Horsehide, pigskin, oval tracks and apple pie : essays on sports and American culture /
Essays on sports and American culture
edited by James A. Vlasich.
- ix, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The fireman and the mitt : the 1941 New York Yankees-Brooklyn Dodgers World Series / Eight ways of looking at a Musial / "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" - Italian Americans and baseball / Ichiro, Godzilla, and the American dream : Japanese players in Major League Baseball / Tiger Woods : golf's modern catalyst for change / The masters on trial : culture wars over women members at Augusta National Gold Club / "On the threshold of broad and rich football pastures" : integrated college football at UCLA, 1938-1941 / Holy war on the football field : religion and the Florida State University Indian mascot controversy / New Orleans becomes a big league city : the NFL-AFL merger and the creation of the New Orleans Saints / Weekend warriors : the survival and revival of American dirt-track racing / Racing's roots in the Virginia landscape / Kickin' up dirt and puttin' down roots : Keith Simmons and NASCAR's Dodge weekly racing series in Eastern Iowa / The NASCAR fan as emotional stakeholder : changing the sport, changing the fan culture / Marketing multiple mythologies of masculinity : television advertising and the National Hockey League / Social class and fishing : fly fishers vs. the other / Ali's last hurrah / Bruce A. Rubenstein -- Joseph Stanton -- Joseph Dorinson -- Yasue Kuwahara -- Donna J. Barbie -- Tom Cook -- Lane Demas -- Arthur J. Remillard -- Michael S. Martin -- Daniel Simone and Kendra Myers -- Brian Katen -- David "Turbo" Thompson -- Barbara S. Hugenberg and Lawrence W. Hugenberg -- Kimberly Tony Korol -- John F. Bratzel -- Pete Williams. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.