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
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Richard O. Davies is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno. His books include Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century (Wiley, 2010), Sports in American Life: A History (Wiley, 2007, 2012), Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life (2001), and Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America (1998). Davies was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2013 and continues to pursue an active retirement.
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List of Illustrations xii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Sports in American Culture 2
Sports and American History 3
Notes 6
1 The Emergence of Organized Sports, 16071860 7
Games in Colonial New England 8
Recreations in Southern Colonies 10
The Revolutionary Era and Beyond 14
The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters 17
Racing by Land and Sea 19
The Formative Years of Prizefi ghting 22
Baseball: The Creation of America's Game 27
Notes 31
2 Baseball: America's Game 33
The Early Professional Era 35
Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers 38
Growing Pains 40
Early Years of the Professional Game 42
Emergence of the Modern Game 46
The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor 48
Notes 51
3 Sports and the Emergence of Modern America, 18651920 53
Prizefi ghting Enters the Mainstream 54
Sports and Social Class 58
Strong Bodies and Devout Souls 62
America's Greatest Athlete 66
Organized Play for the Modern Era 69
Interscholastic Sports 71
Notes 72
4 The Emergence of King Football, 18691920 74
The Early Years of College Athletics 75
Football American Style 76
Yale and the Creation of Football 78
Football Moves West 82
Football as Spectacle 85
Football in Crisis 87
Notes 94
5 The National Pastime: Baseball, 18901930 95
The 1890s: Years of Discord 96
Ban Johnson and the American League 98
The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach 100
Masters of Strategy 103
The Federal League Challenge 105
Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of 1919 106
The Babe 112
Baseball's Golden Age 116
Notes 118
6 Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 18601945 120
The Early Years of Women's Sports 121
The Demise of Women's Sports 126
Helen and Trudy: America's First Women Sports Stars 127
Babe: The Texas Tomboy 129
Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks 134
The Instinctive Urge to Compete 136
Notes 137
7 Sports in the Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War, 19201945 139
Gee Whiz: Sports Journalism during the 1920s 140
Heroes for a Heroic Age 143
Growing Pains: The National Football League 146
Boxing Gains Respectability 148
Baseball's Long Slump 151
Seabiscuit: Sports Star for the Depression Era 157
Baseball during the War Years 160
Notes 161
8 Sports on Campus, 19201950 163
The Essential Myth of Big-Time College Athletics 163
Football: Driving the Bus 166
Football's Golden Age: The Twenties 168
Knute Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football 171
The Second Challenge to Big-Time Football 176
Hoop Dreams 179
Hoop Nightmares 181
Notes 184
9 America's Great Dilemma 185
The Fight of the Century 186
Separate and Unequal: The Negro Leagues 190
Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe 194
Jackie 200
In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson 204
Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites 206
The Baron and the Bear 210
Notes 214
10 The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat: Television Revolutionizes Sports 217
The Formative Years of Sports Television 218
Tale of the Tube: Boxing 221
Professional Football Comes of Age 223
Pete and Roone 225
Super Sunday and Monday Night Madness 229
ESPN: All Sports, All the Time 233
Notes 237
11 The B...