Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century
Author | : Tim Crothers |
Publisher | : Time Home Entertainment |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781883013707 |
Memorial: John B. Harhai.
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Author | : Tim Crothers |
Publisher | : Time Home Entertainment |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781883013707 |
Memorial: John B. Harhai.
Author | : Bill Crawford |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004-10-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Brad Herzog |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Athletes |
ISBN | : 9781886749832 |
Author | : Howard Bryant |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0807026999 |
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world’s worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and cheering for the home team was as easy and innocent as hot dogs and beer. “No news on the sports page” was a governing principle in newsrooms. That was then. Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. Teams wear camouflage jerseys to honor those who serve; police officers throw out first pitches; soldiers surprise their families with homecomings at halftime. Sports and politics are decidedly entwined. But as journalist Howard Bryant reveals, this has always been more complicated for black athletes, who from the start, were committing a political act simply by being on the field. In fact, among all black employees in twentieth-century America, perhaps no other group had more outsized influence and power than ballplayers. The immense social responsibilities that came with the role is part of the black athletic heritage. It is a heritage built by the influence of the superstardom and radical politics of Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos through the 1960s; undermined by apolitical, corporate-friendly “transcenders of race,” O. J. Simpson, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods in the following decades; and reclaimed today by the likes of LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and Carmelo Anthony. The Heritage is the story of the rise, fall, and fervent return of the athlete-activist. Through deep research and interviews with some of sports’ best-known stars—including Kaepernick, David Ortiz, Charles Barkley, and Chris Webber—as well as members of law enforcement and the military, Bryant details the collision of post-9/11 sports in America and the politically engaged post-Ferguson black athlete.
Author | : Frank Andre Guridy |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1477321837 |
In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in popularity, and the proliferation of television enabled people across the country to support their favorite teams and athletes from the comfort of their homes. At the same time, the civil rights and feminist movements were reshaping the nation, broadening the boundaries of social and political participation. The Sports Revolution tells how these forces came together in the Lone Star State. Tracing events from the end of Jim Crow to the 1980s, Frank Guridy chronicles the unlikely alliances that integrated professional and collegiate sports and launched women’s tennis. He explores the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that emerged during the era, including the role the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders played in defining womanhood in the age of second-wave feminism. Guridy explains how the sexual revolution, desegregation, and changing demographics played out both on and off the field as he recounts how the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers and how Mexican American fans and their support for the Spurs fostered a revival of professional basketball in San Antonio. Guridy argues that the catalysts for these changes were undone by the same forces of commercialization that set them in motion and reveals that, for better and for worse, Texas was at the center of America’s expanding political, economic, and emotional investments in sport.
Author | : Jack Kavanagh |
Publisher | : Smithmark Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780831739621 |
Sportswriters Kavanagh and Tackach survey baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, ice hockey, tennis, and the Olympics to profile 100 of the century's greatest competitors. Each biography is accompanied by outstanding color and black and white action photos.
Author | : ESPN (TV network) |
Publisher | : Hyperion Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1999-09-22 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, has combined its considerable resources with the talents of some of sports' most renowned authors, academics, commentators, and observers to create this memorable chronicle of sports in our century. ESPN SportsCentury is a fitting tribute to the greatest athletes, best teams, biggest games, and most unforgettable moments, which have enthralled us while also influencing our political, social, and cultural development as a nation. Book jacket.
Author | : Jennifer H. Lansbury |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1610755421 |
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. From the 1920s, when black women athletes were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women's track and field, African American women found sport opened the door to a better life. However, they also discovered that success meant challenging perceptions that many Americans--both black and white--held of them. Through the stories of six athletes--Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee--Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement. Uncovering the various strategies the athletes use to beat back stereotypes, Lansbury explores the fullness of African American women's relationship with sport in the twentieth century.
Author | : Ron Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Profiles of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Author | : Zander Hollander |
Publisher | : Random House Trade |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780394815541 |
Biographical sketches of fifty American athletes who represent eleven different sports.