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Jesse Owens
An American Life
Häftad, 2006
365 kr
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Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens used his astonishing drive and athletic ability to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He became an international superstar overnight and exploded Hitler’s myth of Aryan …
Waikiki Dreams
How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
Häftad, 2024
368 kr
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Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. …
Global Games
Av Maarten Van Bottenburg, Beverley Jackson
Inbunden, 2001
512 kr
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Why is soccer the sport of choice in South America while baseball soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India's national sport? Why is China a stronghold of table tennis? Maarten Van Bottenburg asserts that a hidden competition of social and international relations, rather …
Nazi Olympics
Häftad, 1987
500 kr
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The Nazi Olympics is the unsurpassed exposÉ of one of the most bizarre festivals in sport history. Not only does it provide incisive portraits of such key figures as Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Leni Riefenstahl, Helen Stephens, Kee Chung Sohn, and Avery Brundage, it also vividly conveys the entire …
Nazi Olympics
Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s
Av Anrd Krüger, William Murray
Inbunden, 2003
624 kr
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The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler’s Third Reich and international sporting competition. The Nazi Olympics gathers essays by modern scholars from prominent participating countries and lays out the issues--sporting as well as political--surrounding the …
Golf in America
Inbunden, 2008
320 kr
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In this concise social history of golf in the United States from the 1880s to the present, George B. Kirsch tracks the surprising growth of golf as a popular, mainstream sport, in contrast to the stereotype of golf as a pastime enjoyed only by the rich elite. In addition to classic heroes such as …
College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era
Inbunden, 2009
498 kr
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The Cold War era spawned a host of anxieties in American society, and in response, Americans sought cultural institutions that reinforced their sense of national identity and held at bay their nagging insecurities. They saw football as a broad, though varied, embodiment of national values. College …
End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
Inbunden, 2010
1317 kr
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This unique sports and labor history charts the revolutionary transformation of track and field over the past thirty years. In this time, the sport has changed from an amateur effort whose governing bodies unfairly controlled its athletes' lives to a professional arena in which athletes have the …
Qualifying Times
Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport
Inbunden, 2014
1409 kr
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This perceptive, lively study explores U.S. women's sport through historical "points of change": particular products or trends that dramatically influenced both women's participation in sport and cultural responses to women athletes. Beginning with the seemingly innocent ponytail, the subject of …
Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary
Inbunden, 2015
492 kr
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Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk follows …
Changing the Playbook
How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports
Inbunden, 2015
1206 kr
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"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain …
Team Chemistry
The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball
Inbunden, 2016
1241 kr
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In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the "pure" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry , he reveals a game splashed with spilled …
Wounded Lions
Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Crises in Penn State Athletics
Inbunden, 2016
1409 kr
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The Jerry Sandusky child molestation case stunned the nation. As subsequent revelations uncovered an athletic program operating free of oversight, university officials faced criminal charges while unprecedented NCAA sanctions hammered Penn State football and blackened the reputation of coach Joe …
Sex Testing
Gender Policing in Women's Sports
Inbunden, 2016
1241 kr
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In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender--a shift that allowed the organization to control the very idea of …
Game Faces
Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation
Inbunden, 2016
1142 kr
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Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers …
Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism
Av Matthew P Llewellyn, John Gleaves
Inbunden, 2016
1317 kr
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For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements. Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves analyze how this astonishing transformation …
Bloomer Girls
Women Baseball Pioneers
Inbunden, 2017
1451 kr
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Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. …
Revolt of the Black Athlete
Inbunden, 2017
354 kr
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The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new introduction and afterword revisit the revolts by …
Pigskin Nation
How the NFL Remade American Politics
Inbunden, 2018
1409 kr
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Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of America—and became a cultural force that recast …
Baseball
A History of America's Game
Inbunden, 2018
1496 kr
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In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also …
Hockey
A Global History
Av Stephen Hardy, Andrew C. Holman
Inbunden, 2018
1496 kr
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Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and …
Gold in the Rings
The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games
Av Stephen R Wenn, Robert Barney
Inbunden, 2020
1278 kr
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Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colossus powered by corporate sponsorship and professional participation. Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney offer the inside story of this transformation by examining the far-sighted leadership and …
Before March Madness
The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball
Inbunden, 2020
1451 kr
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Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges, and regional …
NFL Football
A History of America's New National Pastime
Inbunden, 2020
1496 kr
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The new NFL Centennial EditionA multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The …
Surf and Rescue
George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture
Inbunden, 2022
1317 kr
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The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. …
Beyond the Black Power Salute
Athlete Activism in an Era of Change
Inbunden, 2023
1278 kr
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Unequal opportunity sparked Jim Brown’s endeavors to encourage Black development while Billie Jean King fought so that women tennis players could earn more money and enjoy greater freedom. Gregory J. Kaliss examines these events and others to guide readers through the unprecedented wave of protest …
Dyed in Crimson
Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America
Av Zev Eleff
Inbunden, 2023
942 kr
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In 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university’s moribund football team. The pair instilled a fresh culture, one based on merit rather than social status, and in the virtues of honor and courage over mere winning. Yet …
Speed Capital
Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America
Inbunden, 2024
1451 kr
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How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked America’s car culture The 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing. Events at the famed track and others like it also helped launch America’s love affair with cars and …
Black Cyclists
The Race for Inclusion
Inbunden, 2024
1278 kr
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Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Robert J. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport’s early days through the cementing of Jim Crow laws during the Progressive …
Waikiki Dreams
How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
Inbunden, 2024
1451 kr
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Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. …
