Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926

by Steven W. Pope

Book Overview

In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. During these years, basketball was invented, football became a mass spectator event, and baseball soared to its status as the "national pasttime." Pope demonstrates how America's sporting tradition emerged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195091337
• ISBN13: 9780195091335
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"