A People's History of Sports in the United States by Zirin, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

ALSO BY DAVE ZIRIN Title Page Dedication Series Preface Preface Acknowledgements 1 - Until the Twentieth Century

Too Pure for Sports The Dirty South The Other America: Sports in Bondage Sports and the American Revolution Class After the Revolution Women Want Off the Sidelines The Emergence of Baseball and the Birth of Nostalgia A Civil War Ends The Spindle-Shanked Baseball After the Civil War Order Comes to Baseball Rebellion Comes to Baseball Moses Fleetwood Walker Booms and Busts Horse Racing Boxing Women’s Hoops Theodore Roosevelt

2 - Rough Riding

Football Football and the Shaping of Paul Robeson World War I Jack Johnson Black Sox

3 - Sports and Leisure

The Sport of Celebrity Hard Road, No Glory No One’s Sad Sister Women in the 1920s

4 - No Depression

Chicago Counter-Olympics “Red” Rodney Owens and Louis The Brown Bomber The Black Press

5 - War and Its Discontents

Sports in the Camps Blacks During World War II Rosie the Pitcher “If He’s Good Enough for the Navy ...” Jack Roosevelt Robinson The Negro Leagues Are Picked Apart Football Ahead of Its Time African American Women Start Your Engines

6 - Have We Gone Soft?

Terror McCarthyism Strands Robinson Goodbye Rosie Bowling as Community The Growth of the Civil Rights Movement Althea Gibson Robinson Agonistes Walter O’Malley, the Red Scare, and Chavez Ravine Corruption of College Athletics Pro Football’s Ascendancy

7 - Sports on the Edge of Panic

Shaking Up the World Vietnam Bill Russell Goes Up The Miners of Texas Western Revolt of the Black Athlete No Turning Back: 1968 The Utterly Explosive 1968 Olympics Roots of Kareem The Revolt After Mexico Dave Meggyesy: Out of Their League Women Roar

8 - The Flood Gates

Protest Comes to Husky Stadium The New Sportswriting Black Struggle in the 1970s Death of Clemente Jack Scott’s Athletic Revolution South Africa The Black Revolt Becomes a Women’s Revolt Title IX Curt Opens a Flood The Brewing of Backlash 3.0

9 - The 1980s: Welcome to Hell

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Campanis Revelations The NBA Rises to a Beat The Frustration of Jim Brown Martina Women’s Sports Feels—and Feeds—the Backlash The Gay Games Strike!

10 - C.R.E.A.M.

AIDS Fires in Los Angeles End of Days Jordan Inc. Abdul-Rauf: The Anti-Jordan Contrasting Colors Women, Soccer, and the United States Women Go to the Hoop The Williams Sisters 1994 Baseball Strike and Steroids DSHEA and the Den of Idiots Pushing Beyond the Games

11 - More of the Same Versus Change

The Break Rich and Poor: Stadium Edition Stringer Jena

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