Sports In Chicago

Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Sports
ISBN : 9780252075230

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Sports in Chicago by Elliott J. Gorn Pdf

Chicago has garnered national recognition by winning the World Series, the Super Bowl, and a string of titles in the National Basketball Association. But amateur sports also play a large role in the city's athletic traditions, especially in schools and youth leagues. In fourteen chapters, experts focus on multiple aspects of Chicago sports, including long looks at amateur boxing, the impact of gender and ethnicity in sports, the politics of horse racing and stadium building, the lasting scandal of the Black Sox, and the perpetual heartbreak of the Cubs. Well illustrated with forty photographs, this volume will help historians and sports fans alike appreciate the longstanding importance of sports in Chicago. Contributors are Peter Alter, Robin F. Bachin, Larry Bennett, Linda J. Borish, Gerald Gems, Elliott J. Gorn, Richard Kimball, Gabe Logan, Daniel A. Nathan, Timothy Neary, Steven A. Riess, John Russick, Timothy Spears, Costas Spirou, and Loic Wacquant.

Author : Steven A. Riess,Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252076152

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The Chicago Sports Reader by Steven A. Riess,Gerald R. Gems Pdf

A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

Author : Dan McNeil,Ed Sherman
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762439232

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The Great Book of Chicago Sports Lists by Dan McNeil,Ed Sherman Pdf

Chicago sports fans are the most passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated in the country. Now, the Windy City's top sports-radio jock and a longtime native sportswriter engage this phenomenon with a compilation of informative and entertaining lists sure to stir up dialogue and debate within the buzzing Chicago sports scene. With original contributions from top Chicago sports and entertainment personalities such as Norm Van Lier, Bill Wennington, Dan Jiggetts, Pat Hughes, Len Kasper, John McDonough, Mike North, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and many more, this is a must-have reference and entertaining read for all jocks, wannabes, haters, dreamers, and died-in-the-wool Chicago sports fans.

Author : Brian Sandalow
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781634940306

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Chicago: America's Best Sports Town by Brian Sandalow Pdf

Chicago sports teams have put their fans through hell at times, but that’s only part of the story. Chicago: America’s Best Sports Town recounts the athletes, coaches, triumphs, and heartbreaks that have kept fans coming back for more.

Author : Roland Lazenby
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582613516

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Chicago's Greatest Sports Memories by Roland Lazenby Pdf

From the Bears' 73-0 win in 1940 over the Redskins in the most lopsided playoff game in NFL history to Michael Jordan and the Bulls' six NBA championships in the '90s, Chicago's Greatest Sports Memories presents the greatest moments in Chicago sports history. This book features stories and photographs from the archives of the Chicago Sun-Times, plus introductions and original essays by award-winning writer Roland Lazenby. The book contains historical and eyewitness accounts of such feats as Rocky Marciano's knockout of Jersey Joe Walcott in 1953; Walter Payton breaking Jim Brown's rushing record in 1984; and Bobby Hull becoming the first NHL player to exceed 50 goals in a season in 1966.

Author : Jack M. Silverstein
Publisher : Keylog Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781662939426

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Why We Root (Vol. 1): Mad Obsessions of a Chicago Sports Fan by Jack M. Silverstein Pdf

Why We Root: Mad Obsessions of a Chicago Sports Fan is a collection of Jack M Silverstein's sportswriting, including pieces from 1999 to 2023 that reveal the sports-fan mindset and show readers why we root for our teams. This collection of eighty-one articles is organized based on a fan's emotional journey—from learning the game, to knowing the game, to emotional heartbreak, and eventually to celebrating championships. Included in the book are Silverstein's real-time articles on many of the best known Chicago sports events of the early 21st century, including: the White Sox, Blackhawks, and Cubs breaking winning their first championships after massive droughts; the Bears reaching, and losing, the Super Bowl; the rise and fall of saviors-to-be Derrick Rose and Jay Cutler; the Chicago Sky winning the 2021 WNBA championship; the Blackhawks' famed "17 seconds" championship; the Bears' agonizing "double doink"; and the Cubs' horrific Bartman game, retold from multiple perspectives in multiple years, including ten years later by pitcher Mark Prior and catcher Paul Bako. Also included are Silverstein's look back at the Bulls-Pistons rivalry of the 1990s, the 1995 Northwestern Wildcats Rose Bowl team, and Michael Jordan's flu game.

Author : Terry Boers
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641250344

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Score of a Lifetime by Terry Boers Pdf

For 25 years, Chicago sports fans invited Terry Boers into their homes, cars, and offices as one of the premier voices of WSCR radio. Covering the latest championships and trades, and always ready to offer up timely takes, Boers was a Windy City constant until his retirement in 2017. In his highly-anticipated memoir, Boers delivers a trove of lively anecdotes and personal reflections from his life and journey through sports media--from raucous banter with Mike Ditka during The Score's early days to the Cubs' World Series celebration in 2016. A must-read for any of the thousands of listeners who made Boers part of their daily routine, The Score of a Lifetime is a freewheeling, frank portrait of a man, a career, a station no one thought would survive, and a city that loves its sports.

Author : Ron Rapoport
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 022603660X

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From Black Sox to Three-Peats by Ron Rapoport Pdf

Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks—there’s no city like Chicago when it comes to sports. Generation after generation, Chicagoans pass down their almost religious allegiances to teams, stadiums, and players and their never-say-die attitude, along with the stories of the city’s best (and worst) sports moments. And every one of those moments—every come-from-behind victory or crushing defeat—has been chronicled by Chicago’s unparalleled sportswriters. In From Black Sox to Three-Peats, veteran Chicago sports columnist Ron Rapoportassembles one hundred of the best columns and articles from the Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily News, Defender, and other papers to tell the unforgettable story of a century of Chicago sports. From Ring Lardner to Rick Telander, Westbrook Pegler to Bob Verdi, Mike Royko to Hugh Fullerton , Melissa Isaacson to Brent Musburger, and on and on, this collection reminds us that Chicago sports fans have enjoyed a wealth of talent not just on the field, but in the press box as well. Through their stories we relive the betrayal of the Black Sox, the cocksure power of the ’85 Bears, the assassin’s efficiency of Jordan’s Bulls, the Blackhawks’ stunning reclamation of the Stanley Cup, the Cubs’ century of futility—all as seen in the moment, described and interpreted on the spot by some of the most talented columnists ever to grace a sports page. Sports are the most ephemeral of news events: once you know the outcome, the drama is gone. But every once in a while, there are those games, those teams, those players that make it into something more—and great writers can transform those fleeting moments into lasting stories that become part of the very identity of a city. From Black Sox to Three-Peats is Chicago history at its most exciting and celebratory. No sports fan should be without it.

Author : Gerald W. Scully
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226743950

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The Market Structure of Sports by Gerald W. Scully Pdf

Through a detailed economic assessment of the current business of professional sports and prospects for the future in the United States, Scully examines the factors that determine players' salaries; management practices and franchise values; and long-term, short-term, and corporate ownership. Scully shows, for example, that while the economic growth of the last two decades was fueled primarily by sales of television rights, the broadcast market has become saturated and teams will have to look elsewhere for income in the 1990s. This book offers technical insights that will interest business economists and professionals in sports management.

Author : Richard Cahan,Michael F. Williams,Neal S. Samors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 0972545662

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Real Chicago Sports by Richard Cahan,Michael F. Williams,Neal S. Samors Pdf

A celebration of the past 75 years of Chicago sports based on artistic and historical photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times. The book includes 350 duotone, black-and-white photographs. It details the city's major sports as well as the championship teams and athletes from boxer Joe Louis to Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan. This is the first major sports photo book that focuses on Chicago's great sports tradition.

Author : Douglas Hartmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226375038

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Midnight Basketball by Douglas Hartmann Pdf

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the night—all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop—could constitute meaningful social policy. Organized in the 1980s and ’90s by dozens of American cities, late-night basketball leagues were designed for social intervention, risk reduction, and crime prevention targeted at African American youth and young men. In Midnight Basketball, Hartmann traces the history of the program and the policy transformations of the period, while exploring the racial ideologies, cultural tensions, and institutional realities that shaped the entire field of sports-based social policy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book also brings to life the actual, on-the-ground practices of midnight basketball programs and the young men that the programs intended to serve. In the process, Midnight Basketball offers a more grounded and nuanced understanding of the intricate ways sports, race, and risk intersect and interact in urban America.

Author : Mike North
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781617499005

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Settling the Score by Mike North Pdf

Calm, reasoned, and well-modulated tones are not the order of business in discussing Chicago sports, and when it comes to talking Chicago sports, Mike North is in a class by himself. He led the sports-talk-radio industry out of its formative stages and became the city's most recognized voice. With his in-your-face style, North has all the answers and doesn't shortchange the reader when it comes to opinions. Why do the Bears carry the city? What's the basic difference between Sox and Cubs fans? Will the Bulls ever return to glory? Can the Blackhawks recapture their stature as one of the top teams in the NHL?

Author : Erin C. Tarver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226470139

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The I in Team by Erin C. Tarver Pdf

There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn’t the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn’t the grunts or even the stadium music. It’s the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports fandom—with its war paint and pennants, its pricey cable TV packages and esoteric stats reeled off like code—looks highly irrational, entertainment gone overboard. But as Erin C. Tarver demonstrates in this book, sports fandom has become extraordinarily important to our psyche, a matter of the very essence of who we are. Why in the world, Tarver asks, would anyone care about how well a total stranger can throw a ball, or hit one with a bat, or toss one through a hoop? Because such activities and the massive public events that surround them form some of the most meaningful ritual identity practices we have today. They are a primary way we—as individuals and a collective—decide both who we are who we are not. And as such, they are also one of the key ways that various social structures—such as race and gender hierarchies—are sustained, lending a dark side to the joys of being a sports fan. Drawing on everything from philosophy to sociology to sports history, she offers a profound exploration of the significance of sports in contemporary life, showing us just how high the stakes of the game are.

Author : Timothy B. Neary
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226388762

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Crossing Parish Boundaries by Timothy B. Neary Pdf

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. "Building Men, Not Just Fighters"--1. Minority within a Minority: African Americans Encounter Catholicism in the Urban North -- 2. "We Had Standing": Black and Catholic in Bronzeville -- 3. For God and Country: Bishop Sheil and the CYO -- 4. African American Participation in the CYO -- 5. The Fight Outside the Ring: Antiracism in the CYO -- 6. "Ahead of His Time": The Legacy of Bishop Sheil and the Unfulfilled Promise of Catholic Interracialism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Chicago Sun-Times
Publisher : Sports Pub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1583820604

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Chicago's Greatest Sports Memories by Chicago Sun-Times Pdf