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How sports have changed! At the end of our century, a baseball player won a contract that paid him several million dollars a year; a boxer consistantly earns millions of dollars for a single fight; a television network pays billions and billions to broadcast our national pastime.
Two distinguished cultural historians trace the evolution of American play from its English origins through the explosive and controversies of modern sports. From the eariest years, our attitudes about games have been played by major social and cultural forces, religious structures, industrialization, racial and gender discrimination, drug abuse, the growth of the cities, the power of money, and the rise of mass culture.
Two distinguished cultural historians trace the evolution of American play from its English origins through the explosive and controversies of modern sports. From the eariest years, our attitudes about games have been played by major social and cultural forces, religious structures, industrialization, racial and gender discrimination, drug abuse, the growth of the cities, the power of money, and the rise of mass culture.
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Elliott J. Gorn, who wrote The manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, teaches at Miami University of Ohio.
Warren Goldstein, author of Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, teaches at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.
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Warren Goldstein, author of Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, teaches at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.
The authors should have entitled their book A Brief Cultural History of American Sports. Gorn (Miami Univ. of Ohio) and Goldstein (SUNY-Old Westbury), both American studies professors, give a cultural overview of the way sports affect American society and how American society in turn shapes organized sports. One of the author's themes is that most sporting events evolved as social displays emphasizing white male domination and power, with violence, racial bias, sexism, and elitism as natural outgrowths. The text asserts that commercialization has corrupted sports, affected the educational system, and severely damaged the ideal of amateurism. Benjamin Rader's American Sports ( LJ 4/1/83) is a better history, but Gorn and Goldstein offer a rich source of discussion topics for American studies, sociology, or sports history classes.
- Terry Madden, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.
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- Terry Madden, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherHill and Wang
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0809015617
- ISBN 13 9780809015610
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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