Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Huddled Masses
Introduction
Immigration and the Emergence of Modern Sport in America
Basketball and Urban Space
Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing
American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement
America and the Modern Olympic Movement
Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games
The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris
The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World's Fair
Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry, and the 1908 London Games

Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games
Baseball and American Empire
Foreigners to Fans
Cannons in the Outfield
Baseball's World Tours
Conjuring the National Pastime
Notes
Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe
2 In Service of the State
Introduction
The Growing Business of Baseball
Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media
The Negro Leagues and Baseball's Continued Growth Abroad
Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport
Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America
Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist 1920s and 1930s

The Olympics and War
Olympic Growth in the 1920s and 1930s
Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
US Sport in the Second World War
Notes
Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
3 The Dawn of the Activist Athlete
Introduction
Postwar Professional Sport in America
The NFL Sets the Edge
The Making of the NBA
Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after the Second World War
Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War
The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights
Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War

Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport
Muhammad Ali v. United States
Cold War Competitions and the Arrival of the Activist Athlete
Sport across the Iron Curtain
Drugs, Sex, and Gender
American Credibility, Mal Whitfield, and the 1968 Olympics
Notes
Athlete Spotlight #3: Althea Gibson
4 New Frontiers in Player Empowerment
Introduction
Sport and the End of the Cold War
Diplomacy and Sport in Cold War China
US National Sport before and after the 1972 Munich Games
Ice and Mortar
Social Justice Takes Center Court

Arthur Ashe, Apartheid, and the ATP
Billie Jean King and Gender Boundaries in Sport
Global Sport Capitalism
MLB, Globalization, and the Making of the Free Agent
The Doctor, Air Jordan, and the Global Rise of the NBA
Notes
Athlete Spotlight #4: Carl Lewis
5 Into the Twenty-First Century
Introduction
The Highs and Lows of Global Sport Stardom
The Tiger Effect
"I'm Sorry You Don't Believe in Miracles"
US Professional Sport after the American Age
Wither Baseball?
From Yao to the Eurostep
Global Football or American Fútbol?