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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part38.utf8:182055619:1567
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01567cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2011018169
003 DLC
005 20120702112656.0
008 110505s2012 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011018169
016 7 $a015785483$2Uk
020 $a9780470655467 (alk. paper)
020 $a0470655461 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn723142344
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dUKMGB$dCDX$dBDX$dKMS$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aGV583$b.D39 2012
082 00 $a796$223
100 1 $aDavies, Richard O.,$d1937-
245 10 $aSports in American life :$ba history /$cRichard O. Davies.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aChichester, West Sussex ;$aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2012.
300 $axix, 422 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe emergence of organized sports, 1607-1860 -- Baseball : "this noble and envigorating [sic] game" -- The formative years of college football -- The modernization of American sports, 1865-1920 -- Baseball ascendant, 1890-1930 -- Playing nice : women and sports, 1860-1945 -- "An evil to be endured" : sports on campus, 1920-1950 -- Sports in an age of ballyhoo, depression, and war, 1920-1945 -- America's great dilemma -- Television changes the image of American sports -- College sports in the modern era -- Play for pay -- Do you believe in miracles? -- The persistent dilemma of race -- Playing nice no longer : women's sports, 1960-2012 -- "Only in America!" -- The democratization of sports.
650 0 $aSports$zUnited States$xHistory.