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Major Problems in American Sport History

by: Riess, Steven

Major Problems in American Sport History

by: Riess, Steven

ISBN 13:
9780669353808
ISBN 10:
0669353809
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/17/1996
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

Each topic in this text is covered by both secondary readings and a wide variety of primary source documents, including legal decisions, diary entries, newspaper reports, literary accounts, government hearings, and advertisements for athletic equipment.

CHAPTER 1 What Is Sport History?

(20)

ESSAYS

(16)

Elliott J. Gorn

Michael Oriard

Taking Sports Seriously

(2)

Allen Guttmann

Capitalism, Protestantism, and the Rise of Modern Sport

(10)

Stephen Hardy

Urbanization and the Rise of Sport

(4)

FURTHER READING

(2)

CHAPTER 2 Sport in Colonial America

(28)

DOCUMENTS

(9)

King James I Identifies Lawful Sports in England, 1618

(2)

Restrictive Sabbath Statutes of Colonial Massachusetts, 1658

(1)

A Henrico County, Virginia, Horse Race Contract, 1698

(2)

An Englishman's Positive Impressions of Virginia Racing, 1772

(1)

Elkanah Watson's Misgivings on Cockfighting, 1787

(1)

George Catlin Describes a Choctaw Lacrosse Match, c. 1830s

(4)

ESSAYS

(17)

Timothy H. Breen

The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia

(8)

Nancy Struna

The Sporting Life in Puritan America

(9)

FURTHER READING

(1)

CHAPTER 3 Traditional Sport, Modern Sport, and the Male Bachelor Subculture, 1800-1860

(33)

DOCUMENTS

(12)

A Traveler Belittles Hunting in Virginia, 1799, and the Carolinas, 1800

(1)

James Hall Depicts a Low-life Billiard Parlor, 1828

(1)

The Great Foot Race of 1835

(2)

Horace Greeley Decries the Slaughter of Boxer Thomas McCoy, 1842

(2)

A Policeman Visits the Dissipated Rat Pits of Boston, c. 1860

(1)

The New York Herald Reports on "The Great Contest: Fashion v. Peytona," 1845

(5)

ESSAYS

(19)

Elliott J. Gorn

The Social Significance of Gouging in the Southern Backcountry

(8)

Melvin L. Adelman

Harness Racing: The First Modern American Sport, 1825-1870

(11)

FURTHER READING

(1)

CHAPTER 4 The Making of a Modern Sporting Culture, 1840-1870

(30)

DOCUMENTS

(11)

Thomas W. Higginson Analyzes the American Clergy and Their Need for Physical Fitness, 1858

(2)

Catharine Beecher Criticizes Women's Frailty and Recommends What Should Be Done About It, 1855

(2)

American Agriculturist Applauds Ladies on Horseback, 1862

(1)

The New York Times Recommends Skating at Central Park, 1859

(2)

The New York Herald Compares Cricket and Baseball, 1859

(3)

The Spirit of the Times Examines the Founding of the New York Athletic Club, 1868

(1)

ESSAYS

(16)

Linda J. Borish

Catharine Beecher and Thomas W. Higginson on the Need for Physical Fitness

(9)

George B. Kirsch

Baseball Spectators, 1855-1870

103

(7)

FURTHER READING

110

(2)

CHAPTER 5 Sport and Higher Education in America, 1865-1910

112

(28)

DOCUMENTS

113

(8)

The New York Times Reports on an International Match: The Harvard-Oxford Boat Race, 1869

113

(1)

Coach Walter Camp on Sportsmanship, 1893

114

(2)

Richard Harding Davis Scrutinizes the Rituals of the Thanksgiving Day Football Game, 1893

116

(2)

Henry Beach Needham Decries the Professionalization of College Athletes, 1905

118

(3)

ESSAYS

121

(18)

Ronald A. Smith

Amateurism in Late Nineteenth-Century College Sports

121

(7)

Robin D. Lester

The Rise of the Spectator, the Coach, and the Player at the University of Chicago, 1895-1905

128

(11)

FURTHER READING

139

(1)

CHAPTER 6 Sport and the Rise of the Industrial Radial City, 1870-1920

140

(29)

DOCUMENTS

141

(10)

The New York Times Evaluates the Accessibility and Utility of Central Park, 1873, 1875

141

(1)

The New York Clipper on the Opening of Jerome Park Race Track and the Revitalization of the Turf, 1866

142

(2)

The New York Clipper Reports on the Astley Belt Race of 1879

144

(2)

The New York Times Lauds Baseball and Community Pride, 1888

146

(1)

The New York Times Considers Madison Square Garden as a Civic Institution, 1900

147

(1)

Harper's Weekly Examines New York City's Athletic Clubs, 1892

148

(3)

ESSAYS

151

(16)

Stephen Hardy

Parks for the People: The Rise of Public Parks in Boston, 1869-1900

151

(8)

Steven A. Riess

Professional Sports and New York's Tammany Machine, 1890-1920

159

(8)

FURTHER READING

167

(2)

CHAPTER 7 Sport and Class, 1870-1920

169

(36)

DOCUMENTS

170

(10)

Caspar W. Whitney Probes the Evolution of the Country Club, 1894

170

(3)

The Chicago Daily News Describes a Paradise for Hunters, 1895

173

(2)

Philip G. Hubert, Jr., Reflects on the Bicycle: The Marvel of Its Day, 1895

175

(1)

The Spirit of the Times Denigrates the Printer's Benevolent Association Games, 1887

176

(2)

Charles J. Lucas Criticizes the Commercialization of Amateur Athletics, 1906

178

(2)

ESSAYS

180

(24)

Donald Mrozek

Sporting Life as Consumption, Fashion, and Display-The Pastimes of the Rich at the Turn of the Century

180

(8)

Steven A. Riess

Sport and the Redefinition of American Middle-Class Masculinity, 1840-1900

188

(10)

Ted Vincent

Working-Class Runners in the Late Nineteenth Century

198

(6)

FURTHER READING

204

(1)

CHAPTER 8 The Commercialization and Professionalization of Sports, 1870-1920

205

(34)

DOCUMENTS

207

(16)

The National Police Gazette Indicts Wyatt Earp as Crooked Referee, 1896

207

(1)

Rene Bache Computes the Cost of a Day at the Races, 1906

208

(3)

Josiah Flynt Delineates the Evils of Off-Track Poolrooms, 1907

211

(2)

Harper's Weekly Describes the New Chicago Baseball Grounds, 1883

213

(2)

The New York Sun's Portrayal of a Typical Baseball Crowd, 1884

215

(1)

John Montgomery Ward Asks, "Is the Base-ball Player a Chattel?"

216

(2)

H. Addington Bruce Analyzes Baseball and the National Life, 1913

218

(3)

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Explains Why Baseball Is Not Subject to Antitrust Laws, 1922

221

(1)

Sears, Roebuck Catalogue Sports Equipment Advertisements, 1897

222

(1)

ESSAYS

223

(14)

Harold Seymour

The Creation of the National League in 1876

223

(7)

Michael Isenberg

The Sullivan-Corbett Championship Fight of 1892 and the Modernization of Ring Promotion

230

(7)

FURTHER READING

237

(2)

PHOTOGRAPH ESSAY Uniforming Sportswomen

239

(5)

CHAPTER 9 Gender and Sport in Modern America, 1870-1920

244

(34)

DOCUMENTS

245

(14)

Woodrow Wilson Supports Football and Its Promotion of Manliness, 1894

245

(1)

Theodore Roosevelt Examines How Sport Makes Boys Into Men, 1900

246

(1)

Eleanor Waddle Reports on the Rise of the Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club, 1889

247

(3)

Anne O'Hagan Describes the Athletic American Girl, 1901

250

(3)

Senda Berenson Asserts the Value of Adapted Women's Basketball, 1901

253

(2)

Dr. Dudley A. Sargent Asks, "Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine?", 1912

255

(3)

A Female Fan Tells Her Beau, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," 1908

258

(1)

ESSAYS

259

(18)

Elliott J. Gorn

Manliness in the Squared Circle

259

(8)

Roberta J. Park

Sport, Gender, and Society in the Late Nineteenth Century

267

(10)

FURTHER READING

277

(1)

CHAPTER 10 Race and Ethnicity in American Sport, 1890-1940

278

(31)

DOCUMENTS

279

(11)

The Chicago Daily News Describes the Quadrennial National Turner Festival, 1893

279

(1)

The National Police Gazette Supports the Rise of Italian Boxing, 1905

280

(1)

Richard Henry Pratt Encourages Indian Sportsmanship, c. 1894

281

(1)

The Outlook's Dismay with Indian Sportsman Jim Thorpe and the Forfeiture of His Olympic Medals, 1913

281

(2)

Prejudice Against African-American Ballplayers in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1911

283

(1)

James "Cool Papa" Bell Remembers Negro League Baseball in the 1920s and 1930s

284

(3)

The Chicago Commission on Race Relations Examines Racial Contacts in Recreation in the Late 1910s

287

(3)

ESSAYS

290

(17)

Randy Roberts

The 1910 Jeffries-Johnson Fight and Its Impact

290

(9)

Peter Levine

Basketball and the Jewish-American Community, 1920s-1930s

299

(8)

FURTHER READING

307

(2)

CHAPTER 11 Sports Heroes and American Culture, 1890-1940

309

(29)

DOCUMENTS

311

(13)

Burt Standish's Dick Merriwell Saves the Game, 1909

311

(1)

Commonweal Memorializes Christy Matthewson, a Real-Life Merriwell, 1925

312

(1)

The Black Sox Scandal and the Fallen Hero: The Confession of Joe Jackson, 1920

313

(4)

Grantland Rice on John L. Sullivan and Babe Ruth as Prowess Heroes, 1925

317

(2)

Grantland Rice Describes the Heroic Qualities of Bobby Jones and Helen Wills, 1928

319

(3)

Congressman Louis Stokes Eulogizes His Hero, Jesse Owens, 1980

322

(2)

ESSAYS

324

(13)

Roderick Nash

Sports Heroes of the 1920s

324

(5)

Chris Meade

Joe Louis as Emerging Race Hero in the 1930s

329

(8)

FURTHER READING

337

(1)

CHAPTER 12 Sport and American Women Since 1930

338

(32)

DOCUMENTS

339

(15)

The Saturday Evening Post Examines Women's Softball in World War II America

339

(3)

Billie Jean King Remembers Life as an Outsider in the 1950s and 1960s

342

(4)

Powerlifter Tammy Thompson Identifies the Dangers of Steroids, 1987

346

(1)

Baylor University Athletic Director Grant Teaff Criticizes the Impact of Title IX on Intercollegiate Football, 1993

347

(2)

Attorney Ellen J. Vargyas Analyzes the Inadequacies of Title IX, 1992

349

(5)

ESSAYS

354

(15)

Susan E. Cayleff

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The "Texas Tomboy"

354

(6)

Susan Cahn

Women Competing/Gender Contested, 1930s-1950s

360

(9)

FURTHER READING

369

(1)

CHAPTER 13 Sport and Race in America Since 1945

370

(30)

DOCUMENTS

371

(13)

Yankees President Larry McPhail's Plan to Discourage Integration of Baseball, 1946

371

(2)

Jackie Robinson on the Struggles of His First Spring Training, 1946

373

(3)

The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile, c. 1967

376

(2)

Harry Edwards Reviews the Making of the Black Athletic Revolt, 1967

378

(3)

Arthur Ashe on Propositions 42 and 48, c. 1980s

381

(3)

ESSAYS

384

(15)

Jules Tygiel

A Lone Negro in the Game: Jackie Robinson's Rookie Season

384

(6)

Michael Oriard

Muhammad Ali: The Hero in the Age of Mass Media

390

(9)

FURTHER READING

399

(1)

CHAPTER 14 The Business of Sport, 1945-1990

400

(35)

DOCUMENTS

401

(16)

Ike Williams Testifies on the Corruption of Boxing in the Late 1940s

401

(7)

Norris Poulson Reveals How Los Angeles Got the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1958

408

(3)

Justice Thurgood Marshall Dissents in the Curt Flood Case, 1972

411

(1)

Marvin Miller Analyzes the Achievement of Free Agency, 1975

412

(3)

Mayor Lionel J. Wilson Explains Why Oakland Needs the Raiders, 1984

415

(2)

ESSAYS

417

(17)

Randy Roberts

James Olson

The Impact of Roone Arledge on Televised Sports

417

(8)

Charles C. Euchner

The Making of Baltimore's Camden Yards Stadium

425

(9)

FURTHER READING

434

(1)

CREDITS

435

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Major Problems in American Sport History

Major Problems in American Sport History

9780669353808

0669353809

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