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CHAPTER 1 What Is Sport History? |
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3 | (16) |
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3 | (2) |
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Capitalism, Protestantism, and the Rise of Modern Sport |
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5 | (10) |
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Urbanization and the Rise of Sport |
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15 | (4) |
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19 | (2) |
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CHAPTER 2 Sport in Colonial America |
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21 | (28) |
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22 | (9) |
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King James I Identifies Lawful Sports in England, 1618 |
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Restrictive Sabbath Statutes of Colonial Massachusetts, 1658 |
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A Henrico County, Virginia, Horse Race Contract, 1698 |
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An Englishman's Positive Impressions of Virginia Racing, 1772 |
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Elkanah Watson's Misgivings on Cockfighting, 1787 |
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27 | (1) |
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George Catlin Describes a Choctaw Lacrosse Match, c. 1830s |
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27 | (4) |
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31 | (17) |
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The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia |
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31 | (8) |
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The Sporting Life in Puritan America |
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39 | (9) |
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48 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 3 Traditional Sport, Modern Sport, and the Male Bachelor Subculture, 1800-1860 |
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49 | (33) |
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50 | (12) |
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A Traveler Belittles Hunting in Virginia, 1799, and the Carolinas, 1800 |
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James Hall Depicts a Low-life Billiard Parlor, 1828 |
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51 | (1) |
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The Great Foot Race of 1835 |
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52 | (2) |
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Horace Greeley Decries the Slaughter of Boxer Thomas McCoy, 1842 |
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54 | (2) |
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A Policeman Visits the Dissipated Rat Pits of Boston, c. 1860 |
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56 | (1) |
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The New York Herald Reports on "The Great Contest: Fashion v. Peytona," 1845 |
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57 | (5) |
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62 | (19) |
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The Social Significance of Gouging in the Southern Backcountry |
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62 | (8) |
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Harness Racing: The First Modern American Sport, 1825-1870 |
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70 | (11) |
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81 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 4 The Making of a Modern Sporting Culture, 1840-1870 |
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82 | (30) |
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83 | (11) |
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Thomas W. Higginson Analyzes the American Clergy and Their Need for Physical Fitness, 1858 |
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83 | (2) |
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Catharine Beecher Criticizes Women's Frailty and Recommends What Should Be Done About It, 1855 |
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85 | (2) |
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American Agriculturist Applauds Ladies on Horseback, 1862 |
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87 | (1) |
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The New York Times Recommends Skating at Central Park, 1859 |
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88 | (2) |
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The New York Herald Compares Cricket and Baseball, 1859 |
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90 | (3) |
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The Spirit of the Times Examines the Founding of the New York Athletic Club, 1868 |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (16) |
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Catharine Beecher and Thomas W. Higginson on the Need for Physical Fitness |
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94 | (9) |
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Baseball Spectators, 1855-1870 |
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103 | (7) |
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110 | (2) |
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CHAPTER 5 Sport and Higher Education in America, 1865-1910 |
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112 | (28) |
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113 | (8) |
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The New York Times Reports on an International Match: The Harvard-Oxford Boat Race, 1869 |
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113 | (1) |
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Coach Walter Camp on Sportsmanship, 1893 |
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114 | (2) |
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Richard Harding Davis Scrutinizes the Rituals of the Thanksgiving Day Football Game, 1893 |
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116 | (2) |
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Henry Beach Needham Decries the Professionalization of College Athletes, 1905 |
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118 | (3) |
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121 | (18) |
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Amateurism in Late Nineteenth-Century College Sports |
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121 | (7) |
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The Rise of the Spectator, the Coach, and the Player at the University of Chicago, 1895-1905 |
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128 | (11) |
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139 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 6 Sport and the Rise of the Industrial Radial City, 1870-1920 |
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140 | (29) |
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141 | (10) |
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The New York Times Evaluates the Accessibility and Utility of Central Park, 1873, 1875 |
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The New York Clipper on the Opening of Jerome Park Race Track and the Revitalization of the Turf, 1866 |
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142 | (2) |
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The New York Clipper Reports on the Astley Belt Race of 1879 |
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144 | (2) |
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The New York Times Lauds Baseball and Community Pride, 1888 |
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146 | (1) |
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The New York Times Considers Madison Square Garden as a Civic Institution, 1900 |
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147 | (1) |
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Harper's Weekly Examines New York City's Athletic Clubs, 1892 |
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148 | (3) |
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151 | (16) |
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Parks for the People: The Rise of Public Parks in Boston, 1869-1900 |
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151 | (8) |
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Professional Sports and New York's Tammany Machine, 1890-1920 |
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159 | (8) |
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167 | (2) |
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CHAPTER 7 Sport and Class, 1870-1920 |
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169 | (36) |
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170 | (10) |
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Caspar W. Whitney Probes the Evolution of the Country Club, 1894 |
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170 | (3) |
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The Chicago Daily News Describes a Paradise for Hunters, 1895 |
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173 | (2) |
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Philip G. Hubert, Jr., Reflects on the Bicycle: The Marvel of Its Day, 1895 |
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The Spirit of the Times Denigrates the Printer's Benevolent Association Games, 1887 |
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176 | (2) |
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Charles J. Lucas Criticizes the Commercialization of Amateur Athletics, 1906 |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (24) |
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Sporting Life as Consumption, Fashion, and Display-The Pastimes of the Rich at the Turn of the Century |
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180 | (8) |
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Sport and the Redefinition of American Middle-Class Masculinity, 1840-1900 |
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188 | (10) |
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Working-Class Runners in the Late Nineteenth Century |
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198 | (6) |
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204 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 8 The Commercialization and Professionalization of Sports, 1870-1920 |
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205 | (34) |
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207 | (16) |
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The National Police Gazette Indicts Wyatt Earp as Crooked Referee, 1896 |
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207 | (1) |
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Rene Bache Computes the Cost of a Day at the Races, 1906 |
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208 | (3) |
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Josiah Flynt Delineates the Evils of Off-Track Poolrooms, 1907 |
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211 | (2) |
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Harper's Weekly Describes the New Chicago Baseball Grounds, 1883 |
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213 | (2) |
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The New York Sun's Portrayal of a Typical Baseball Crowd, 1884 |
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John Montgomery Ward Asks, "Is the Base-ball Player a Chattel?" |
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H. Addington Bruce Analyzes Baseball and the National Life, 1913 |
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218 | (3) |
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Explains Why Baseball Is Not Subject to Antitrust Laws, 1922 |
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221 | (1) |
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Sears, Roebuck Catalogue Sports Equipment Advertisements, 1897 |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (14) |
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The Creation of the National League in 1876 |
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223 | (7) |
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The Sullivan-Corbett Championship Fight of 1892 and the Modernization of Ring Promotion |
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230 | (7) |
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237 | (2) |
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PHOTOGRAPH ESSAY Uniforming Sportswomen |
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239 | (5) |
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CHAPTER 9 Gender and Sport in Modern America, 1870-1920 |
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244 | (34) |
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245 | (14) |
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Woodrow Wilson Supports Football and Its Promotion of Manliness, 1894 |
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245 | (1) |
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Theodore Roosevelt Examines How Sport Makes Boys Into Men, 1900 |
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246 | (1) |
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Eleanor Waddle Reports on the Rise of the Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club, 1889 |
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247 | (3) |
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Anne O'Hagan Describes the Athletic American Girl, 1901 |
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250 | (3) |
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Senda Berenson Asserts the Value of Adapted Women's Basketball, 1901 |
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253 | (2) |
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Dr. Dudley A. Sargent Asks, "Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine?", 1912 |
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255 | (3) |
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A Female Fan Tells Her Beau, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," 1908 |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (18) |
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Manliness in the Squared Circle |
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259 | (8) |
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Sport, Gender, and Society in the Late Nineteenth Century |
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267 | (10) |
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277 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 10 Race and Ethnicity in American Sport, 1890-1940 |
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278 | (31) |
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279 | (11) |
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The Chicago Daily News Describes the Quadrennial National Turner Festival, 1893 |
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279 | (1) |
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The National Police Gazette Supports the Rise of Italian Boxing, 1905 |
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280 | (1) |
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Richard Henry Pratt Encourages Indian Sportsmanship, c. 1894 |
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281 | (1) |
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The Outlook's Dismay with Indian Sportsman Jim Thorpe and the Forfeiture of His Olympic Medals, 1913 |
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281 | (2) |
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Prejudice Against African-American Ballplayers in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1911 |
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283 | (1) |
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James "Cool Papa" Bell Remembers Negro League Baseball in the 1920s and 1930s |
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284 | (3) |
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The Chicago Commission on Race Relations Examines Racial Contacts in Recreation in the Late 1910s |
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287 | (3) |
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290 | (17) |
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The 1910 Jeffries-Johnson Fight and Its Impact |
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290 | (9) |
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Basketball and the Jewish-American Community, 1920s-1930s |
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299 | (8) |
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307 | (2) |
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CHAPTER 11 Sports Heroes and American Culture, 1890-1940 |
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309 | (29) |
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311 | (13) |
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Burt Standish's Dick Merriwell Saves the Game, 1909 |
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311 | (1) |
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Commonweal Memorializes Christy Matthewson, a Real-Life Merriwell, 1925 |
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312 | (1) |
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The Black Sox Scandal and the Fallen Hero: The Confession of Joe Jackson, 1920 |
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313 | (4) |
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Grantland Rice on John L. Sullivan and Babe Ruth as Prowess Heroes, 1925 |
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317 | (2) |
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Grantland Rice Describes the Heroic Qualities of Bobby Jones and Helen Wills, 1928 |
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319 | (3) |
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Congressman Louis Stokes Eulogizes His Hero, Jesse Owens, 1980 |
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322 | (2) |
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324 | (13) |
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Sports Heroes of the 1920s |
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324 | (5) |
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Joe Louis as Emerging Race Hero in the 1930s |
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329 | (8) |
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337 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 12 Sport and American Women Since 1930 |
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338 | (32) |
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339 | (15) |
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The Saturday Evening Post Examines Women's Softball in World War II America |
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339 | (3) |
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Billie Jean King Remembers Life as an Outsider in the 1950s and 1960s |
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342 | (4) |
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Powerlifter Tammy Thompson Identifies the Dangers of Steroids, 1987 |
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346 | (1) |
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Baylor University Athletic Director Grant Teaff Criticizes the Impact of Title IX on Intercollegiate Football, 1993 |
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347 | (2) |
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Attorney Ellen J. Vargyas Analyzes the Inadequacies of Title IX, 1992 |
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349 | (5) |
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354 | (15) |
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The "Texas Tomboy" |
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354 | (6) |
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Women Competing/Gender Contested, 1930s-1950s |
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360 | (9) |
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369 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 13 Sport and Race in America Since 1945 |
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370 | (30) |
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371 | (13) |
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Yankees President Larry McPhail's Plan to Discourage Integration of Baseball, 1946 |
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371 | (2) |
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Jackie Robinson on the Struggles of His First Spring Training, 1946 |
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373 | (3) |
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The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile, c. 1967 |
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376 | (2) |
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Harry Edwards Reviews the Making of the Black Athletic Revolt, 1967 |
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378 | (3) |
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Arthur Ashe on Propositions 42 and 48, c. 1980s |
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381 | (3) |
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384 | (15) |
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A Lone Negro in the Game: Jackie Robinson's Rookie Season |
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384 | (6) |
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Muhammad Ali: The Hero in the Age of Mass Media |
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390 | (9) |
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399 | (1) |
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CHAPTER 14 The Business of Sport, 1945-1990 |
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400 | (35) |
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401 | (16) |
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Ike Williams Testifies on the Corruption of Boxing in the Late 1940s |
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401 | (7) |
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Norris Poulson Reveals How Los Angeles Got the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1958 |
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408 | (3) |
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Justice Thurgood Marshall Dissents in the Curt Flood Case, 1972 |
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Marvin Miller Analyzes the Achievement of Free Agency, 1975 |
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412 | (3) |
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Mayor Lionel J. Wilson Explains Why Oakland Needs the Raiders, 1984 |
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415 | (2) |
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417 | (17) |
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The Impact of Roone Arledge on Televised Sports |
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417 | (8) |
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The Making of Baltimore's Camden Yards Stadium |
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425 | (9) |
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434 | (1) |
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