Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926
(Part of the Sports and Popular Culture Series and Sports and History Series)
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In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. During these years, basketball was invented, football became a mass spectator event, and baseball soared to its status as the "national pasttime." Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195091337
ISBN13:9780195091335
Release Date:February 1997
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"
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