Sports in American life: a history
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIX, 422 S. Ill. |
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List of Illustrations
xi
Preface
xiv
Acknowledgments
xx
1
The Emergence of Organized Sports,
1607-1860 1
Games in Colonial New England
2
Recreations in Southern Colonies
4
The Revolutionary Era and Beyond
8
The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters
10
Racing by Land and Sea
12
The Formative Years of Prizefighting
15
Baseball: The Creation of America s Game
20
2
Baseball: This Noble and Envigorating Game
24
The Early Professional Era
25
Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers
29
Growing Pains
30
Early Years of the Professional Game
33
Emergence of the Modern Game
36
The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor
38
3
The Formative Years of College Football
41
The Early Years of College Athletics
42
Football American Style
43
Yale and the Creation of Football
44
Football Moves West
49
viii Contents
Football
as Spectacle
51
Football in Crisis
54
4
The Modernization of American Sports,
1865-1920 60
Prizefighting Enters the Mainstream
61
Sports and Social Class
65
Strong Bodies and Devout Souls
68
America s Greatest Athlete
72
Organized Play for the Modern En
75
lnterscholastic Sports
77
5
Baseball Ascendant,
1890-1930 79
The 1890s: Years of Discord
80
Ban Johnson and the American League
81
The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach
83
Masters of Strategy
85
The Federal League Challenge
88
Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of
1919 90
The Babe
94
Baseball s Golden Age
98
6
Playing Nice: Women and Sports,
1860-1945 102
The Early Years of Women
s
Sports
103
The Demise of Women s Athletics
107
Helen and Trudy: America s First Women Sports Stars
109
Babe: The Texas Tomboy 111
Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks
115
7
An Evil To Be Endured : Sports on Campus,
1920-1950 118
The Essential Myth of Big-Time College Athletics
119
Football: Driving the Bus
121
Football s Golden Age: The Twenties
122
Knute
Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football
125
The Second Challenge to Big-Time Football
130
Hoop Dreams
133
Hoop Nightmares
135
8
Sports in an Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War,
1920-1945 138
Gee-Whiz: Sports Journalism during the
1920s 139
Heroes for a Heroic Age
141
Boxing Gains Respectability
144
Baseball s Long Slump
148
Contents ix
Seabiscuit: Sports
Star for the Depression Era
153
Baseball during the War Years
155
9
America s Great Dilemma
157
The Fight of the Century
158
Separate and Unequal: The Negro Leagues
162
Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe
166
Jackie
171
In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson
175
Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites
177
The Baron and the Bear
180
10
Television Changes the Image of American Sports
185
The Formative Years of Sports Television
186
Tale of the Tube: Boxing
188
Professional Football Comes of Age
191
Pete and Roone
193
Super Sunday and Monday Night
196
ESPN: All Sports, All the Time
200
11
College Sports in the Modern Era
204
The Sanity Code Is Scuttled
205
Creation of a Cartel
206
Emphasis and De-Emphasis
207
Woody and the Bear
208
Criticism of Major College Sports
213
Revenue vs Reform: An Unresolved Contradiction
220
College Sports as Big Business
223
12
Play for Pay
227
A Tale of Two (Football) Cities
227
Urban Relocation, Redevelopment, and Promotion
230
The Economics of Organized Baseball
232
Baseball s Labor Disputes
237
The Magic of Parity: The National Football League
240
The Wondrous World of Magic, Larry, and Michael
243
Always Turn Left: NASCAR Takes the Checkered Flag
247
Struggling To Be Major League
253
13
Do You Believe in Miracles?
255
The Cold War Shapes the Olympics
258
Television Transforms the Olympics
264
Contents
The Games
Must Go On
268
To Boycott or Not To Boycott
271
The Triumph of Professionalism
273
Athens and Beyond
276
14
The Persistent Dilemma of Race
278
I m the Greatest
280
Boycott, Backlash, and Beyond
284
Breakthrough: A New Era in American Sports
286
Hank Aaron Catches the Babe
293
Can White Men Jump?
2 95
Tiger
298
Sister Act: Venus and Serena
303
15
Playing Nice No Longer: Women s Sports,
1960-2010 308
Deceit and Deception: The NCAA and Gender Equity
309
Titanic Rivalry: Connecticut and Tennessee Basketball
314
Billie
Jean Sparks a Revolution
319
Viva America! World Cup Winners
322
You ve Come a Long Way Baby! Or Have You?
326
Title IX at Forty
328
16
Only in America!
331
Triumph of the Swoosh
332
The World of Jimmy the Greek
336
The Tragedy of Pete Rose
338
The Demise of Boxing
342
Iron Mike and the King of Boxing
344
Whatever It Takes
347
Under a Cloud: Barry Bonds Chases Hank Aaron
353
17
The Democratization of Sports
357
Community Cauldron: High School Sports
357
Youth Sports
361
Golf s Golden Age:
Arnie,
the Super
Мех,
and the Golden Bear
366
The Comeback Kids
370
Sidewalk Surfing and the Rise of X-treme Sports
375
Epilogue
382
Notes
387
Index
407
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