A brief history of American sports
"Gorn and Goldstein show us where our games and pastimes came from, how they developed, and what they have meant to Americans. The great heroes of baseball and football are here, as well as the dramatic moments of boxing and basketball. Beyond this, the authors show us how sports fit into the larger contours of our past. A Brief History of American Sports reveals that from colonial times to the present, sports have been central to American culture, and a profound expression of who we are."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
1st ill. pbk View all formats and editions
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2004
History
xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780252071843, 0252071840
53021678
America becomes a sporting nation. Colonists at play
"Saints and their bodies": Sport through 1860
"Vigorous, manly, out-of-door sports': the Gilded Age
Sport and its discontents: the twentieth century. Sports with a mission: football and basketball
Play, business, and space: sports and the public sphere
Money, television, drugs, and the win: dilemmas of modern sports
Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1993