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The Chicago sports reader : 100 years of sports in the windy city
- Title
- The Chicago sports reader : 100 years of sports in the windy city / edited by Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-2710 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 368 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sports and society
- Uniform Title
- Sports and society.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the history of sports in Chicago / Steven A. Riess -- Horse racing in Chicago, 1883-1894: the interplay of class, politics, and organized crime / Steven A. Riess -- When Chicago was wheel crazy / George D. Bushnell -- The car race of the century / Cord Scott -- The rise of the spectator, the coach, and the player, 1895-1905 / Robin Dale Lester -- Black entrepreneurship in the national pastime: the rise of semiprofessional baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915 / Michael E. Lomax -- News, narratives, and the Black Sox scandal: history's first draft / Daniel A. Nathan -- Red Grange and the Chicago Bears / John M. Carroll -- The Dempsey-Tunney fight / Bruce R. Evensen -- Entrepreneurship and the rise of the Chicago Blackhawks / John Chi-Kit Wong -- Blocked shot: the development of basketball in the African-American community of Chicago / Gerald R. Gems -- No freaks, no Amazons, no boyish bobs / Susan K. Cahn -- 1969 and the Chicago Cubs / David Claerbaut -- Bittersweet championships: Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls, and international sports marketing / Walter L. LeFeber.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-2710
- ISBN
- 9780252032813 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252032810 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252076152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 025207615X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008037209
- OCLC
- 244741480
- Title
- The Chicago sports reader : 100 years of sports in the windy city / edited by Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- Series
- Sports and societySports and society.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Riess, Steven A. EditorGems, Gerald R. Editor
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-2710