A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70 (Sport and Society) - Softcover

Adelman, Melvin L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252061217 ISBN 13: 9780252061219

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1990

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About this title

About the Author:

 
Melvin L. Adelman was a sport historian at The Ohio State University.
 

From Library Journal:

This first work in a new series pictures New York as the dominant center during the period when the nation's modern sports emerged. The author concentrates on racing, baseball, track and field, and boxing, with less notice given to "leisure sports." His work is similar to but narrower in focus than Benjamin D. Rader's American Sports ( LJ 4/1/83). (Rader is an editor of the new series.) Using occupational profiles, Adelman weighs the earlier elitist tradition in sports versus the rising egalitarian influence and the emerging professionalism and commercialization. Though the book is interesting and easy reading, the scope will make it most valuable in research collections. Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Freehold, N.J.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0252061217
• ISBN 13: 9780252061219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408