Sporting Days
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Author |
: John Colquhoun |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 1866 |
ISBN-10 |
: BNC:1001928727 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sporting Days by : John Colquhoun
Author |
: L. Jon Wertheim |
Publisher |
: Mariner Books |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781328637246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1328637247 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Glory Days by : L. Jon Wertheim
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.
Author |
: Tresham Gilbey |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 1893 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112112129694 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by : Tresham Gilbey
Author |
: Susan Brownell |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 490 |
Release |
: 2008-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780803210981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0803210981 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games by : Susan Brownell
One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World?s Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively. McGee recruited Natives who were participating in the fair?s ethnic displays to compete in sports events, with the ?scientific? goal of measuring the physical prowess of ?savages? as compared with ?civilized men.? This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World?s Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant. A turning point in both the history of the Olympics and the development of modern anthropology, these games expressed the conflict between the Old World emphasis on culture and New World emphasis on utilitarianism. Marked by Franz Boas?s paper at the Scientific Congress, the events in St. Louis witnessed the beginning of the shift in anthropological research from nineteenth-century evolutionary racial models to the cultural relativist paradigm that is now a cornerstone of modern American anthropology. Racist pseudoscience nonetheless reappears to this day in the realm of sports.
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Total Pages |
: 556 |
Release |
: 1911 |
ISBN-10 |
: SRLF:A0008523946 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 1870 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924056319803 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by :
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: |
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Total Pages |
: 716 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B2940825 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by :
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: Sampson Low |
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Total Pages |
: 1900 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015036924119 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Catalogue of Books by : Sampson Low
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author |
: Walter Campbell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1869 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433066594452 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Old Forest Ranger; Or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles, and on the Plains by : Walter Campbell
Author |
: Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433089893899 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library by : Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum