A Brief History of American Sports
by Gorn, Elliott J.Edition: Illus.
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary
Gorn and Goldstein show us where our games and pastimes came from, how they developed, and what they have meant to Americans. The great heroes of baseball and football are here, as well as the dramatic moments of boxing and basketball. Beyond this, the authors show us how sports fit into the larger contours of our past. A Brief History of American Sports reveals that from colonial times to the present, sports have been central to American culture, and a profound expression of who we are.
Author Biography
Warren Goldstein chairs the Department of History at the University of Hartford.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| America Becomes a Sporting Nation | |
| Colonists at Play | |
| "Virgin Land" | p. 3 |
| English Sports | p. 6 |
| The Virginia Ethic | p. 17 |
| The New England Way | p. 30 |
| The Middle Colonies | p. 37 |
| Sports and the New Nation | p. 42 |
| "Saints and Their Bodies": Sport Through 1860 | |
| The Adams Family | p. 47 |
| Victorian Culture and the Attack on Traditional Sports | p. 49 |
| The Beginnings of Modern American Sports | p. 64 |
| Muscular Christians and Brawny Brahmins | p. 81 |
| "Vigorous, Manly, Out-of-Door Sports": The Gilded Age | |
| "... Healthful and Invigorating Sports ..." | p. 98 |
| Sport and Society | p. 105 |
| The Rise of Mass Sports: Boxing and Baseball | p. 114 |
| Elite Sports | p. 129 |
| "The Strenuous Life" | p. 138 |
| Sport and its Discontents: The Twentieth Century | |
| Sports with a Mission: Football and Basketball | |
| Walter Camp and the Bureaucratization of the Strenuous Life | p. 153 |
| Football, Alumni, and the Control of the University | p. 164 |
| Progressives, Play, and Basketball | p. 169 |
| World War I: The Great Unifier | p. 177 |
| Play, Business, and Space: Sports and the Public Sphere | |
| Home Teams | p. 183 |
| Sports Heroes and Mass Culture | p. 188 |
| Gender and Sport | p. 197 |
| Racial Integration | p. 209 |
| Money, Television, Drugs, and the Win: Dilemmas of Modern Sports | |
| Amateur Ideals and Sporting Reality | p. 222 |
| Twentieth-Century Amateurism | p. 228 |
| The Impact of Television | p. 236 |
| The Historical Roots of the Drug Problem in Sports | p. 241 |
| Epilogue | p. 251 |
| Bibliographic Essay | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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