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Horsehide, pigskin, oval tracks and apple pie : essays on sports and American culture / edited by James A. Vlasich.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: ix, 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0786423978
  • 9780786423972
Other title:
  • Essays on sports and American culture
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5 .H67 2006
Contents:
1. The fireman and the mitt : the 1941 New York Yankees-Brooklyn Dodgers World Series / Bruce A. Rubenstein -- 2. Eight ways of looking at a Musial / Joseph Stanton -- 3. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" - Italian Americans and baseball / Joseph Dorinson -- 4. Ichiro, Godzilla, and the American dream : Japanese players in Major League Baseball / Yasue Kuwahara -- 5. Tiger Woods : golf's modern catalyst for change / Donna J. Barbie -- 6. The masters on trial : culture wars over women members at Augusta National Gold Club / Tom Cook -- 7. "On the threshold of broad and rich football pastures" : integrated college football at UCLA, 1938-1941 / Lane Demas -- 8. Holy war on the football field : religion and the Florida State University Indian mascot controversy / Arthur J. Remillard -- 9. New Orleans becomes a big league city : the NFL-AFL merger and the creation of the New Orleans Saints / Michael S. Martin -- 10. Weekend warriors : the survival and revival of American dirt-track racing / Daniel Simone and Kendra Myers -- 11. Racing's roots in the Virginia landscape / Brian Katen -- 12. Kickin' up dirt and puttin' down roots : Keith Simmons and NASCAR's Dodge weekly racing series in Eastern Iowa / David "Turbo" Thompson -- 13. The NASCAR fan as emotional stakeholder : changing the sport, changing the fan culture / Barbara S. Hugenberg and Lawrence W. Hugenberg -- 14. Marketing multiple mythologies of masculinity : television advertising and the National Hockey League / Kimberly Tony Korol -- 15. Social class and fishing : fly fishers vs. the other / John F. Bratzel -- 16. Ali's last hurrah / Pete Williams.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.483 HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A402485B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The fireman and the mitt : the 1941 New York Yankees-Brooklyn Dodgers World Series / Bruce A. Rubenstein -- 2. Eight ways of looking at a Musial / Joseph Stanton -- 3. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" - Italian Americans and baseball / Joseph Dorinson -- 4. Ichiro, Godzilla, and the American dream : Japanese players in Major League Baseball / Yasue Kuwahara -- 5. Tiger Woods : golf's modern catalyst for change / Donna J. Barbie -- 6. The masters on trial : culture wars over women members at Augusta National Gold Club / Tom Cook -- 7. "On the threshold of broad and rich football pastures" : integrated college football at UCLA, 1938-1941 / Lane Demas -- 8. Holy war on the football field : religion and the Florida State University Indian mascot controversy / Arthur J. Remillard -- 9. New Orleans becomes a big league city : the NFL-AFL merger and the creation of the New Orleans Saints / Michael S. Martin -- 10. Weekend warriors : the survival and revival of American dirt-track racing / Daniel Simone and Kendra Myers -- 11. Racing's roots in the Virginia landscape / Brian Katen -- 12. Kickin' up dirt and puttin' down roots : Keith Simmons and NASCAR's Dodge weekly racing series in Eastern Iowa / David "Turbo" Thompson -- 13. The NASCAR fan as emotional stakeholder : changing the sport, changing the fan culture / Barbara S. Hugenberg and Lawrence W. Hugenberg -- 14. Marketing multiple mythologies of masculinity : television advertising and the National Hockey League / Kimberly Tony Korol -- 15. Social class and fishing : fly fishers vs. the other / John F. Bratzel -- 16. Ali's last hurrah / Pete Williams.

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