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A companion to American sport history
A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history.
* Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport
* Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history
* Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field
* Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography
Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)
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The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds. Riess narrates the history of horse racing, detailing how and why New York became the national capital of the sport from the mid-1860s until the early twentieth century. The sport’s survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Gambling, the heart of racing’s appeal, made the sport morally suspect. Yet democratic politicians protected the sport, helping to establish the State Racing Commission, the first state agency to regulate sport in the United States. At the same time, racetracks became a key connection between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing’s heyday.
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NASSH and the Evolution of Sport History in North America
This essay examines the evolution of sport history, once a disdained subject among scholars, into a vital and respectable topic of inquiry, focusing on the North American Society for Sport History's (NASSH) fifty-year effort to achieve that status. Until the 1970s, historians neglected sport history, considering it unworthy of their attention because it was a frivolous topic that did not foster valuable knowledge or explain vital historical issues and because physical educators produced insignificant monographs on sport. NASSH was established in 1973 to promote a community of sport historians from across disciplines and generate intellectually sound scholarship. It contributed to this goal through annual conferences, support for the Journal of Sport History, supporting junior scholars, and awarding prizes for major scholarly achievements. It soon attracted young men and women trained in physical education/kinesiology or history departments and also experienced scholars drawn by sporting subjects who wrote important monographs.
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When Chicago Went to the Dogs: Al Capone and Greyhound Racing in the Windy City, 1927–1933
The National Coursing Association was founded in 1888 to promote rabbit and jackrabbit hunts, violent events opposed by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.3 The father of greyhound racing was Oliver Patrick Smith, director of the Hot Springs, South Dakota Chamber of Commerce, who set up a coursing meet in 1905 to promote tourism. [...]Hannah Smith was not an astute businesswoman, and she sold O'Hare exclusive rights to the electric rabbit, which provided him with a means to get rich.7 The Greyhounds Come to Chicago Chicago, the nation's second largest city, was a logical candidate for dog racing because of its prominence in commercialized sports, its midcontinent location, enhanced by its access to rail lines, and its large working class that provided a potential for an evening gambling spectator sport. [...]conditions made Chicago a prime location for dog racing, whose appeal was totally tied to wagering.8 Dog racing was first tested in Chicago in the summer of 1922 at Riverview Park, the famous North Side amusement park, where dogs chased a mechanical rabbit around the Riverview Kennel Club's oval. Gangsters expected that their well-placed bribes would get them impunity.10 Dog racing returned to metropolitan Chicago in 1926 at the halfmile Illinois Kennel Club (IKC), twenty-three miles south of Chicago in Thornton, near the two-year-old Washington Park Race Track in Homewood.
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Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia
Provides practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. This book aims to fill the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers as they attempt to cope with the human side of their jobs.
Here's practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. Written in an informal, first-person style, this useful book fills the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers as they attempt to cope with the human side of their jobs. The author is a noted scholar in both cognitive psychology and organizational studies, and has drawn from extensive personal experience as well as careful observation of good and bad managers. \"The Human Element\" is organized around six fundamental commitments that good employee managers make in order to succeed. It is filled with practical examples and step-by-step guidelines for performing important tasks and dealing with common problems - everything from how to conduct a meeting, to how to write a code of conduct, to how to diagnose the cause of performance problems. \"The Human Element\" is designed to reduce the stress of management by providing insight into why employees do what they do, and what to do about it. It is an ideal supplement for any course in \"people management,\" including supervision, HRM, and applied OB courses.
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