This stimulating anthology provides a scholarly perspective on the history of sport. New and exciting dimensions of sport history are introduced by exploring its political, economic, social, and cultural aspects. Race relations and racism in sport, the interaction of sports and politics, sexism and the role of women in sports, and the role that the profit motive plays in sports are among the topics covered. The impact of American attitudes toward violence as they apply to sport, and sport's powerful role in reinforcing class values are also reviewed from a historical perspective.
This stimulating anthology provides a scholarly perspective on the history of sport. New and exciting dimensions of sport history are introduced by...
If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy Satchel Paige was arguably one of the world s greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher.Spivey follows Paige from his birth in Alabama in 1906 to his death in...
If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and cr...
" If You Were Only White "explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy Satchel Paige was arguably one of the world s greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher.
Spivey follows Paige from his birth in Alabama in 1906 to his death in Kansas...
" If You Were Only White "explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-p...