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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Urbanization, the Technological Revolution, and the Rise of Sport | |
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| Urban Reform and the Ideology of Sport | |
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| Sport and Urban Space | |
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| Sport and the Promotion of Public Pride | |
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| The Technological Revolution and the Rise of Sport | |
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| Sport and the Communications Revolution | |
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| Sport and the Transportation Revolution | |
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| Lights, Camera, Action | |
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| Technological Innovations and Sports Equipment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sport and Class | |
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| Sport and the American Elite | |
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| The Elite Sports Club | |
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| Thoroughbred Racing and the Jockey Clubs | |
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| The Athletic Club | |
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| Women and the Elite Sports Clubs | |
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| The Country Club | |
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| Sport and the Middle Class | |
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| Middle-Class Sports Clubs | |
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| Middle-Class Women | |
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| Working-Class Sport | |
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| The Working-Class Saloon | |
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| Track-and-Field | |
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| Blue-Collar Baseball | |
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| Industrial Sport | |
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| Working-Class Women's Sport | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sport, Ethnicity, and Race | |
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| The Old Immigrants | |
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| British Americans | |
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| Irish Americans | |
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| German Americans | |
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| The New Immigrants | |
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| Jewish Americans | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| African Americans | |
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| Asian Americans | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sport and the Educational Process | |
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| Sport and Higher Education | |
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| Men's Intercollegiate Athletics | |
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| Football: The Big Game | |
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| The Football Crisis of 1905-1906 and the Rise of the NCAA | |
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| Women's Collegiate Athletics | |
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| Secondary School Sport | |
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| Adult-Directed Youth Sport | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Baseball and the Rise of Professional Sport | |
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| Prizefighting | |
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| Thoroughbred Racing | |
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| The Racetracks | |
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| Reformers Close the Tracks | |
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| Professional Baseball | |
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| The Rise of the National League | |
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| Baseball in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| The Ballparks | |
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| The Ballplayers | |
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| The Game in the Dead Ball Era | |
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| The Black Sox Scandal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| American Sport in the International Arena | |
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| The Cultural Diffusion of Sport | |
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| Sports and the Borderlands | |
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| The Baseball Tours | |
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| The Diffusion of American Sport in the Pacific | |
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| Hawaii | |
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| China | |
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| Japan | |
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| The Philippines and American Imperialism | |
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| American Sport in the Caribbean | |
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| Cuba | |
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| The United States and the Olympic Games | |
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| The 1900 and 1904 Olympics and the Intercalated Games of 1906 | |
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| The London Olympics of 1908 | |
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| The 1912 Olympics at Stockholm | |
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| The Inter-Allied Games and the 1920 Olympics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |
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| Photographs follow pages 44 and 194 | |