Ellis Island to Ebbets Field Sport and the American Jewish Experience

by Levine, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780195085556
• ISBN10: 0195085558
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Filled with marvelous stories, anecdotes and personality profiles, this book explores the importance of sport--both watching and playing--as a middle ground for a minority culture actively determining for itself what it meant to be an American Jew. Photos.

Author Biography

Peter Levine is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball, American Sport: A Documentary History, and the editor of Baseball History, 1986-91.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
The Promise of Sport	p. 11
Basketball and Community	p. 26
Jews and Professional Basketball, 1900-1950	p. 52
"Allagaroo, Garoo, Gara": The College Game, CCNY, and the Scandals of 1950	p. 74
America's National Game	p. 87
Cohen at the Bat	p. 100
"Mantle, Schmantle, We Got Abie": Jews and Major League Baseball Between the Wars	p. 117
"Oy Such a Fighter!": Boxing and the American Jewish Experience	p. 144
"Fighting for All My People": Jewish Champions and American Heroes	p. 170
"Der Yiddisher Vildkat" and the "Hebrew Hillbilly": College Life and College Sport Between the Wars	p. 190
"My Father and I, We Didn't Get Our Medals": Marty Glickman's American Jewish Odyssey	p. 216
"Where Have You Gone, Hank Greenberg?": Sport and the American Jewish Experience Since World War II	p. 235
Conclusions	p. 270
Postscript: The Jewish Experience in Comparative Perspective	p. 281
Bibliographic Note	p. 286
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 319
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