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This second volume presents 18 thought provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six distinct eras over the past 400 years.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Sober Mirth and Pleasant Poisons: Puritan Ambivalence Toward Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
Chapter 2. Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia
Chapter 3. Pedestrianism, Billiards, Boxing, and Animal Sports
Chapter 4. Cheating, Gender Roles, and the Nineteenth-Century Croquet Craze
Chapter 5. The National Game
Chapter 6. Sporting Life as Consumption, Fashion, and Display-The Pastimes of the Rich
Chapter 7. Creating America's Winter Golfing Mecca at Pinehurst, North Carolina: National Marketing and Local Control
Chapter 8. The Father of American Football
Chapter 9. The World War I American Military Sporting Experience
Chapter 10. In Sports the Best Man Wins: How Joe Louis Whupped Jim Crow
Chapter 11. Padres on Mount Olympus: Los Angeles and the Production of the 1932 Olympic Mega-Event
Chapter 12. Going to Bat for Jackie Robinson: The Jewish Role in Breaking Baseball's Color Line
Chapter 13. Toil and Trouble: A Parable of Hard Work and Fun
Chapter 14. Victory for Allah: Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, and American Society
Chapter 15. The Fight for Title IX
Chapter 16. Yearning for Yesteryear: Cal Ripken, Jr., The Streak, And the Politics of Nostalgia
Chapter 17. Manhood, Memory, and White Men's Sports in the American South
Chapter 18. The Whole World Isn't Watching (But We Thought They Were): The Super Bowl and U.S. Solipsism
About the author
David K. Wiggins, PhD, is director of the School of Recreation, Health and Tourism at George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia. Since earning his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1979, Wiggins has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in sport history at Kansas State University and George Mason University.
