Author: Publisher:
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Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac
Author: Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac
Author: Spalding's Athletic Almanac
Author: Spalding's Official Base Ball Record
Author: Charles D. White (Harvard local name)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Abel Kiviat, National Champion
Author: Alan S. KatchenPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815609391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Abel Kiviat (1892-1991) was one of track and field’s legendary personalities, a world record-holder and Olympic medalist in the metric mile. A teenage prodigy, he defeated Hall of Fame runners before his twentieth birthday. Alan S. Katchen brings Kiviat’s fascinating story to life and re-creates a lost world, when track and field was at the height of its popularity and occupying a central place in America’s sporting world. The oldest of seven children of Moishe and Zelda Kiviat, Jewish immigrants from Poland, Abel competed as "the Hebrew runner" for New York’s famed Irish-American Athletic Club and was elected its captain. Katchen’s engaging biography centers Abel Kiviat’s life and his sport firmly in the context of American social history. As a quintessential New Yorker, Kiviat embodies the urban and ethnic roots of American track. From his first schoolboy competitions on city playgrounds, to his world records at Madison Square Garden, to his pioneering role as track’s press steward in the age of emerging media, Kiviat’s life reveals how his sport was shaped by the culture of the emerging metropolis. New York City is not only the setting for these developments but also a subject of the book. The narration is enriched with brief portraits of celebrated track athletes including Kiviat’s Olympic roommate, Jim Thorpe. In addition, Katchen offers a detailed account of the I-AAC’s evolution, including its close ties to the Tammany Hall political machine, and sheds light on the rapid modernization of the sport and the ways it provided a vehicle for the assimilation of working-class, immigrant athletes. Finally, Katchen explores the social origins of the ideology of amateurism and its devastating impact on Kiviat’s career. Kiviat died at ninety-nine, just months short of carrying the torch for the opening ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympics. Abel Kiviat, National Champion pays tribute to a remarkable athlete and the sport during its most dynamic and celebrated era.
Official Athletic Almanac of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1919
Author: Wait Chatterton JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer
Author: The Athletic Finn
Author: K. P. SilbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
New Orleans Sports
Author: Thomas AielloPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756703
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city’s culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three countries. This cultural mélange also manifests in the city’s approach to sport, where each game is steeped in the city’s history. Tracing that history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city’s sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business development to expand that historiography—currently dominated by a text that stops at 1900—into the twentieth century, offering a modern examination of sports in the city.
News Notes of California Libraries
Author: California State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.