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  • The Stadium

    An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play

    de Frank Andre Guridy ...
    The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life.Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Sports Revolution

    How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

    de Frank Andre Guridy ...
    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Forging Diaspora

    Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow

    de Frank Andre Guridy ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Cuba’s geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships nurtured by Afro-Cubans and black Americans helped to shape the political strategies of both ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

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  • Cooperstown Confidential

    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    de Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    de Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Leer más

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  • The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, From James Naismith to LeBron James

    de Doug Merlino ...
    The history of basketball contains all the drama inherent in America's long struggle with racial intolerance and quest for equality. In ten focused chapters that highlight characters both famous (Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird) and more obscure (John McLendon, Earl Lloyd, Holcombe Rucker), this book explores how what's happened on the basketball court has mirrored race ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sports in American Life

    A History

    de Richard O. Davies ...
    The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history.Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe ... Leer más

    $47.00 USD

  • The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett

    Maverick Entrepreneur of North American Sports

    de Denis M. Crawford ...
    One of the most influential sportsmen of the late 20th century, Johnny F. Bassett's marketing wizardry belied his impact on professional hockey and football. A Canadian showman with a Barnumesque flair for spectacle, Bassett challenged the orthodoxy of sports, building sporting utopias in the fatally flawed World Football League, World Hockey Association, and United States Football League. He ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • More Than Just a Game

    Sports in American Life Since 1945

    de Kathryn Jay ...
    Series series Columbia Histories of Modern American Life
    More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • National Pastime

    U.S. History Through Baseball

    de Martin C. Babicz, Thomas W. Zeiler ...
    From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each season, the linkages between baseball’s evolution and our nation’s history are undeniable. Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity – baseball has been held up as our national pastime: the single greatest ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Baseball Rebels

    The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America

    de Peter Dreier, Robert Elias ...
    Finalist for the 2023 Seymour MedalForeword INDIES Finalist in HistoryIn Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism and homophobia—that shaped society and worked their way into baseball’s culture, economics, and politics.Since baseball emerged in the mid-1800s to become America’s pastime, the nation’s battles over race, gender, and sexuality have ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Game Misconduct

    Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It

    de Evan F. Moore, Jashvina Shah ...
    A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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