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Soccer in American Culture
The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status
Häftad, 2023
263 kr
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2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game’s Struggle for Status, G. Edward White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of soccer failed to take root in the United States when it spread from England around much of the rest of the …
Ballyhoo!
The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling
Av Jon Langmead
Inbunden, 2024
333 kr
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Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the “sport” as we know it. During this period, …
Schools for Scandal
The Dysfunctional Marriage of Division I Sports and Higher Education
Inbunden, 2024
339 kr
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For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education. This book chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA’s attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the …
Interstate '85
The Royals, The Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series
Inbunden, 2025
325 kr
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For 40 years now, the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals has been largely overlooked, save for the enduring notoriety of umpire Don Denkinger’s infamous missed call in Game 6 that helped galvanize a walk-off Royals victory that forced a Game 7, in which the …
Touching Home
Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America
Av Mary Craig
Inbunden, 2025
403 kr
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2026 Society for American Baseball Research Seymour Medal finalist Baseball’s relationship to American ideals has long been an object of study across disciplines. In Touching Home, Mary Craig contributes to this ongoing study by relating issues of class, race, and gender to America’s theoretical …
Breaking Babe Ruth
Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
Häftad, 2025
262 kr
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Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness …
St. Louis Baseball Reader
Volume 1
Häftad, 2022
279 kr
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The St. Louis Baseball Reader is a tale of two teams: one the city’s lovable losers, the other a formidable dynasty.The St. Louis Cardinals are the most successful franchise in National League history, while the St. Louis Browns were one of the least successful, yet most colorful, American League …
