A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of American sport Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track and field Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization, technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports biography Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

A Companion to American Sport History presents acollection of original essays that represent the firstcomprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing fieldof American sport history.* Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarshiprelating to the academic history of American sport* Features contributions from many of the finest scholars workingin the field of American sport history* Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonialtimes to the present day, including major sports such as baseballfootball, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and trackand field* Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanizationtechnology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sportsbiographyAwarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Steven A. RiessPart I Major Chronological Eras of Sport History 111 The Emergence of Sport: A Historiographical Appraisal of Sportin America through 1865 13James C. Schneider2 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1865-192032Gerald R. Gems3 The Interwar and Post-World War II Eras, 1920-196060Ryan Swanson4 Sport Since the 1960s 84Russ CrawfordPart II Historical Processes and Sport 1075 Scientific Habits of Mind, Technological Revolutions, andAmerican Sport 109Mark Dyreson6 Urbanization and American Sport 130Joseph C. BigottPart III Major Team Sports 1537 Baseball Before 1920 155Leslie Heaphy8 Baseball Since 1920 177Rebecca T. Alpert9 Reconciling the Consequences of Modernity: College Football asCultural History 202Kurt Edward Kemper10 Professional Football 221Anthony Santoro11 Basketball 246Aram GoudsouzianPart IV Major Individual Sports 26912 Boxing: The Manly Art 271Randy Roberts and Andrew R. M. Smith13 Golf and Tennis 292Robert Pruter14 American Motor Sport: The Checkered Literature on theCheckered Flag 313David N. Lucsko15 Historians, Track Stars, and Amateurism: Retrospect andProspects 334Alan S. KatchenPart V Sport, Government, and the Global Society 35716 The United States and International Sport: A Historiography359Nicholas Evan Sarantakes17 The United States in the Modern Olympic Movement: AHistoriography 379Robert K. BarneyPart VI Sport and Social History 40318 Historians Take on Ethnicity, Race, and Sport 405Gerald R. Gems19 The African American Athlete 434Louis Moore20 Class and Sport 454Steven A. Riess21 Manhood or Masculinity: The Historiography of Manliness inAmerican Sport 479Brian M. Ingrassia22 Women in American Sport History 500Linda J. BorishPart VII Sport and Capitalism 52123 Explaining Exceptionalism: Approaches to the Study ofAmerican Sports Business History 523J. Andrew Ross24 Sport and the Media 552James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr25 Stadiums, Arenas, and Audiences 577Robert C. TrumpbourPart VIII Sport and Culture 59926 Sport and American Religion 601Richard Kimball27 Not Always "Natural": A Historiography of Sportin American Culture 615Kevin B. Witherspoon28 Sports Biographies 634Maureen SmithIndex 656