The Irish American Athletic Club Of New York

Author : Patrick R. Redmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476631622

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The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York by Patrick R. Redmond Pdf

 At the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs generally recruited the top sporting graduates from private colleges—except one. New York’s Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. Membership was not exclusively Irish—Jews, African Americans, Scandinavians, Italians, and even a handful of Englishmen joined the club, which dominated local and national athletics for more than a decade. The I-AAC laid claim to the title of best athletic club in the world following the 1908 Olympic Games, bent the rules on amateurism and challenged the ban on Sunday entertainments before succumbing to aftereffects of World War I and Prohibition.

Author : Patrick R. Redmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476672397

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The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York by Patrick R. Redmond Pdf

At the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs generally recruited the top sporting graduates from private colleges--except one. New York's Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. Membership was not exclusively Irish--Jews, African Americans, Scandinavians, Italians, and even a handful of Englishmen joined the club, which dominated local and national athletics for more than a decade. The I-AAC laid claim to the title of best athletic club in the world following the 1908 Olympic Games, bent the rules on amateurism and challenged the ban on Sunday entertainments before succumbing to aftereffects of World War I and Prohibition.

Author : Kevin Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781538142318

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The Irish Whales by Kevin Martin Pdf

In the early 1900s, the Olympic Games track and field throwing events were dominated by a group of Irish-born weight throwers representing the United States. Of immense size and with a larger-than-life presence, these athletes came to be known as the “Irish Whales.” In The Irish Whales: Olympians of Old New York, Kevin Martin shares the untold story of these Irish American athletes who competed with unparalleled distinction for the United States. James Mitchell, John Flanagan, Martin Sheridan, Pat McDonald, Paddy Ryan, and Con Walsh won a total of eighteen medals in the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924 and completely dominated the world stage in their chosen athletic disciplines. They were lionized in the American and Irish press and became folk heroes among Irish-American immigrant communities. Almost all of these men were further distinguished by their membership in the fabled Irish American Athletic Club of New York and careers with the New York Police Department. The story of the Irish Whales is the very embodiment of the American Dream and exemplifies the triumph of many Irish emigrants in the New World. Featuring a wonderful collection of original photographs, The Irish Whales tells the dramatic stories of these international athletes and their extraordinary sporting successes.

Author : J.J. Lee,Marion Casey
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814752180

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Making the Irish American by J.J. Lee,Marion Casey Pdf

"Here is a new Clay Sanskrit Library publication of the middle book of Valmiki's Ramayana, the source revered throughout South Asia as the original account of the career of Rama, the ideal man and the incarnation of the great god Vishnu." "After losing first his kingship and then his wife, Sita, Rama goes to the monkey capital of Kishkindha to seek help in finding her, and meets Hanuman, the greatest of the monkey heroes. The brothers Valin and Sugriva are both claimants for the monkey throne; in exchange for the assistance of monkey troops in discovering where Sita is held captive, Rama has to help Sugriva win the throne. The monkey hordes set out in every direction to scour the world, but they have no success until an old vulture tells them Sita is in Lanka. The book concludes with Hanuman's preparation to leap over the ocean to Lanka to pursue the search." "The tragic rivalry between the two monkey brothers is in sharp contrast to Rama's affectionate relationship with his own brothers, and forms a self-contained episode within the larger story of Rama's adventures. Rama's intervention in the struggle between Sugriva and Valin is the chief moral focus of the book." --Book Jacket.

Author : Patrick R. Redmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476605845

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The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920 by Patrick R. Redmond Pdf

Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agree--and expand--that the period from the mid-1830s well into the first decade of the 20th century and assign the term to American sports in general. This book covers the Irish sportsman from the arrival of James "Deaf" Burke in 1836 through to Jack B. Kelly's rejection by Henley regatta and his subsequent gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. It avoids recounting the various victories and defeats of the Irish sportsman, seeking instead to deal with the complex interaction that he had with alcohol, gambling and Sunday leisure: pleasures that were banned in most of America at some time or other between 1836 and 1920. This book also covers the Irish sportsman's close relations with politicians, his role in labor relations, his violent lifestyle--and by contrast--his participation in bringing respectability to sport. It also deals with native Irish sports in America, the part played by the Irish in "Team USA's" initial international sporting ventures, and in the making and breaking of amateurism within sport.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112051405303

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The Troy Record Almanac and Year-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : PRNC:32101072312299

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The New York Clipper Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : College sports
ISBN : UIUC:30112109226685

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The Intercollegiate by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Edward Plumbe,James Langland,Claude Othello Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : CHI:12374773

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Daily News Almanac and Political Register by George Edward Plumbe,James Langland,Claude Othello Pike Pdf

Author : Henry Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Linotype
ISBN : NYPL:33433078739764

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The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Henry Hall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : WISC:89062843826

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The Daily News Almanac and Political Register for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : UCAL:B3006822

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The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Archibald Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Track and field
ISBN : UIUC:30112071113481

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Archie's Little Black Book by Henry Archibald Richardson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102798774

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Mind and Body by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112045072391

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The Americana by Anonim Pdf