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