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23 produkter
Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago
1918-1941
Inbunden, 2025
567 kr
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Between World War I and World War II, women flocked to Chicago’s parks, playgrounds, and clubs, becoming enthusiastic participants, players, and fans of the games of the time. Robert Pruter’s Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago; 1918–1941, examines how the Windy City became home to …
American Marathon
Häftad, 1998
225 kr
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This volume covers the running boom of the early 1900s and the formation of the Irish, Italian and German running clubs in New York City, where for many the race served as a metaphor for their journeys to the US. It also looks at the contemporary role of corporate sponsorship.
Fastest Kid on the Block
The Marty Glickman Story
Häftad, 1999
230 kr
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The legendary voice of the New York Knicks, Giants, and Jets writes also of his years as a Syracuse football star and a track Olympian who was denied his chance to compete in the 1936 Olympics due to anti-Semitism in Berlin, where he was dropped from the 400 metre relay team.
Running with Pheidippides
Stylianos Kyriakides, the Miracle Marathoner
Av Nick Tsiotos
Inbunden, 2001
365 kr
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This text tells the true story of Stylianos Kyriakides who, against all odds, entered and triumphed in the 1946 Boston Marathon. Kyriakides ran not just to win, but to draw the world's attention to his home country, Greece, which had resisted Nazi occupation and was torn apart by civil war.
Shaping College Football
The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930
Inbunden, 2007
353 kr
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Shaping College Football is the story of the intercollegiate gridiron sport in the years immediately after World War I when the game underwent monumental changes that transformed it into one of America's fundamental sporting attractions and a commercial entity that would be recognizable to any …
1929 Bunion Derby
Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace Across America
Inbunden, 2014
295 kr
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On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the ""Bunion Derby"" by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-six …
Dolph Schayes and the Rise of Professional Basketball
Inbunden, 2014
321 kr
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Grundman presents readers with a portrait, the first of its kind, of Dolph Schayes - the star of the Syracuse Nationals basketball team during the 1950s and 1960s. Schayes may not have one of the most recognizable names in basketball history, but his accomplishments are staggering. He was named one …
When Running Made History
Häftad, 2018
290 kr
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Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian’s insight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 ""Austerity Olympics"" in London as a young spectator to working as a journalist in the Boston Marathon media center at …
Leveling the Playing Field
The Story of the Syracuse 8
Av David Marc
Häftad, 2023
289 kr
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Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to their white teammates; better medical …
Glory Bound
Black Athletes in a White America
Häftad, 1997
219 kr
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African-American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. ""Glory Bound"" brings together 11 essays that explore this complex topic by sports studies scholar David K. Wiggins. In his writings, Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to climb their …
New Cathedrals
Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction
Inbunden, 2006
411 kr
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Stadium construction has altered the physical landscape of many major metropolitan areas throughout North America and has had a profound psychological and economic impact on these urban centers. How athletic facilities have been constructed, from the ritual-centered beginning of stadium …
Joining the Clubs
The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945
Inbunden, 2015
602 kr
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How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, …
(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph
Av Rita Liberti, Maureen M. Smith
Inbunden, 2015
483 kr
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The winner of three gold medals in track at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Wilma Rudolph has been portrayed and remembered across a wide range of settings and sites over the past half-century. As an African American female born into poverty whose childhood disability left her temporarily unable to …
Invisible Seasons
Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports
Inbunden, 2017
855 kr
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In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made …
War of the Wheels
H. G. Wells and the Bicycle
Inbunden, 2017
788 kr
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Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells’s texts brim with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines …
Legends Never Die
Athletes and Their Afterlives in Modern America
Inbunden, 2017
667 kr
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With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball concentrates on what happens once these modern warriors meet their untimely demise. As athletes die, legends rise in their …
War of the Wheels
H. G. Wells and the Bicycle
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells’s texts brim with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines …
Fit for America
Major John L. Griffith and the Quest for Athletics and Fitness
Inbunden, 2018
706 kr
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Fit for America is at once an intellectual biography of Major John L. Griffith, one of the preeminent intercollegiate athletics administrators of the twentieth century, and an in-depth look at how athletics shaped national military preparedness in a time of war and anticommunist sentiment.Lindaman …
First Taste of Freedom
A Cultural History of Bicycle Marketing in the United States
Inbunden, 2018
706 kr
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The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in …
Race Across America
Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies
Inbunden, 2020
907 kr
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On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the …
When Running Made History
Inbunden, 2018
667 kr
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Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian’s insight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 ""Austerity Olympics"" in London as a young spectator to working as a journalist in the Boston Marathon media center at …
Horse Racing the Chicago Way
Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
Inbunden, 2022
1018 kr
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Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York …
Tarnished Rings
The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal
Av Robert Barney, Stephen Wenn m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
349 kr
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In late 1998 and the early months of 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was an organization in crisis. Revelations of a slush fund employed by Salt Lake City officials to secure votes from a number of IOC members in support of the city’s bid for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games invited …
