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Working Americans, 1880-2009. Volume X, Sports & recreation
Preferred Shelf Number:
306.0973 DER VOL X
Title:
Working Americans, 1880-2009. Volume X, Sports & recreation
Author:
Derks, Scott.
ISBN:
9781592374410
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Amenia, NY : Grey House Pub., c2009.
Physical Description:
xvii, 560 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
General Note:
"A universal reference book."
Contents:
1880-1899 Introduction -- James Raubach, lawn tennis player -- Mike Kelly, professional baseball player -- Baseball timeline -- Chet Taylor, Yale University oarsman -- Athletics: Miller versus Bauer -- 1900-1909 Introduction -- Liam Hanratty, professional cyclist -- Bicycle racing timeline -- Lydia Ulrich, archer -- Archery timeline -- Giuseppe Giacometti, bookmaker -- The racing automobile and its relation to the development of the pleasure vehicle -- 1910-1919 Introduction -- Francis Ouimet, golfer -- Golf timeline -- Sally Waayne, tennis player -- Women in sports timeline -- Robert Meek, YMCA secretary -- Amateur athletics, a poll of the press -- 1920-1929 Introduction -- Allen Flannery, football player -- Football timeline -- William Lawrence "Young" Stribling, boxer -- John Farley & Donald Sweeney, fishermen -- Sporting Manhattan fears for its "sport" -- 1930-1939 Introduction -- Ben Covington, boat racer -- Outboard racing timeline -- Katy Rawls, Olympic swimmer -- Alan Miller, sportswriter -- Seabiscuit leaves a war admiral behind in epichol race -- 1940-1949 Introduction -- Dmitri Berenbaum, boxer -- Bob Chaffee, college basketball player -- Basketball timeline -- Jane "Jeep" Shollenberger, baseball player -- Women's baseball timeline -- The sideline, a department for sports fans conducted by Cap Fanning -- 1950-1959 Introduction -- Harrison Dillard, Olympic Hurdler -- Olympics timeline -- Bobby Epperson, stock car racer -- Racing timeline -- Martha Lovell, bowler -- Everyone gets into the act -- 1960-1969 Introduction -- Jim Bradford, Olympic weightlifter -- Charles Plautard, baseball stadium vendor -- Sally O'Neill, professional golfer -- Trends in sports television -- The boys with the horse-sized job -- 1970-1979 introduction -- Sonny Howell, professional hockey player -- Hockey timeline -- Jane Fisher, sailboat racer -- Joe Austin, boxing butman -- Avery repeats stop winter Olympics view -- 1980-1989 Introduction -- Jim Rosser, National Football League referee -- NFL rules timeline -- Paul Howe, professional football player -- NFL timeline -- Carlos Piccolo, cross-country runner -- Old plugs for new bass -- 1990-1999 Introduction -- Mark Strahorn, professional strongman -- Frankie Parsons, high school soccer coach -- American soccer timeline -- Mike Lincoln, division I baskteball player -- Texas Lutheran's own 'fab five' -- 2000-2009 Introduction -- Lola Martin, ultimate frisbee player -- Jamie Hagerman, Olympic hockey player -- Alfredo Lenzi, pool player -- Glossary of pool terms -- Casting cull, examining the process used to spot potential superstars.
Language:
English
Format:
Books