Cricket In America 1710 2000

Author : P. David Sentance
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786420407

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Cricket in America, 1710-2000 by P. David Sentance Pdf

Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York and Philadelphia faced each other as early as 1838. By 1865, Philadelphia was considered the best cricket-playing city in the United States, competing against Canadian, English and Australian teams from 1890 to 1920. This 30 year span was essential to the formation of America's sports identity--and by its end, while the sport of baseball drew increasing attention, the game of cricket moved from being the game of America's aristocrats to a safe haven for America's nonwhite immigrants who were excluded from baseball because of Jim Crow laws. Here, the game's unique multi-ethnic, religious and cultural tradition in the United States is fully explored. The author explains cricket's ties to the beginnings of baseball and covers the ways in which the game continues to play an important role in America's inner cities.

Author : Tom Melville
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476648842

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This Too Was America by Tom Melville Pdf

Cricket in America achieved its greatest acclaim, most extensive organization and highest level of competition in Philadelphia in the mid-19th century. The city took upon itself the burden of representing the entire U.S. during the sport's emerging international popularity. It was a story of amazing successes, abysmal failures and engaging personalities--like John B. King, revered to this day as one of the all-time greatest players--and eventual decline and demise. This meticulously researched history examines the origin and rise of a sport's legacy that, even in its demise, would endure as a lost vision of America's sporting destiny.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459477

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Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia by Steven A. Riess Pdf

Provides practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. This book aims to fill the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers as they attempt to cope with the human side of their jobs.

Author : John Thorn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476621395

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Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9 by John Thorn Pdf

BACK ISSUE Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball’s early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture. Prior to Volume 10, Base Ball was published as Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. This is a back issue of that journal.

Author : Gabe Logan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498599047

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The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887–1939 by Gabe Logan Pdf

This study examines the history of Chicago soccer from 1887 to 1939 from the perspectives of recreation, immigration, labor, and urban history. The author analyzes the championship tournaments, teams, and players that enabled Chicago to become one of the nation's early soccer powers.

Author : Giles Phillips
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781908165152

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Edgar Willsher: The Lion of Kent by Giles Phillips Pdf

A hundred and fifty years ago, on a warm August afternoon, Edgar 'Ned' Willsher (1828-1885), a left-arm quick bowler from Kent playing at The Oval for England against Surrey, was ‘no-balled’ six times in succession. Ned threw down the ball in exasperation, and left the field with his fellow professionals. A compromise was reached. Ned apologized for his quick temper, and the game restarted the following day, without any noticeable change to his bowling style. But the incident put the game’s authorities, who had long failed to enforce the rules consistently, onto the back foot. Ned’s transgression – his hand was higher than his shoulder – led to a change in the Law in 1864 and the legalising of overarm bowling, the biggest-ever single change to the conduct of cricket. Today’s bowlers are still working out new ways of delivering the ball overarm. Willsher himself served his county team loyally for over twenty seasons, taking well over a thousand first-class wickets. He was a regular in the bigger representative matches of his time. In recognition of his status in the game, he captained an England side to North America before such a position was thought to be an amateur prerogative. Poacher turned gamekeeper, he was 'there' when listing first-class umpires started in 1883. Giles Phillips traces the career of a farmer’s son from East Kent as a successful player and umpire and his struggle to make a living off the field of play.

Author : Jason Wilson,Richard M. Reid
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459749979

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Famous for a Time by Jason Wilson,Richard M. Reid Pdf

Celebrating Canadian athletes and sporting history. The cultural impact of sport on a nation is not slight. Famous for a Time explores a number of important, if not well remembered, Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation’s complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation. Through the prism of some exceptional athletes, the prevailing attitudes of many Canadians about class, race, masculinity, femininity, and national identity are laid bare. Here, from the sidelines, we learn how these attitudes have changed — or not, as the case may be — over time. From team sports such as lacrosse, baseball, and cricket to Canada’s cycling craze, track and field, and boxing, each chapter offers insight into an important aspect of the nation’s narrative. The winners and losers of Canada’s games simply mirror the larger questions that have faced Canadian society across three centuries.

Author : Sheldon Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498517966

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The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports by Sheldon Anderson Pdf

This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes by which the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on domestic politics and foreign affairs. Teams competing in international sporting events provide people a shared national experience and a means to differentiate “us” from “them.” Particular attention is paid to the transnational influences on the construction of sporting communities, and why some areas resisted dominant sporting cultures while others adopted them and changed them to fit their particular political or societal needs. A recurrent theme of the book is that as much as they try, politicians have been frustrated in their attempts to achieve political ends through sport. The book provides a basis for understanding the political, economic, social, and diplomatic contexts in which these games were played, and to present issues that spur further discussion and research.

Author : Grant Keltner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9798823020985

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Rose City Tales by Grant Keltner Pdf

Rose City Tales. The following collection of verse includes short stories that were inspired from my recollections with events, fables and yarns that cover my upbringing while living here in Portland, Oregon. It’s my intent to remember the times that meant the most to me and pass them down to others to enjoy. These stories are dedicated in memory to those that shared their lives with me (directly or indirectly) and in memory to those that helped shape these foibles. I want to thank my friends and family in helping create these stories, for their inspiration and love.

Author : Mark Peel
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785317033

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Cricketing Caesar by Mark Peel Pdf

Mike Brearley was one of England's greatest captains, thrice winning the Ashes, including the memorable series of 1981. He also led Middlesex to four county championships and two Gillette Cup wins. In this first-ever biography of Brearley, Mark Peel assesses the many facets of his complex personality to explain his phenomenal success as a leader.

Author : John Lazenby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408842881

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The Strangers Who Came Home by John Lazenby Pdf

The Ashes cricket series, played out between England and Australia, is the oldest, and arguably the most keenly-contested rivalry, in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 in fact regarded themselves as Englishmen. In May of that year the SS City of Berlin docked at Liverpool, and the Australians stepped onto English ground to begin the inaugural first-class cricket tour of England by a representative overseas team. As they made their way south towards Lord's to play the MCC in the second match of the tour, the intrepid tourists, or 'the strangers' as they were referred to in the press, encountered arrogance and ignorance, cheating umpires and miserable weather. But by defeating a powerful MCC side which included W.G. Grace himself in a single afternoon's play, they turned English cricket on its head. The Lord's crowd, having openly laughed at the tourists, wildly celebrated a victory that has been described as 'arguably the most momentous six hours in cricket history' and claimed the Australians as their own. The Strangers Who Came Home is a compelling social history which brings that momentous summer to life, telling the story of these extraordinary men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in England (as well as several in Philadelphia, America, on their return journey) during a demanding but ultimately triumphant homecoming; how their glorious achievements on the field of play threw open the doors to international sports touring, and how these men from the colonies provided the stimulus for Australian nationhood through their sporting success and brought unprecedented vitality to international cricket.

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118537824

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Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 by Steven A. Riess Pdf

Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readability Explores topics including urbanization, ethnicity, class, sport in educational institutions, women in sport, and sport’s role in manifesting city, regional, and national pride. Includes an entirely new chapter on the globalization of American sport Includes a new bank of photographs and images. Features a newly revised and updated Bibliographical Essay

Author : Marc R Rosenblum,Marc R. Rosenblum,Daniel J. Tichenor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195337228

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The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration by Marc R Rosenblum,Marc R. Rosenblum,Daniel J. Tichenor Pdf

Twenty-nine specialists offer their perspectives on migration from a wide variety of fields: political science, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

Author : Ryan A. Swanson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803235212

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When Baseball Went White by Ryan A. Swanson Pdf

"Explains how in the decade following the Civil War, baseball became segregated because its leaders wanted to grow its presence and appeal to Southerners, and wanted to professionalize it. The result was the exclusion of black players that lasted until 1947"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Marine insurance
ISBN : UOM:39015086590075

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Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping by Anonim Pdf