1960s: Courses for All Social Classes / George B. Kirsch; VI. Sport in the Multiethnic City: Jews and Italians; 10. During the Heyday of Jewish Sports in Gotham: The Case of CCNY, 1900
- 1970 / Jeffery S. Gurock; 11. Italians and Sport in New York City: The Road to Americanization / Gerald R. Gems; 12. Jewish Institutions and Women's Sport: New York City in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Linda J. Borish
- VII. Hangouts: Sporting Culture by Day and Night13. Boxing in Olde New York: Unforgettable Stillman's Gym / Mike Silver; 14. Toots Shor: Midcentury Icon and Monument to Sport and Booze / Daniel A. Nathan; Notes; Contributors; Index