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  • - Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding
    af David L. Chapman
    207,95 kr.

    Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was German-born Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. This book features the story of this first showman to emphasize physique display rather than lifting prowess.

  • af Robert J Turpin
    218,95 kr.

    "Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Robert J. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport's early days through the cementing of Jim Crow laws during the Progressive Era. As Turpin shows, Black cyclists used the bicycle not only as a vehicle but as a means of social mobility--a mobility that attracted white ire. Prominent Black cyclists like Marshall "Major" Taylor and Kitty Knox fought for equality amidst racist and increasingly pervasive restrictions. But Turpin also tells the stories of lesser-known athletes like Melvin Dove, whose actions spoke volumes about his opposition to the color line, and Hardy Jackson, a skilled racer forced to turn to stunt riding in vaudeville after Taylor became the only non-white permitted to race professionally in the United States. Eye-opening and long overdue, Black Cyclists uses race, technology, and mobility to explore a forgotten chapter in cycling history"--

  • af John M. Carroll
    210,95 kr.

    Before the Super Bowl, before Monday Night Football, even before the NFL, there was Red Grange. This title depicts the career of this soft spoken pioneer who helped lift pro football above its reputation as a dirty little business run by rogues and bargain-basement entrepreneurs.

  • - Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
    af Steven A. Riess
    217,95 kr.

    Examines the myths and the realities, symbols, and rituals of "America's favorite pastime." This book details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball, exploring how debates over issues such as Sunday games, ballpark construction, and the promotion of the game were shaped by Progressive Era sensibilities.

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    252,95 kr.

    Evaluates Ali's import outside the ring as cultural icon, antiwar protestor, and narcissist.

  • - The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    af Susan E. Cayleff
    252,95 kr.

  • - Recent Approaches and Perspectives
    af S W. Pope
    274,95 kr.

  • - Sport, Leisure, and Labor in Early Anglo-America
    af Nancy L. Struna
    217,95 kr.

  • af Michael T. Isenberg
    296,95 kr.

    Aims to make the reader feel the lure of the boxing ring.

  • - A Critique and Reconstruction
    af William J. Morgan
    352,95 kr.

  • - SPORT IN BLACK PITTSBURGH
    af Rob Ruck
    242,95 kr.

  • - ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF SPORTS MEDICINE
     
    274,95 kr.

  • af J. A. Mangan & Paul D. Staudohar
    252,95 kr.

  • - The Role of Boxing in American Society
    af Jeffrey T. Sammons
    231,95 kr.

    Documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. The author confirms the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters, and the traditional racism of the American ring.

  • - 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City
     
    231,95 kr.

    A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

  • af George B. Kirsch
    193,95 kr.

    An inclusive narrative of golf's history and popularity in the United States

  • - The Rock of His Times
    af Russell Sullivan
    189,95 kr.

    Talks about the life, career, and impact of Rocky Marciano, the legendary heavyweight boxing champion who also stands as a powerful symbol of his times.

  • - The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports
    af Steven A. Riess
    252,95 kr.

  • - Intellectualising Combat Sports
     
    517,95 kr.

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    507,95 kr.

    Legacy remains one of the most important issues relating to multisport mega-events across the globe and it could be argued that the development of legacy is one of the most urgent imperatives in elite sport. In this regard the Paralympics is no exception to the quest for long term legacy; however, little in the way of documentation appears to be forthcoming from the International Paralympic community in this regard. This book reviews the concept of legacy across previous Paralympic Games by providing a series of chapters under the headings of ''The Paralympic Legacy Debate'', ''Paralympic City Legacies'', ''Emerging Issues of Paralympic Legacy'' and ''Reconceptualising Paralympic Legacies''. The issues arising are discussed in terms of a meta-analysis of the author''s work and offer interesting ideas which if taken up by the International Paralympic Committee, International Olympic Committee, Bid Committees, OCOG''s and major sports could change the face of Paralympic legacy towards the positive forever.

  • - 50th Anniversary Edition
    af Harry Edwards
    178,95 - 277,95 kr.

  • - Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
    af Toby C. Rider
    231,95 - 1.022,95 kr.

  • af Matthew P. Llewellyn & John Gleaves
    178,95 - 1.022,95 kr.

  • - A Global History
    af Stephen Hardy & Andrew C. Holman
    274,95 - 1.152,95 kr.

  • - A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
    af Daniel A. Nathan
    252,95 kr.

    The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in collective consciousness. This interdisciplinary cultural history focuses on how it has been represented and remembered by journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans.

  • - Gender Policing in Women's Sports
    af Lindsay Pieper
    207,95 - 1.022,95 kr.

  • - The Life of Billy Conn
    af Andrew O'Toole
    180,95 kr.

    A tribute to Billy Conn, one of the greatest light-heavyweight boxing champions of all time

  • af Richard D. Mandell
    352,95 kr.

    The Nazi Olympics is the unsurpassed expose of one of the most bizarre festivals in sport history. Not only does it provide incisive portraits of such key figures as Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Leni Riefenstahl, Helen Stephens, Kee Chung Sohn, and Avery Brundage, it also vividly conveys the entire dazzling charade that reinforced and mobilized the hysterical patriotism of the German masses.

  • - The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games
    af Robert Barney & Stephen R Wenn
    210,95 - 1.022,95 kr.

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