Steven A. Riess is the Bernard Brommel Research Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University. His books include City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (1989), Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, Revised Edition (1999), and The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913 (2011), and Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920, Second Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

• Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1Steven A. RiessPart I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 111 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sport in America through 1865 13James C. Schneider2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865–1920 32Gerald R. Gems3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920–1960 60Ryan Swanson4 Sport Since the 1960s 84Russ CrawfordPart II Historical Processes and Sport 1075 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, and American Sport 109Mark Dyreson6 Urbanization and American Sport 130Joseph C. BigottPart III Major Team Sports 1537 Baseball Before 1920 155Leslie Heaphy8 Baseball Since 1920 177Rebecca T. Alpert9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football as Cultural History 202Kurt Edward Kemper10 Professional Football 221Anthony Santoro11 Basketball 246Aram GoudsouzianPart IV Major Individual Sports 26912 Boxing: The Manly Art 271Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith13 Golf and Tennis 292Robert Pruter14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on the Checkered Flag 313David N. Lucsko15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect and Prospects 334Alan S. KatchenPart V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 35716 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography 359Nicholas Evan Sarantakes17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: A Historiography 379Robert K. BarneyPart VI Sport and Social History 40318 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405Gerald R. Gems19 The African American Athlete 434Louis Moore20 Class and Sport 454Steven A. Riess21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness in American Sport 479Brian M. Ingrassia22 Women in American Sport History 500Linda J. BorishPart VII Sport and Capitalism 52123 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study of American Sports Business History 523J. Andrew Ross24 Sport and the Media 552James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577Robert C. TrumpbourPart VIII Sport and Culture 59926 Sport and American Religion 601Richard Kimball27 Not Always “Natural”: A Historiography of Sport in American Culture 615Kevin B. Witherspoon28 Sports Biographies 634Maureen SmithIndex 656