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Steven A. Riess is Bernard Brommel Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author or editor of eleven books and the former editor of The Journal of Sport History.
Introduction / 1
C H A P T E R O N E : Urbanization, the Technological Revolution, and the Rise of Sport 13
Urban Reform and the Ideology of Sport / 16
Sport and Urban Space / 22
Sport and the Promotion of Public Pride / 28
The Technological Revolution and the Rise of Sport / 30
Sport and the Communications Revolution / 30
Sport and the Transportation Revolution / 35
Lights, Camera, Action / 38
Technological Innovations and Sports Equipment / 39
Conclusion / 44
CHAPTER TWO: Sport and Class 45
Sport and the American Elite / 47
The Elite Sports Club / 50
Thoroughbred Racing and the Jockey Clubs / 51
The Athletic Club / 53
Women and the Elite Sports Clubs / 56
The Country Club / 57
Sport and the Middle Class / 59
Middle-Class Sports Clubs / 63
Middle-Class Women / 67
Working-Class Sport / 70
The Working-Class Saloon / 75
Track-and-Field / 77
Blue-Collar Baseball / 79
Industrial Sport / 81
Working-Class Women’s Sport / 84
Conclusion / 85
C H A P T E R T H R E E : Sport, Ethnicity, and Race 87
The Old Immigrants / 88
British Americans / 88
Irish Americans / 90
German Americans / 99
The New Immigrants / 103
Jewish Americans / 105
Native Americans / 112
African Americans / 114
Asian Americans / 122
Conclusion / 123
C H A P T E R F O U R : Sport and the Educational Process 125
Sport and Higher Education / 126
Men’s Intercollegiate Athletics / 126
Football: The Big Game / 129
The Football Crisis of 1905–1906 and the Rise of the NCAA / 137
Women’s Collegiate Athletics / 141
Secondary School Sport / 144
Adult-Directed Youth Sport / 147
Conclusion / 152
C H A P T E R F I V E : Baseball and the Rise of Professional Sport 153
Thoroughbred Racing / 159
The Racetracks / 159
Reformers Close the Tracks / 162
Professional Baseball / 166
The Rise of the National League / 168
Baseball in the Early Twentieth Century / 175
The Ballparks / 181
The Ballplayers / 186
The Game in the Dead Ball Era / 186
The Black Sox Scandal / 189
Conclusion / 192
C H A P T E R S I X : American Sport in the International Arena 195
The Cultural Diffusion of Sport / 196
Sports and the Borderlands / 198
The Baseball Tours / 201
Hawaii / 205
China / 206
Japan / 208
The Philippines and American Imperialism / 212
American Sport in the Caribbean / 215
Cuba / 215
The United States and the Olympic Games / 219
The 1900 and 1904 Olympics and the Intercalated Games of 1906 / 221
The London Olympics of 1908 / 227
The 1912 Olympics at Stockholm / 228
The Inter-Allied Games and the 1920 Olympics / 230
Conclusion / 231
Bibliographical Essay / 234
Index / 273
Photographs follow pages 44 and 194
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