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Speed Capital - Indianapolis Auto Racing And The Making Of Modern America

by Brian M. Ingrassia

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 How a speedway became a legendary sports site and sparked Americaâ€™s car cultureThe 1909 opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marked a foundational moment in the history of automotive racing.
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Touching Base - Professional Baseball And American Culture In The Progressive Era

by Steven A. Riess

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 Examines the myths and the realities, symbols, and rituals of "America's favorite pastime." This book details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball, exploring how debates over issues such as Sunday games, ballpark construction, and the promotion of the game were shaped by Progressive Era sensibilities.
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Beyond The Black Power Salute - Athlete Activism In An Era Of Change

by Gregory J. Kaliss

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 Unequal opportunity sparked Jim Brownâ€™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 that swept sports in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Leftist Theories Of Sport - A Critique And Reconstruction

by William J. Morgan

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 The degradation of modern sport--its commercialization, trivialization, widespread cheating, cult of athletic stars and celebrities, and manipulation by the media--has led to calls for its transformation. William J. Morgan constructs a critical theory of sport that shores up the weak arguments of past attempts and points a way forward to making sport more humane, compelling, and substantive. Drawing on the work of social theorists, Morgan challenges scholars and fans alike to explore new spaces in sport culture and imagine the rich cultural and political possibilities to be found in the pastimes we follow with such passion.
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Before March Madness - The Wars For The Soul Of College Basketball

by Kurt Edward Kemper

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 The dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-centuryâ€"and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Readers learn an innovative history of an overlooked era, looking at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.
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Viva Baseball! - Latin Major Leaguers And Their Special Hunger

by Samuel O. Regalado

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 Presents the racism, history and unique drive behind the changing roles of Latin baseball players.
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Before March Madness - The Wars For The Soul Of College Basketball

by Kurt Edward Kemper

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 The dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-centuryâ€"and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Readers learn an innovative history of an overlooked era, looking at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.
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Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary

by Robert F Burk

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 Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, this book offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career.
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Global Games

by Beverley Jackson e Maarten Van Bottenburg

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 Why is soccer the sport of choice in South America, while baseball has soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India's national sport, while China is a stronghold of table tennis? This book deals with these questions.
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The Nazi Olympics - Sport, Politics, And Appeasement In The 1930s

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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. This volume offers an analysis of Germany's preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler's racist ideals and expansionist ambitions.
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Kansas City Vs. Oakland - The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined An Era

by Matthew C. Ehrlich

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 <div>A driving ambition linked Oakland and Kansas City in the 1960s. Each city sought the national attention and civic glory that came with being home to professional sports teams. Their successful campaigns to lure pro franchises ignited mutual rivalries in football and baseball that thrilled hometown fans. But even Super Bowl victories and World Series triumphs proved to be no defense against urban problems in the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the fascinating history of these iconic sports towns. From early American Football League battles to Oakland''s deft poaching of baseball''s Kansas City Athletics, the cities emerged as fierce opponents from Day One. Ehrlich weaves a saga of athletic stars and folk heroes like Len Dawson, Al Davis, George Brett, and Reggie Jackson with a chronicle of two cities forced to confront the wrenching racial turmoil, labor conflict, and economic crises that arise when soaring aspirations collide with harsh realities.Colorful and thought-provoking, Kansas City vs. Oakland breaks down who won and who lost when big-time sports came to town.</div>
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Revolt Of The Black Athlete - 50th Anniversary Edition

by Harry Edwards

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 <div><i>The Revolt of the Black Athlete</i> 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 athletes like Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. At the same time, he engages with the struggles of a present still rife with racism, double-standards, and economic injustice. Again relating the rebellion of black athletes to a larger spirit of revolt among black citizens, Edwards moves his story forward to our era of protests, boycotts, and the dramatic politicization of athletes by Black Lives Matter. Incisive yet ultimately hopeful, <i>The Revolt of the Black Athlete</i> is the still-essential study of the conflicts at the interface of sport, race, and society.</div>
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Hockey - A Global History

by Andrew C. Holman e Stephen Hardy

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 <div>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 organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey''s "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport''s emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace ''em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.</div>
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Pigskin Nation - How The Nfl Remade American Politics

by Jesse Berrett

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 <div>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 politics in its own smashmouth image. Jesse Berrett explores pro football''s new place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL''s brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL''s gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity--all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL''s alchemy of presentation, television, and high-stepping style. An invigorating appraisal of a dynamic era, Pigskin Nation reveals how pro football created the template for a future that became our present.</div>
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Cold War Games - Propaganda, The Olympics, And U.S. Foreign Policy

by Toby C Rider

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 It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the US government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded A (c)migrA (c) organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States appropriated Olympic host cities to hype the American economic and political system while, behind the scenes, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent propaganda materials around the globe as the United States mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight the communist threat.
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Game Faces - Sport Celebrity And The Laws Of Reputation

by Sarah K. Fields

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 <div>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 Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows, decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws related to privacy, defamation, and publicity--areas pertinent to the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer alike. She also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart of issues separating individual rights from the public''s perceived right to know. A fascinating exploration of a still-evolving phenomenon, Game Faces is an essential look at the legal playing fields that influence our enjoyment of sports.</div>
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Saying It'S So - A Cultural History Of The Black Sox Scandal

by Daniel A. Nathan

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 The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in collective consciousness. This interdisciplinary cultural history focuses on how it has been represented and remembered by journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans.
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Qualifying Times - Points Of Change In U.S. Women'S Sport

by Jaime Schultz

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 Explores US 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. This book looks at the historical and sociological significance of now-common items such as sports bras and tampons and ideas.
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The Only True God - Early Christian Monotheism In Its Jewish Context

by James F. Mcgrath

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 A provocative reexamination of the shared monotheistic views of Jews and Christians in New Testament times
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Cheating The Spread - Gamblers, Point Shavers, And Game Fixers In College Football And Basketball

by Albert J. Figone

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 Discusses College sports' ignominious history of game fixing
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Golf And The American Country Club

by Richard J. Moss

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 The first book on the intertwined histories of the venerable game and controversial clubs
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Sports In Chicago

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 A wide-ranging history of Chicago sports
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Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me - The Writings Of John Wilkes Booth

by John Wilkes Booth

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 Constitutes a primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept.
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Extra Innings - Writing On Baseball

by Richard Peterson

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 In a series of astute reflections on baseball histories, biographies, personal reminiscences, and fiction, this title explores how baseball writers have generated and sometimes challenged the narrative myths of the sport and its players. It looks at the shifting balance of romance and fact in standard baseball histories.
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