Understanding American sports:
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2009
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 399 - 435 |
| Umfang: | X, 440 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780415443647 0415443644 9780415443654 0415443652 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Understanding American sports
Autor: Gems, Gerald R.
Jahr: 2009
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
VI
Introduction: or why do we need a book like this and what is it all about? 1
1 An introduction to the United States 13
2 The evolution of American sports 37
3 A nation of immigrants 61
4 The relevance of baseball 95
5 Football games 123
6 College sport 155
7 Physical education and sports in American schools 172
8 Professional sport: development and organization 190
9 Fitness and recreational sport 201
10 Sport and race 228
11 Women and sport: the long road to liberation 250
12 The cultural importance of sports heroes 297
13 Sport, media, consumption 335
14 Sport as big business 369
Glossary 383
Notes 390
Bibliography 399
Index 436
contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES
1.1 US map, 1902 14
1.2 Settled areas in New England c. 1660 19
1.3 Confederate Memorial 26
1.4 Maxwell Street Market, Chicago c. 1905 29
1.5 Girls school yard baseball game in Gary, Indiana c. 1920 30
2.1 Native American women in canoe race 39
2.2 Carlisle men s physical education class 40
2.3 Modern rodeo 49
3.1 Tenement houses 61
3.2 German Turnverein class, Chicago 1885 72
3.3 Children sledding 74
3.4 Boys boxing in front of Chicago Hebrew Institute gymnasium c. 1915 79
4.1 Baseball field 102
4.2 Baseball pitcher and hitter 103
4.3 Baseball player Babe Ruth 115
5.1 Football melee 133
5.2 Huddle 136
5.3 Running play 136
5.4 Sideline coach s instruction 137
5.5 Marching band 139
5.6 Cheerleading 140
5.7 Homecoming 148
6.1 North Central College homecoming parade 167
6.2 Crowning of the homecoming king and queen 169
10.1 Jack Johnson defeats Jim Jeffries, Reno 1910 234
10.2 Black Power salute at 1968 Olympics 243
11.1 Archery contest 260
11.2 Tennis match on Allen Field 261
11.3 Broadside of Annie Smith Peck 272
illustrations
11.4 Senda Berenson officiating at a Smith College basketball game, 1903 276
11.5 Bathing costumes, bathing beauties, 1905 285
11.6 Babe Didrikson 286
12.1 Pugilist Gene Tunney after being knocked down by Jack Dempsey 310
12.2 Joe DiMaggio with Marilyn Monroe 317
12.3 Billie Jean King 326
TABLES
3.1 Sport associations of immigrants 84
9.1 Sporting leisure activities 215
11.1 Women s participation in the Olympics 281
13.1 Hours spent watching TV 340
13.2 Fans of various sports 353
14.1 Sport rights fees for major sports 373
14.2 Sports advertising revenues 375
BOXES
1.1 Thomas Jefferson 22
1.2 The Star-spangled Banner 24
1.3 Runaway slave 25
1.4 How political machines work 28
1.5 The significance of the frontier in American history 31
2.1 Sports on the Lord s day 42
2.2 Bull baiting 43
2.3 Quaker views on sports and games 44
2.4 Gouging 48
2.5 Tavern entertainments 50
2.6 Washington Social Gymnasium 52
2.7 Pedestrian trials 53
2.8 On the role of sport clubs 54
2.9 Harry Edwards and the Revolt of the Black Athlete 58
2.10 Thrill of surfing 59
3.1 England as cradle of modern sport 65
3.2 The Americanization of British sports 67
3.3 Catholics as enemies 68
3.4 Turnen - its principles and practices 70
3.5 Daily life on the Prairie 76
3.6 Arrival in America 77
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3.7 Hull House g5
3.8 Catholics on the football field 83
3.9 The Pullman industrial recreation program 89
4.1 Invented traditions 97
4.2 Baseball player or president? 99
4.3 The great match 104
4.4 Theodore Roosevelt on amateurism 105
4.5 Baseball addiction 108
4.6 Fan loyalty 110
4.7 The popularity of the World Series 112
4.8 Baseball the American game 113
4.9 The soft side of baseball 116
4.10 The business of baseball 119
5.1 Football and the civilization process 125
5.2 Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) 127
5.3 Recruitment practices 131
5.4 Considerations of a college president 134
5.5 Football violence 138
5.6 Letter of a German exchange student: marching bands and cheerleaders 139
5.7 Cheerleaders as awards? 144
5.8 Football, masculinity, and politics 145
5.9 Football players as patriotic heroes 147
5.10 The little gifts to athletes 149
5.11 A black girls traveling soccer team 153
6.1 The income of a coach 158
6.2 The coach as demi-god 159
6.3 The reputation of a university 159
6.4 Critical questions 161
6.5 Alumnus donates millions 161
6.6 Hazing 163
6.7 Fame and ambition 164
6.8 Luxury for basketball players 164
6.9 The fans 166
6.10 Muscles as a fad 166
6.11 Homecoming at North Central College, Naperville 168
7.1 Gymnastics at the schools in Kansas City 174
7.2 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance 179
7.3 Activity rates in PE lessons 181
7.4 High school basketball as state religion 183
7.5 National Federation of State High School Associations 185
7.6 Sport and education 186
7.7 Pep rally 186
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7.8 Football and scholarships 168
7.9 Booster club 159
8.1 Salaries in the early phase of professionalization 190
8.2 Football and imagined communities 194
8.3 Mitchell Report 199
9.1 Sport for all 202
9.2 Black basketball 207
9.3 Children s sport is hard work and business 209
9.4 A star is born 210
9.5 Sport for all is not for all 211
9.6 National parks 219
9.7 Obesity and physical education 220
9.8 The American residential experience 220
9.9 Not without a car 224
10.1 A slave narrative 230
10.2 Tom Molyneaux, former slave and famous boxer 231
10.3 Racial equality in the boxing ring? 233
10.4 Race and boxing 235
10.5 Maya Angelou about Joe Louis 238
10.6 Discrimination: the situation of black athletes during the 1960s 241
10.7 The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) 242
10.8 Basketball stars - contested heroes? 245
11.1 On the proper occupations for women 251
11.2 Women s education 255
11.3 The foot of the Croquet Queen 258
11.4 Playing tennis in corsets 262
11.5 Female hunters 265
11.6 Barrel racing - a fast-growing women s professional sport 266
11.7 Louise Armaindo, the world champion female cyclist 269
11.8 A female pedestrian 270
11.9 Powder Puff Derby 273
11.10 Tennis, a game for black women 288
11.11 Women s Sports Foundation 293
11.12 Athletes as sexual objects 295
12.1 Celebrities, heroes, stars 299
12.2 Daniel Boone 300
12.3 Theodore Roosevelt and American football 303
12.4 Babe Ruth 306
12.5 Corbett defeats Sullivan 308
12.6 All-American athletes and teams 319
12.7 Jim Thorpe as place of remembrance 322
12.8 Sport as an arena for heroism 324
illustrations
12.9 Lombardian ethics 328
12.10 Muhammad Ali 330
12.11 Paternity: no laughing matter 331
13.1 A game of heroic proportions 336
13.2 Nascar Nation 343
13.3 Ashes over the stadium 355
13.4 Sport bars 359
13.5 Sport as a fantasy 361
13.6 Conflicts of sport journalists 366
14.1 Alex Rodriguez Gets $275 Million-give me a break! 377
14.2 Super Bowl advertising 378
14.3 The global media giants 379
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