A people's history of sports in the United States : 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play / Dave Zirin.
Zirin, Dave.
2009
GV706.35 .Z567 2009 (Mapit)
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Title A people's history of sports in the United States : 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play / Dave Zirin.
Author Zirin, Dave.
ISBN 9781595584779 (paperback)
1595584773 (paperback)
Imprint New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution : Distributed by Two Rivers Distribution ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2009.
Language English
Description xvii, 302 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number GV706.35 .Z567 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.0973
Summary Book Description: In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sports writing, whose blog "The Edge of Sports" is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin's eyes, sports are never mere games, but a reflection of - and spur toward - the political conflicts that shape American society. Half a century before Jackie Robinson was born, the black ballplayer Moses Fleetwood Walker brandished a revolver to keep racist fans at bay, then took his regular place in the lineup. In the midst of the Depression, when almost no black athletes were allowed on the U.S. Olympic team, athletes held a Counter Olympics where a third of the participants were African American.
Note Originally published: 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index.
Series New Press people's history.
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Series preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Until the twentieth century
Rough riding
Sports and leisure
No depression
War and its discontents
Have we gone soft?
Sports on the edge of panic
Flood gates
1980s: welcome to hell
C R E A M
More of the same versus change
Notes
Index.

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