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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Emergence of Organized Sports, 1607-1860 | |
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| Games in Colonial New England | |
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| Recreations in Southern Colonies | |
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| The Revolutionary Era and Beyond | |
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| The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters | |
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| Racing by Land and Sea | |
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| The Formative Years of Prizefighting | |
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| Baseball: The Creation of "America's Game" | |
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| Baseball: "This Noble and Envigorating Game" | |
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| The Early Professional Era | |
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| Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers | |
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| Growing Pains | |
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| Early Years of the Professional Game | |
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| Emergence of the Modern Game | |
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| The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor | |
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| The Formative Years of College Football | |
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| The Early Years of College Athletics | |
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| Football American Style | |
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| Yale and the Creation of Football | |
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| Football Moves West | |
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| Football as Spectacle | |
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| Football in Crisis | |
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| The Modernization of American Sports, 1865-1920 | |
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| Prizefighting Enters the Mainstream | |
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| Sports and Social Class | |
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| Strong Bodies and Devout Souls | |
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| America's Greatest Athlete | |
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| Organized Play for the Modern Era | |
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| Interscholastic Sports | |
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| Baseball Ascendant, 1890-1930 | |
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| The 1890s: Years of Discord | |
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| Ban Johnson and the American League | |
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| The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach | |
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| Masters of Strategy | |
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| The Federal League Challenge | |
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| Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of 1919 | |
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| The Babe | |
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| Baseball's Golden Age | |
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| Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 1860-1945 | |
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| The Early Years of Women's Sports | |
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| The Demise of Women's Athletics | |
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| Helen and Trudy: America's First Women Sports Stars | |
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| Babe: The Texas Tomboy | |
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| Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks | |
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| "An Evil To Be Endured": Sports on Campus, 1920-1950 | |
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| The Essential Myth of Big-Time College Athletics | |
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| Football: Driving the Bus | |
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| Football's Golden Age: The Twenties | |
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| Knute Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football | |
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| The Second Challenge to Big-Time Football | |
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| Hoop Dreams | |
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| Hoop Nightmares | |
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| Sports in an Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 | |
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| Gee-Whiz: Sports Journalism during the 1920s | |
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| Heroes for a Heroic Age | |
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| Boxing Gains Respectability | |
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| Baseball's Long Slump | |
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| Seabiscuit: Sports Star for the Depression Era | |
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| Baseball during the War Years | |
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| America's Great Dilemma | |
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| The "Fight of the Century" | |
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| Separate and Unequal: The Negro Leagues | |
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| Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe | |
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| Jackie | |
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| In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson | |
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| Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites | |
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| The Baron and the Bear | |
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| Television Changes the Image of American Sports | |
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| The Formative Years of Sports Television | |
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| Tale of the Tube: Boxing | |
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| Professional Football Comes of Age | |
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| Pete and Roone | |
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| Super Sunday and Monday Night | |
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| ESPN: All Sports, All the Time | |
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| College Sports in the Modern Era | |
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| The Sanity Code Is Scuttled | |
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| Creation of a Cartel | |
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| Emphasis and De-Emphasis | |
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| Woody and the Bear | |
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| Criticism of Major College Sports | |
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| Revenue vs Reform: An Unresolved Contradiction | |
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| College Sports as Big Business | |
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| Play for Pay | |
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| A Tale of Two (Football) Cities | |
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| Urban Relocation, Redevelopment, and Promotion | |
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| The Economics of Organized Baseball | |
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| Baseball's Labor Disputes | |
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| The Magic of Parity: The National Football League | |
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| The Wondrous World of Magic, Larry, and Michael | |
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| Always Turn Left: NASCAR Takes the Checkered Flag | |
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| Struggling To Be Major League | |
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| Do You Believe in Miracles? | |
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| The Cold War Shapes the Olympics | |
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| Television Transforms the Olympics | |
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| The Games Must Go On | |
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| To Boycott or Not To Boycott | |
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| The Triumph of Professionalism | |
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| Athens and Beyond | |
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| The Persistent Dilemma of Race | |
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| "I'm the Greatest" | |
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| Boycott, Backlash, and Beyond | |
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| Breakthrough: A New Era in American Sports | |
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| Hank Aaron Catches the Babe | |
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| Can White Men Jump? | |
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| Tiger | |
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| Sister Act: Venus and Serena | |
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| Playing Nice No Longer: Women's Sports, 1960-2010 | |
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| Deceit and Deception: The NCAA and Gender Equity | |
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| Titanic Rivalry: Connecticut and Tennessee Basketball | |
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| Billie Jean Sparks a Revolution | |
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| Viva America! World Cup Winners | |
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| "You've Come a Long Way Baby!" Or Have You? | |
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| Title IX at Forty | |
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| "Only in America!" | |
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| Triumph of the Swoosh | |
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| The World of Jimmy the Greek | |
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| The Tragedy of Pete Rose | |
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| The Demise of Boxing | |
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| Iron Mike and the King of Boxing | |
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| Whatever It Takes | |
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| Under a Cloud: Barry Bonds Chases Hank Aaron | |
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| The Democratization of Sports | |
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| Community Cauldron: High School Sports | |
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| Youth Sports | |
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| Golf 's Golden Age: Arnie, the Super Mex, and the Golden Bear | |
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| The Comeback Kids | |
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| "Sidewalk Surfing" and the Rise of "X-treme" Sports | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |