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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Side 106
... match in John C. Heenan , an Irish - American five inches taller and thirty pounds heavier . Patriotic overtones prompted the press to publicize the match , and a huge crowd of rich and poor showed up near the village of Farnborough for ...
... match in John C. Heenan , an Irish - American five inches taller and thirty pounds heavier . Patriotic overtones prompted the press to publicize the match , and a huge crowd of rich and poor showed up near the village of Farnborough for ...
Side 152
... matches . In the Test Match , however , they fell behind early . Rain interrupted play for half of the second day , but once play was resumed the Australians edged up , evening the score by mid - afternoon . Partisan English spectators ...
... matches . In the Test Match , however , they fell behind early . Rain interrupted play for half of the second day , but once play was resumed the Australians edged up , evening the score by mid - afternoon . Partisan English spectators ...
Side 297
... match . More than 30,000 fans , the largest live audience ever assembled for a tennis match , showed up at the Astrodome , and some 48 million watched on television . After the first set , the outcome was never in doubt . Riggs puffed ...
... match . More than 30,000 fans , the largest live audience ever assembled for a tennis match , showed up at the Astrodome , and some 48 million watched on television . After the first set , the outcome was never in doubt . Riggs puffed ...
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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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