American Sport in International History : The United States and the World since 1865 (Paperback)

Dedication List of Illustrations Part I: The Huddled Masses Immigration And The Emergence Of Modern Sport in America Basketball and Urban Space Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement America and the Modern Olympic Movement Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World's Fair Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry and the 1908 London Games Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games Baseball and American Empire Foreigners to Fans Cannons in the Outfield Baseball's World Tours Conjuring the National Pastime Notes Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe Part II: In Service of the State The Growing Business of Baseball Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media The Negro Leagues and Baseball's Continued Growth Abroad Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist Twenties and Thirties The Olympics and War Olympic Growth in the Twenties and Thirties Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics US Sport in World War II Notes Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias Part III: The Dawn of the Activist Athlete Post-War Professional Sport in America The NFL Sets the Edge The Making of the NBA Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after World War II Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport Muhammad Ali v The United States Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index