Sports in the Western world
By: William J. Baker.
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Sports -- History; Sports -- Europe -- History; Sports -- United States -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. [341]-355.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: From ritual to recreation : the beginnings of sport. The competitive impulse -- Organized Greek games -- The decline and fall of athletics -- Medieval people at play -- Sports in an expanding world : from the renaissance to the industrial revolution. The day of the scholar athlete -- Frowning Puritans -- New standards for old sports -- The birth of mass leisure -- Teams take the field : the emergence of team sports in the nineteenth century. Varieties of football -- Bats, balls, and business -- Boys of winter -- Individualism, rugged and refined -- In sunshine and shadow : sports in the age of conflict. The shaping of modern sports -- Days dark and golden.