The third edition of author Richard O. Davies’ highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history. Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe Paterno. Features extensive revisions and updates, along with a leaner, faster–paced narrative than previous editions Addresses the social, economic, and cultural interaction between sports and gender, race, class, and other larger issues Provides expanded coverage of college sports, women in sports, race and racism in organized sports, and soccer’s sharp rise in popularity Features an all–new section that tackles the growing controversy of head injuries and concussions caused by contact sports INDICE: Preface .Acknowledgements .1 The Emergence of Organized Sports, 1607–1860 .Games in Colonial New England .Recreations in Southern Colonies .The Revolutionary Era and Beyond .The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters .Racing by Land and Sea .The Formative Years of Prizefighting .Baseball: The Creation of America s Game .2 Baseball: America s Game .The Early Professional Era .Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers .Growing Pains .Early Years of the Professional Game .Emergence of the Modern Game .The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor .3 Sports and the Emergence of Modern America: 1864–1920 .Prizefighting Enters the Mainstream .Sports and Social Class .Strong Bodies and Devout Souls .America s Greatest Athlete .Organized Play for the Modern Era .Interscholastic Sports .4 The Emergence of King Football: 1869–1920 .The Early Years of College Athletics .Football American Style .Yale and the Creation of Football .Football Moves West .Football as Spectacle .Football in Crisis .5 The National Pastime: Baseball, 1890–1930 .The 1890s: Years of Discord .Ban Johnson and the American League .The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach .Masters of Strategy .The Federal League Challenge .Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of 1919 .The Babe .Baseball s Golden Age .6 Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 1860–1945 .The Early Years of Women s Sports .The Demise of Women s Sports .Helen and Trudy: .America s First Women Sports Stars .Babe: The Texas Tomboy .Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks . The Instinctive Urge to Compete .7 Sports in the Age of Ballyhoo, Depression and War 1920–1945 .Gee Whiz: Sports Journalism During the 1920s .Heroes for a Heroic Age .Growing Pains: The National Football League .Boxing Gains Respectability .Baseball s Long Slump .Seabisquit Sports Star for the Depression Era .Baseball During the War Years .8 Sports on Campus: 1920–1950 .The Essential Myth of Big–Time College Athletics .Football: Driving the Bus .Knute Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football .The Second Challenge to Big–Time Football .Hoop Dreams .Hoop Nightmares .9 America s Great Dilemma .The Fight of the Century .Separate and Unequal The Negro Leagues .Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe .Jackie .In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson .Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites .The Baron and the Bear .10 The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat: Television Revolutionizes Sports .The Formative Years of Sports Television .Tale of the Tube: Boxing .Professional Football Comes of Age .Pete and Roone .Super Sunday and Monday Night Madness .ESPN: All Sports All the Time .11 The Big Business of College Sports .The Sanity Code is Scuttled .Creation of a Cartel .Emphasis and De–Emphasis .Woody and the Bear .The Wizard of Westwood .Madness in March .The NCAA as Enforcer .Intercollegiate Athletics: Education or Big Business? .Turmoil, Realignment, and a Playoff System .The Futility of Reform .Trouble in Happy Valley .12 Play for Pay Professional Sports in America .A Tale of Three Cities .Urban Relocation, Redevelopment and Promotion .The Economics of Organized Baseball .Baseball s Labor Disputes .The Magic of Parity: The National Football League .The Wondrous World of Magic, Larry, and Michael .Always Turn Left: NASCAR Takes the Checkered Flag .Beyond the Bright Lights: Hockey and Soccer .13 Do Your Believe in Miracles? .The Cold War Shapes the Olympics .Television Transforms the Olympics .The Games Must Go On .To Boycott or Not to Boycott .The Triumph of Professionalism .Athens and Beyond .14 The Persistent Dilemma of Race . I m the Greatest .Boycott, Backlash, and Beyond .Breakthrough: A New Era in American Sports .Hank Aaron Catches the Babe .Can White Men Jump? .Tiger .Sister Act: Venus and Serena .15 Playing Nice No Longer: Women s Sports 1960–2015 .Deceit and Deception: The NCAA and Gender Equity .Titanic Rivalry: Connecticut and Tennessee Basketball .Billie Jean Sparks a Revolution .Viva America! World Cup Winners . You ve Come a Long Way Baby! or Have You? .16 Only in America! .The World of Jimmy the Greek .The Tragedy of Pete Rose .The Demise of Boxing .Iron Mike and the King of Boxing .Whatever It Takes .Under a Cloud: Barry Bonds Chases Hank Aaron .17 The Democratization of Sports .Community Cauldron: High School Sports .Youth Sports .Golf s Golden Age: Arnie, the Super Mex, and the Golden Bear .The Comeback Kids .Sidewalk Surfing and the Rise of X–treme Sports .
- ISBN: 978-1-118-91237-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 488
- Fecha Publicación: 13/07/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés