TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Richard O.
TI  - Sports in American life: a history 
SN  - 9780470655467 (alk. paper)
U1  - 796 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Sports
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Deportes
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
KW  - 20150700
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The emergence of organized sports, 1607-1860 -- Baseball : "this noble and envigorating [sic] game" -- The formative years of college football -- The modernization of American sports, 1865-1920 -- Baseball ascendant, 1890-1930 -- Playing nice : women and sports, 1860-1945 -- "An evil to be endured" : sports on campus, 1920-1950 -- Sports in an age of ballyhoo, depression, and war, 1920-1945 -- America's great dilemma -- Television changes the image of American sports -- College sports in the modern era -- Play for pay -- Do you believe in miracles? -- The persistent dilemma of race -- Playing nice no longer : women's sports, 1960-2012 -- "Only in America!" -- The democratization of sports
ER  -