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American Sports

by: Rader, Benjamin G.

American Sports

by: Rader, Benjamin G.

ISBN 13:
9780130801128
ISBN 10:
0130801127
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/1999
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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The revised edition of this widely-acclaimed book offers a gracefully written, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. It gives special attention to the historical relationship between sports and such major social cleavages as class, race, ethnicity, gender, region and the power that sports have exercised in binding diverse peoples together.

PREFACE

vii

1 SPORTS IN EARLY AMERICA

(18)

Britain's Festive Culture

(3)

The Puritan Assault upon Britain's Festive Culture

(2)

"Lawful Sport" in New England and the Middle Colonies

(2)

Sporting Ways of the Southern Colonies

(5)

Backcountry Sporting Ways

(1)

Pastimes of the Revolutionary Era

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(2)

2 THE SETTING FOR NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPORTS

(15)

Conquering Space and Time

(2)

The New, Middle-Class Victorian Culture

(1)

From "Rational" Recreation to the Strenuous Life

(2)

A Victorian Counterculture

(3)

Enclaves of the Oppositional Culture

(3)

Nineteenth-Century Sporting Groups

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(2)

3 THE SPORTING FRATERNITY AND ITS SPECTACLES

(16)

John Cox Stevens: Wealthy Patron of Antebellum Sporting Spectacles

(2)

Pedestrianism, Rowing, and Billiards

(2)

Early History of American Prize fighting

(1)

Meanings of Prizefighting

(2)

Prizefighting in the Post-Bellum Era

(2)

Enter John L. Sullivan

(3)

Post-Bellum Thoroughbred Horse Racing

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(2)

4 THE RISE OF THE NATIONAL GAME

(15)

The Club-Based, Fraternal Game

(3)

Baseball as a Commercial Enterprise

(3)

The National League

(1)

The Players Revolt

(3)

Ethics and African Americans

(1)

Between the Foul Lines and in the Stands

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

5 NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPORTING COMMUNITIES

(16)

Ethnic Sporting Communities

(2)

Turner Societies

(2)

African American Sporting Communities

(1)

The Wealthy New York Sporting Community

(2)

The Quest for Elite Communities

(1)

The Formation of Athletic Clubs

(2)

Amateurism and Its Uses

(2)

Cricket Clubs and Country Clubs

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

6 THE RISE OF INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS

(17)

The First Intercollegiate Sport

(2)

Early Intercollegiate Baseball, Track, and Football

(2)

Walter Camp: Father of American Football

(4)

Football and the Making of College Communities

(3)

Football Becomes a Public Spectacle

(3)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(2)

7 THE RISE OF ORGANIZED YOUTH SPORTS, 1890-1920

(18)

The Social Context

(2)

The Cultural Context

100

(1)

Luther Halsey Gulick, Jr.

101

(3)

The Evolutionary Theory of Play

104

(2)

The Public Schools Athletic League

106

(2)

The Playground Movement

108

(1)

High School Sports

109

(4)

Conclusion

113

(1)

Notes

113

(3)

8 THE SETTING FOR ORGANIZED SPORTS, 1890-1950

116

(18)

The Media and Sports

116

(3)

The Consumer Culture

119

(1)

Islands of Pleasure

120

(3)

The Strenuous Life

123

(3)

Changing Ideals of Physical Beauty

126

(2)

An Age of Racial Segregation

128

(3)

Conclusion

131

(1)

Notes

131

(3)

9 THE AGE OF SPORTS HEROES

134

(19)

Babe Ruth

135

(5)

Red Grange

140

(3)

Jack Johnson

143

(3)

The Golden Age of Boxing

146

(5)

Conclusion

151

(1)

Notes

151

(2)

10 BASEBALL'S GOLDEN AGE

153

(20)

Baseball's Coming of Age

153

(4)

The Age of the Pitcher

157

(1)

Ty Cobb

158

(2)

Organized Baseball's Quest for Order

160

(2)

The Black Sox Scandal and the Reign of Kenesaw Mountain Landis

162

(3)

An Age of Team Dynasties

165

(5)

Black Baseball

170

(1)

Conclusion

171

(1)

Notes

171

(2)

11 INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL SPECTACLES

173

(18)

The Critical Era

174

(3)

The Formation of Conferences

177

(3)

The Issue of Brutality

180

(1)

The Revolution of 1906

181

(2)

The Growing Popularity of Intercollegiate Football

183

(4)

Continuing Intercollegiate Controversies

187

(2)

Conclusion

189

(1)

Notes

189

(2)

12 THE CLUB SPORTS GO PUBLIC

191

(17)

Tennis Goes Public

192

(3)

Golf Goes Public

195

(3)

The Emperor, Bobby Jones

198

(2)

Track and Field

200

(1)

The Revived Olympic Games

201

(5)

Conclusion

206

(1)

Notes

206

(2)

13 THE RISE OF ORGANIZED WOMEN'S SPORTS

208

(16)

The Athletic Girl

208

(3)

Early Women's Basketball

211

(2)

The Arrival of Women Sports' Heroes

213

(3)

The War over Turf and Principles

216

(3)

The Rise and Decline of Women's Softball and Baseball

219

(3)

Conclusion

222

(1)

Notes

222

(2)

14 THE SETTING OF ORGANIZED SPORTS SINCE 1950

224

(17)

The Sprawling Metroplises

224

(3)

The Inner City and the Suburbs

227

(3)

The Self and the Fitness Cult

230

(2)

The Advent of Televised Sports

232

(3)

The Battle of the Networks

235

(3)

The Social Role of the Media

238

(1)

Conclusion

239

(1)

Notes

240

(1)

15 PROFESSIONAL TEAM SPORTS

241

(20)

The Woes of Baseball

241

(3)

Responses of the Big Leagues

244

(1)

The Demise of Dynasties

245

(3)

The Early Days of Pro Football

248

(2)

The Making of Pro Football

250

(3)

The Golden Age of Pro Football

253

(2)

Packaging Pro Football for Television

255

(1)

Professional Basketball

256

(3)

Conclusion

259

(1)

Notes

259

(2)

16 COLLEGE SPORTS IN A NATIONAL ARENA

261

(17)

The NCAA Becomes a Cartel

261

(2)

The Soaring Popularity of College Football

263

(3)

Joining the Top Ten

266

(3)

College Basketball Enters the National Arena

269

(2)

The Rising Popularity of College Basketball

271

(2)

The Triple Crisis

273

(3)

Conclusion

276

(1)

Notes

276

(2)

17 AMERICAN SPORTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA

278

(16)

The Politics of the Olympic Games

279

(3)

The Escalation for the Stakes

282

(5)

Television and the Ascent of Golf

287

(3)

Tennis--Open to All

290

(3)

Conclusion

293

(1)

Notes

293

(1)

18 THE QUEST FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN SPORTS

294

(12)

The Origins of Desegregation

294

(3)

Rickey and Robinson Integrate the National Game

297

(2)

Muhammad Ali

299

(2)

The Black Athletic Revolt

301

(2)

The Continuation of Discrimination

303

(2)

Conclusion

305

(1)

Notes

305

(1)

19 THE QUEST FOR EQUITY IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

306

(12)

Continuing Issues in Women's Sports

306

(2)

The Impetus for Change

308

(2)

Rising Hopes and Expectations

310

(3)

Resistance to Equity in Women's Sports

313

(3)

Conclusion

316

(1)

Notes

316

(2)

20 THE ATHLETES

318

(18)

Heroes and Celebrities

319

(2)

Interleague Competition for Players

321

(2)

The Player Associations

323

(2)

Free Agency

325

(3)

The Implications of the New Status

328

(2)

Youth Athletes

330

(3)

Conclusion

333

(1)

Notes

334

(2)

21 AMERICAN SPORTS

336

(2)

PHOTO CREDITS

338

(1)

INDEX

339

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