Title: A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70 (SPS)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 025201250X
ISBN 13: 9780252012501
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Ilonka Karasz
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Traces the development of modern sports in nineteenth-century New York, including baseball, cricket, horse and harness racing, yachting, billiards, and boxing, and describes the emergence of national standards and commercial involvement

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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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