Sports in American life : a history /

"This new edition...of American sports history makes use of the very latest research and now includes updated and expanded coverage of major sporting events since 2006, extreme sports, and women in sports"--provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davies, Richard O., 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Edition:2nd ed.
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505 0 |a 1. The Emergence of Organized Sports, 1607-1860 -- 2. Baseball: "This Noble and Envigorating Game" -- 3. The Formative Years of College Football -- 4. The Modernization of American Sports, 1865-1920 -- 5. Baseball Ascendant, 1890-1930 -- 6. Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 1860-1945 -- 7. "An Evil To Be Endured": Sports on Campus, 1920-1950 -- 8. Sports in an Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 -- 9. America's Great Dilemma -- 10. Television Changes the Image of American Sports -- 11. College Sports in the Modern Era -- 12. Play for Pay -- 13. Do you believe in miracles? -- 14. The persistent dilemma of race -- 15. Playing nice no longer: women's sports, 1960-2010 -- 16. "Only in America!" -- 17. The democratization of sports. 
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