people's history of sports in the United States
Subtitle: from bull-baiting to Barry Bonds-- 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play
By: Dave Zirin.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595581006
Subjects: Sports -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Until the 20th century; title: Rough riding; title: Sports and leisure; title: No depression; title: War and its discontents; title: "Have we gone soft?"; title: Sports on the edge of panic; title: The flood gates; title: The 1980s : welcome to hell; title: C.R.E.A.M.; title: More of the same vs. change?