Sports in California.
Contributors: Book Club of California.
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 1986
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Sports -- California -- History.; Amusements -- California -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The birth of ski racing in the California gold rush; title: 3. Early California baseball; title: 4. Boxing; title: 5. Football; title: 6. Tug-of-war contest, 1894, San Francisco; title: 7. Ben Hur revisited; title: 8. The ethereal sport of ballooning; title: 9. The jumping frog contest; title: 10. Bull versus bear; title: 11. Polo in southern California; title: 12. Wild cheers broke loose.