How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? "Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945" tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas, and spectators that produced a major league business enterprise. Ross explores the ways in which the NHL organized itself to maintain long-term stability, deal with its labor force, and adapt its product and structure to the demands of local, regional, and international markets. He argues that...
How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? "Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey ...
Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces. With dedication and hard work, she became a gifted runner, earning a track and field scholarship to Tennessee State. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Her underdog story made her into a media darling, and she was the subject of countless articles, a television movie, children s books,...
Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough...
With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball concentrates on what happens once these modern warriors meet their untimely demise. As athletes die, legends rise in their place.
The premature deaths of celebrated players not only capture and immortalize their physical superiority, but also jolt their fans with an unanticipated intensity. These athletes escape the inevitability of aging and decline of skill, with only the prime of their youth left to be...
With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent c...
Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells's texts abound with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells s personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and complex themes. Withers traces Wells s ambivalent relationship with the bicycle throughout his writing. While he celebrated...
Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romance...
