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Author: Michael Leo Donovan
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781589790346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating and insightful look at the legends, facts, and fiction behind your favorite sports teams' names.
Author: Murray Sperber
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2014-07-29
Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13: 146687645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's Onward to Victory is a brilliant, detailed, and engrossing work of social history for not only sports fans, but anyone interested in the development of modern American culture. With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts, letters and diaries, historical papers, and interviews with many who were there, Murray Sperber recounts how the myths created by Hollywood studios were embellished and codified by a hungry press, infiltrating the collective unconscious with epic stories of players, coaches, and teams. As college sports became a mainstay of popular entertainment, they also were fertile ground for near-fatal scandal, ultimately giving rise to the modern NCAA. Sperber vividly re-creates the world of postwar America, with its all-powerful radiomen, its lurid press, its growing prosperity, and, of course, the infancy of television
Author: Jeffrey A. Kroessler
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0231518277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. Fully illustrated, The Greater New York Sports Chronology covers the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball, the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests, and today's New York City Marathon. Alongside great moments like the Mets' "amazin'" World Series win in 1969, Joe Louis's historic bouts with Max Schmeling, Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line, and Secretariat's remarkable Triple Crown win at Belmont, we encounter the point-shaving scandals of college basketball and the corrupting influence of organized crime in professional boxing. Beyond immortals like Lou Gehrig and Joe Namath, we also find such once well known figures as Joe Lapchick, Marty Glickman, Gertrude Ederle, and Toots Shor. Year by year, this chronology recounts chess matches, America's Cup races, dog shows, golf tournaments, polo matches, tennis games, and more. Kroessler describes the historic venues, boxing arenas, gyms, stadiums, ballparks, and racetracks that have come and gone, yet made New York the undisputed capital of American sport. Witnessing it all, of course, are the greatest fans in the world.
Author: Bert Ford
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chris Jaffe
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-03-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0786457430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their performance and tendencies. Rather than focusing solely on in-game tactical decisions, it also analyzes broader, off-the-field management issues such as handling players, fans, and media, enforcing team rules, working with the front office, and balancing pressure versus performance.
Author: Frederick M. Wirt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0520311523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems. Power is divided among traditional and new minorities, a mayor with modest authority, and a large city bureaucracy guided by insensitive professional norms. The special San Francisco "politics of profit" and ethnic conflict are complicated and profoundly influenced by such external forces as regional, state, and federal government, and by the force of a national economy. Frederick Wirt's fascinating study is based on personal interviews with knowledgeable observers and participants, on an extensive review of special reports, and on a firsthand study of the transaction patterns in the political, business, labor, ethnic, and historical life of the city. In the end, the 125-year political history of San Francisco provides solid new insights on the politics of large American cities in the 1970s. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author: C. John Sparling
Publisher: Chicago : M.A. Donohue
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian W. Kelly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2022-12-22
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1669857883
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Author: Dennis A. Connole
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780761839835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDennis "Joe" Connole was an ordinary soldier. He spent four years, three months, and seventeen days in the U.S. Army during World War II. From March 1942 until December 1943, he was a member of the 26th "Yankee" Division on Coast Patrol duty in Maine. In early 1944, Joe Connole shipped out to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), where he joined the 36th "Texas" Division as a replacement: thus, a "Yankee" in the "Texas Army." In June 1944, he received a Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds inflicted in Italy.
Author: Steven J. L. Taylor
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-09-03
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780791439203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how citizens and the political leadership of two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools.
