by Donald J. Mrozek
University of Tennessee Press, 1983
Paper: 978-0-87049-395-9
Library of Congress Classification GV583.M76 1983
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.0973

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Today's interest in sports in America has its roots in the period from 1880–1940. As Mrozek shows, famous and forgotten figures and athletes helped shaped the modern craze.  A national interest in sports could only be sustained after the upper classes ceased opposing organized sports.