Sports in the Western WorldRowman and Littlefield, 1982 - 360 sider Traces the history of sports from the original Greek Olympics to the development of professional team sports and considers the business and political aspects of sports. |
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... cities of North America . England's Revolution in Sports and Pastimes In 1800 England's leading romantic writer and future Poet Laureate , William Wordsworth , noted in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads " the increasing accumulation of ...
... cities of North America . England's Revolution in Sports and Pastimes In 1800 England's leading romantic writer and future Poet Laureate , William Wordsworth , noted in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads " the increasing accumulation of ...
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... cities set the stage for an altogether different sporting scene . In 1820 only twelve population centers ( all , with the exception of New Orleans , on the eastern seaboard ) numbered 10,000 or more ; by 1860 no less than 101 claimed ...
... cities set the stage for an altogether different sporting scene . In 1820 only twelve population centers ( all , with the exception of New Orleans , on the eastern seaboard ) numbered 10,000 or more ; by 1860 no less than 101 claimed ...
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... cities . " In the following year a cricket match between a visiting English team and a local team at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken , New Jersey , drew a crowd of 25,000 , requiring extra ferries to carry people over from Manhattan . Yet ...
... cities . " In the following year a cricket match between a visiting English team and a local team at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken , New Jersey , drew a crowd of 25,000 , requiring extra ferries to carry people over from Manhattan . Yet ...
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Medieval People at Play | 42 |
New Standards for Old Sports | 85 |
The Birth of Mass Leisure | 99 |
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