Sport in America: From Wicked Amusement to National Obsession (book)

the interdependence among sport, physical education, and other health professions.

Students and scholars will appreciate the variety of perspectives and the opportunity to explore the diversity of America's sporting past.

AUDIENCE

Supplemental text for sport history classes and reference for scholars in sport history

CONTENTS

Part I. The Pattern of Sport in Early America

Introduction Puritans at Play?: Accusations and Replies, Allen Guttmann Gender and Sporting Practice in Early America, 1750-1810, Nancy L. Struna Suggested Readings

Part II. Health, Exercise, and Sport in a Rapidly Changing Society, 1820-1870

Introduction Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch: The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry, Elliott J. Gorn Sport and Popular Pastimes: Shadow of the Slavequarter, David K. Wiggins Embodied Selves: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games, and Recreation for American Women, 1776-1865, Roberta J. Park The First Modern Sport in America: Harness Racing in New York City, 1825-1870, Melvin L. Adelman Suggested Readings

Introduction The Country of the Young: The Meaning of Baseball in Early American Culture, Ronald Story Adopted by All the Leading Clubs: Sporting Goods and the Shaping of Leisure, Stephen Hardy Preludes to the NCAA: Early Failures of Faculty Intercollegiate Athletic Control, Ronald A. Smith Sports and Machine Politics in New York City, 1870-1920, Steven A. Riess

Introduction School Sports as Social Training: The Case of Athletics and the Crisis of World War I, Timothy P. O'Hanlon The Emergence of Consumer Culture and the Transformation of Physical Culture: American Sport in the 1920s, Mark Dyreson The Playing Fields of St. Louis: Italian Immigrants and Sports, 1925-1941, Gary Ross Mormino Sport and Community in California's Japanese American "Yamato Colony", 1930-1945, Samuel O. Regalado Suggested Readings

Part V. Transformation of Sport in the Age of Television, Discord, and Personal Fulfillment, 1945-Present

Introduction The Cult and Ritual of Toughness in Cold War America, Donald J. Mrozek The Roone Revolution, Randy Roberts and James Olson Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport, Terry Todd The Philosophical Conflicts in Men's and Women's Collegiate Athletics, Joan S. Hult Hot Spicks Versus Cool Spades: Three Notes Toward a Cultural Definition of Prizefighting, Gerald Early Suggested Readings

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David K. Wiggins is director of undergraduate health science programs and professor of physical education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Since earning his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1979, Wiggins has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in sport history at Kansas State University and George Mason University.

Wiggins is an expert on American sport, particularly as it relates to the involvement of black athletes in sport and physical activity. Since 1980, he has written about sport history and published articles in numerous journals, including the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Journal of Sport History, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, and The International Journal of History of Sport. His work has garnered two American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Research (AAHPERD) Writing Awards (1984 and 1986) and significantly affected subsequent research studies on African American involvement in sport.

In addition to his memberships in AAHPERD and the North American Society for Sport History, Wiggins has served as President of the AAHPERD History Academy and on the Publications Board of The Journal of Sport History. He has held editorships and memberships on various committees of professional societies dealing with sport history.

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