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Author : Steven A. Riess,Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252076152
A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498598989
This study uses sociological and historical methodologies to analyze the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author traces the transformation of Chicago from a frontier town to a commercial behemoth, examining its role as an immigration, transportation, and entertainment hub. The author argues that, as a pioneering leader in American sport history, Chicago allowed teams and athletes to forge a unique national and global identity. This thorough and well-researched study makes a major contribution to debates on the social and psychological functions of sport culture.
Author : Brian Sandalow
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781634940306
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 : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781607106920
New from the Bathroom Reader: a grand slam, hole-in-one, hat trick collection of sports lore and trivia. Hey, sports fans: Sports Spectacular is bigger and better than ever! The not-so-dumb jocks at the BRI have packed in all the best sports and games articles from the wildly successful Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series--and then bulked the whole thing up with more than 50 fan-tastic new pages. So place the ball on the tee, square up to the basket, and make sure your laces are laced tight, because it’s time to throw the dice through the goalposts for a home run! You’ll feel the thrill of victory and laugh at the agony of defeat as you read about… * The origins of all the major sports (and a bunch of minor ones) * Classic games, from poker and pinball to Monopoly and Donkey Kong * How to play bathroom blackjack * The world’s worst matador * The Goodyear Blimp * Mascots gone wild * Olympic scandals * NASCAR’s illegal origins * Dodging the cow pies when you play pasture golf * Finnish wife-carrying, gerbil racing, flagpole sitting, and other bizarre sports And much, much more!
Author : Jack M. Silverstein
Publisher : Keylog Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781662939426
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 : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459477
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 : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780815655282
Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a center of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. Horse Racing the Chicago Way shines a light on this fascinating, complicated history, exploring the role of political influence and class in the rise and fall of thoroughbred racing; the business of racing; the cultural and social significance of racing; and the impact widespread opposition to gambling in Illinois had on the sport. Riess also draws attention to the nexus that existed between horse racing, politics, and syndicate crime, as well as the emergence of neighborhood bookmaking, and the role of the national racing wire in Chicago. Taking readers from the grandstands of Chicago’s finest tracks to the underworld of crime syndicates and downtown poolrooms, Riess brings to life this understudied era of sports history.
Author : Jean O'Reilly
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555537876
The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports
Author : Wendell Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476649412
With the world's eyes on Jackie Robinson, there were not many who noticed the sportswriter who traveled by the baseball star's side in 1946-47. Wendell Smith was a pioneer not only in writing, but in broadcast media as well, with a career that spanned 1937-1972 and included more than 1,500 written pieces. After an extensive biographical sketch, this work presents a collection of Smith's writings. Chapters are organized to present him as one who chronicled Black history, traveled extensively, challenged racism, noted progress in racial relations, criticized friends, praised enemies, and bid farewell to notable figures who passed before him. Black athletes covered in his writings include Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Ernie Banks, and many more. When necessary, the editor provides commentary to provide context or illustrate key points.
Author : Gems, Gerald,Borish, Linda,Pfister, Gertrud
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492526520
Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Second Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to give students a compelling grasp of the evolution of American sporting practices.
Author : Brad Schultz,Mary L. Sheffer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498514422
This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world. A wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports, ethics, or culture as a whole.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118609408
A Companion to American Sport History presents acollection of original essays that represent the firstcomprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing fieldof American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarshiprelating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars workingin the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonialtimes to the present day, including major sports such as baseball,football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and trackand field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization,technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sportsbiography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118537824
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 : Colin Fisher
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469619965
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.
Author : Gerald R. Gems,Linda J. Borish,Gertrud Pfister
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781718203037
Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to help students grasp the compelling evolution of American sporting practices