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City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (SPS) [Hardcover]

Steven A. Riess (Author)

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"Riess has dug deeply into the urban roots of our national obsession. City Games is valuable reading for anyone interested in America's cities or America's sports." -- Stephen Hardy, author of How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 332 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (September 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252015738
ISBN-13: 978-0252015731

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The book has hard-to-find information on Industrial League games. I was delighted to find the content that I did and will be featuring the book in an August exhibit on Industrial Games.

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First Sentence:
American cities did not have much of a sporting culture in 1820, when just 5 percent of the national population lived in cities. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
industrialized radial city, male bachelor subculture, municipal park movement, proprietary tracks, vile amusements, semipublic sites, semipublic facilities, moral sports, semipublic buildings, prestigious tracks, sporting heritage, sporting fraternity, urban pathology, urban sport, traction magnates, sports entrepreneurs, playground movement, suburban parks, hometown pride, professional team sports, track operators, slum residents

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Civil War, United States, World War, San Francisco, Polo Grounds, Madison Square Garden, South Side, Lower East Side, New Jersey, Washington Park, Jerome Park, Coney Island, Long Island, Kansas City, Chicago Historical Society, Ebbets Field, National League, Tim Sullivan, Yankee Stadium, August Belmont, Belmont Park, Elysian Fields

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Negro in Chicago: Cb: A study of race relations and a race riot (1922) (American Negro) by Chicago Commission on Race Relations in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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