America's Game

America's Game
Author: Michael MacCambridge
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2008-11-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0307481433

It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.

Basketball

Basketball
Author: Joe Jares
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1972
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780695802035

Sugarball

Sugarball
Author: Alan M. Klein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1993-02-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780300052565

Describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country

The American Game

The American Game
Author: Lawrence Baldassaro
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9780809389094

These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present for the first time in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball-- and of American society as a whole-- over the course of the twentieth century. Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago when athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers. In the 1920s, commentators noted the influx of ballplayers of Italian and Slavic origins and wondered why there were not more Jewish players in the big leagues. The era following World War II, however, saw the most dramatic ethnographic shift with the belated entry of African American ballplayers. The pattern of ethnic succession continues as players of Hispanic and Asian origin infuse fresh excitement and renewal into the major leagues.

The American Game

The American Game
Author: Gary Hardwick
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365755959

The event that changed the world has left a dangerous legacy and only one man stands in its way. Luther Green has survived the Executioner's Game and has gone back to work eliminating threats to America around the globe. When a trusted friend asks for his assistance in finding a government asset who faked his death on September 11th, Luther is drawn into another lethal game of cat and mouse, only this time, the fate of America hangs in the balance. The government asset is a Server, a man with perfect memory who has proof that American enemies are planning an even more lethal event that will forever change the nation. Luther has information that can undo the plot but when he is targeted by these powerful forces, he is left no choice but to use all of his training to eliminate the threat.

Way We Played The Game

Way We Played The Game
Author: John Armstrong
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2002
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1402252234

When boys played a man's game and football was hell

The Game Is Not a Game

The Game Is Not a Game
Author: Robert Scoop Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781642590968

THE GAME IS NOT A GAME IS AN INSIGHTFUL, UNAPOLOGETIC EXPOSÉ OF THE INTERSECTION OF SPORTS, CULTURE, AND POLITICS FROM VETERAN JOURNALIST ROBERT SCOOP JACKSON.

America's Game(s)

America's Game(s)
Author: Benjamin Eastman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2007-12-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1136802622

This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball academies run by American professional teams in the Dominican Republic? With the athletes that carry a flag in Olympic ceremonies or among the executives in the boardrooms of Nike? The contributors arg

The American Football Trilogy

The American Football Trilogy
Author: Walter Camp
Publisher: Lost Century
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0982489129

Includes the original texts: American football / by Walter Camp. Franklin Square, New York : Harper & Brothers, 1891 -- A scientific and practical treatise on American football for schools and colleges / by A. Alonzo Stagg and Henry L. Williams. Hartford, Conn. : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1893 -- Football / by Walter Camp and Lorin F. Deland. Cambridge ; Boston ; and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company : The Riverside Press, 1896.