Sport in America
Subtitle: new historical perspectives
By: edited by Donald Spivey.
Contributors: Spivey, Donald.
Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture,; no. 12
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Sports -- United States -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [263]-264.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Horses and gentlemen : the cultural significance of gambling among the gentry of Virginia / T.H. Breen; value: Leisure time on the Southern plantation : the slaves' respite from constant toil, 1810-1860 / David K. Wiggins; value: Quantification and sport : the American Jockey Club, 1866-1867 : a collective bibliography / Melvin L. Adelman; value: Baseball in the small Ohio community, 1865-1900 / Carl M. Becker and Richard H. Grigsby; value: In the ring and out : professional boxing in New York, 1896-1920 / Steven A. Riess; value: Lefties and righties : the Communist Party and sports during the Great Depression / Mark Naison; value: White America views Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali / Frederic Cople Jaher; value: Women and sport / Stephanie L. Twin; value: Sports violence and social crisis / Peter Levin and Peter Vinten-Johansen; value: Black consciousness and Olympic protest movement, 1964-1980 / Donald Spivey.