Sports in American life a history

List of Illustrations xii     Acknowledgments xv     Introduction 1     Sports in American Culture 2     Sports and American History 3     Notes 6     1 The Emergence of Organized Sports, 1607   1860 7     Games in Colonial New England 8     Recreations in Southern Colonies 10     The Revolutionary Era and Beyond 14     The Democratization of Racing: The Trotters 17     Racing by Land and Sea 19     The Formative Years of Prizefi ghting 22     Baseball: The Creation of    America   s Game    27     Notes 31     2 Baseball:    America   s Game    33     The Early Professional Era 35     Henry Chadwick and a Game of Numbers 38     Growing Pains 40     Early Years of the Professional Game 42     Emergence of the Modern Game 46     The 1880s: A Decade of Rancor 48     Notes 51     3 Sports and the Emergence of Modern America, 1865   1920 53     Prizefi ghting Enters the Mainstream 54     Sports and Social Class 58     Strong Bodies and Devout Souls 62     America   s Greatest Athlete 66     Organized Play for the Modern Era 69     Interscholastic Sports 71     Notes 72     4 The Emergence of King Football, 1869   1920 74     The Early Years of College Athletics 75     Football American Style 76     Yale and the Creation of Football 78     Football Moves West 82     Football as Spectacle 85     Football in Crisis 87     Notes 94     5 The National Pastime: Baseball, 1890   1930 95     The 1890s: Years of Discord 96     Ban Johnson and the American League 98     The Cyclone and the Georgia Peach 100     Masters of Strategy 103     The Federal League Challenge 105     Crisis: Gamblers Fix the World Series of 1919 106     The Babe 112     Baseball   s Golden Age 116     Notes 118     6 Playing Nice: Women and Sports, 1860   1945 120     The Early Years of Women   s Sports 121     The Demise of Women   s Sports 126     Helen and Trudy: America   s First Women Sports Stars 127     Babe: The Texas Tomboy 129     Women Play Hardball: The Peaches and the Chicks 134        The Instinctive Urge to Compete    136     Notes 137     7 Sports in the Age of Ballyhoo, Depression, and War, 1920   1945 139     Gee Whiz: Sports Journalism during the 1920s 140     Heroes for a Heroic Age 143     Growing Pains: The National Football League 146     Boxing Gains Respectability 148     Baseball   s Long Slump 151     Seabiscuit: Sports Star for the Depression Era 157     Baseball during the War Years 160     Notes 161     8 Sports on Campus, 1920   1950 163     The Essential Myth of Big-Time College Athletics 163     Football: Driving the Bus 166     Football   s Golden Age: The Twenties 168     Knute Rockne and the Making of Notre Dame Football 171     The Second Challenge to Big-Time Football 176     Hoop Dreams 179     Hoop Nightmares 181     Notes 184     9 America   s Great Dilemma 185     The    Fight of the Century    186     Separate and Unequal: The Negro Leagues 190     Out of the Cotton Fields of Alabama: Jesse and Joe 194     Jackie 200     In the Shadow of Jackie Robinson 204     Gentlepeople and Sanctimonious Hypocrites 206     The Baron and the Bear 210     Notes 214     10    The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat   : Television Revolutionizes Sports 217     The Formative Years of Sports Television 218     Tale of the Tube: Boxing 221     Professional Football Comes of Age 223     Pete and Roone 225     Super Sunday and Monday Night Madness 229     ESPN: All Sports, All the Time 233     Notes 237     11 The Big Business of College Sports 239     The Sanity Code Is Scuttled 240     Creation of a Cartel 241     Emphasis and De-emphasis 242     Woody and the Bear 243     The Wizard of Westwood 249     Madness in March 254     The NCAA as Enforcer 256     Intercollegiate Athletics: Education or Big Business? 259     Turmoil, Realignment, and a Playoff System 263     The Futility of Reform 264     Trouble in Happy Valley 266     Notes 271     12 Play for Pay: Professional Sports in America 273     A Tale of Three Cities 273     Urban Relocation, Redevelopment, and Promotion 276     The Economics of Organized Baseball 278     Baseball   s Labor Disputes 284     The Magic of Parity: The National Football League 287     The Wondrous World of Magic, Larry, and Michael 291     Always Turn Left: NASCAR Takes the Checkered Flag 295     Beyond the Bright Lights: Hockey and Soccer 302     Notes 304     13 Do You Believe in Miracles? 306     The Cold War Shapes the Olympics 309     Television Transforms the Olympics 316     The Games Must Go On 320     To Boycott or Not to Boycott 323     The Triumph of Professionalism 325     Athens and Beyond 328     Notes 330     14 The Persistent Dilemma of Race 331        I   m the Greatest    333     Boycott, Backlash, and Beyond 337     Breakthrough: A New Era in American Sports 340     Hank Aaron Catches the Babe 347     Can White Men Jump? 349     Tiger 353     Sister Act: Venus and Serena 358     Notes 363     15 Playing Nice No Longer: Women   s Sports, 1960   2015 365     Deceit and Deception: The NCAA and Gender Equity 366     Titanic Rivalry: Connecticut/Tennessee Basketball 371     Billie Jean Sparks a Revolution 377     Viva America! World Cup Winners 381        You   ve Come a Long Way Baby!    Or Have You? 384     Title IX at Forty 387     Notes 389     16    Only in America!    391     Triumph of the Swoosh 392     The World of Jimmy the Greek 396     The Tragedy of Pete Rose 399     The Demise of Boxing 403     Iron Mike and the King of Boxing 405     Whatever It Takes 409     Under a Cloud: Barry Bonds Chases Hank Aaron 416     Notes 419     17 The Democratization of Sports 421     Community Cauldron: High School Sports 421     Youth Sports 425     Golf    s Golden Age: Arnie, the Super Mex, and the Golden Bear 430     A Tale of Two American Cyclists 436        Sidewalk Surfing    and the Rise of    X-treme    Sports 441     Notes 448     Epilogue 451     Notes 460     Index 462