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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rader, Benjamin G. American sports. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©2004 (DLC) 2003051198 (OCoLC)52092108 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin G Rader |
OCLC Number: | 647461498 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 373 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Sports in early America -- The setting for nineteenth-century sports -- The sporting fraternity and its spectacles -- The rise of America's national game -- Nineteenth-century sporting communities -- The rise of intercollegiate sports -- The rise of organized youth sports, 1880-1920 -- The setting for organized sports, 1890-1950 -- The age of sports heroes -- Baseball's golden age -- The intercollegiate football spectacle -- The club sports go public -- The rise and decline of organized women's sports, 1890-1960 -- The setting of organized sports since 1950 -- Professional team sports in the age of television -- College sports in the age of television -- American sports in a global arena -- The African American quest for equity in sports -- The quest for equity in women's sports -- The athletes -- American sports: a concluding statement. |
Responsibility: | Benjamin G. Rader. |
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