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Myths and milestones in the history of sport / edited by Stephen Wagg.
- Title
- Myths and milestones in the history of sport / edited by Stephen Wagg.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Wagg, Stephen.
- Description
- xi, 315 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport takes as its starting point the need to go beyond 'newsreel' versions of the apparent turning points in sport history and to put them into a clear context. It explores a range of such watershed moments in a series of detailed and insightful studies. These moments include: the debate over the creation of particular sports; the beginnings of professional association football; the decline of amateur 'soccer'; the debate over violence in American football; the traditional throwing of the first pitch of an American baseball season by the President; the coming of male and female sport celebrity; the acknowledgement of a relationship between sport and politics; the arrival of drugs in sport; the clenched fist salute at the Olympic Games of 1968; the emergence of feminism in sport; the marriage of sport and television; the World Cup Final of 1966; and events seen mistakenly as turning points.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: myths and milestones in the history of sport / Stephen Wagg -- The invention of sporting tradition: national myths, imperial pasts and the origins of Australian rules football / Tony Collins -- From evil to expedient: the legalization of professionalism in English football, 1884-85 / Dave Russell -- Peacefully at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1974: the quiet death of amateur football in England / Dilwyn Porter -- Rough, manly sport and the American way: Theodore Roosevelt and college football, 1905 / Michael Oriard -- Baseball, invented tradition, and nationalistic spirit / Gerald R. Gems -- 'Her dainty strength': Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon and the coming of female sport celebrity / Stephen Watt -- Before and after 1968: reconsidering the introduction of drug testing in the Olympic Games / Ian Ritchie -- The 'Revolt of the Black athlete': Tommie Smith and John Carlos's 1968 Black Poser Salute reconsidered / Maureen Margaret Smith -- The D'Oliveira affair: Cricket, 'race' and politics / Rob Steen -- The physical activism of Billie Jean King / Jamie Schultz -- John L. Sullivan: the champion of all champions / Elliott J. Gorn -- The 'Packer affair' and the early marriage of television and sport / David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger -- All these years of hurt: culture, pedagogy and '1966' as a site of national myths / Michael L. Silk and Jessica Francombe -- The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics: birth of a new world? / Barbara Keys.
- ISBN
- 9780230241251 (alk. paper)
- 0230241255 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011016953
- OCLC
- 723528969
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library