Download or read book Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century written by Tim Crothers and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial: John B. Harhai.
Download or read book Great Athletes of the 20th Century written by Jack Kavanagh and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sportswriters Kavanagh and Tackach survey baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, ice hockey, tennis, and the Olympics to profile 100 of the century's greatest competitors. Each biography is accompanied by outstanding color and black and white action photos.
Download or read book 20 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century written by Brad Herzog and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All American written by Bill Crawford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Great American Athletes of the 20th Century written by Zander Hollander and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1972 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of fifty American athletes who represent eleven different sports.
Download or read book The Heritage written by Howard Bryant and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world’s worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and cheering for the home team was as easy and innocent as hot dogs and beer. “No news on the sports page” was a governing principle in newsrooms. That was then. Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. Teams wear camouflage jerseys to honor those who serve; police officers throw out first pitches; soldiers surprise their families with homecomings at halftime. Sports and politics are decidedly entwined. But as journalist Howard Bryant reveals, this has always been more complicated for black athletes, who from the start, were committing a political act simply by being on the field. In fact, among all black employees in twentieth-century America, perhaps no other group had more outsized influence and power than ballplayers. The immense social responsibilities that came with the role is part of the black athletic heritage. It is a heritage built by the influence of the superstardom and radical politics of Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos through the 1960s; undermined by apolitical, corporate-friendly “transcenders of race,” O. J. Simpson, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods in the following decades; and reclaimed today by the likes of LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and Carmelo Anthony. The Heritage is the story of the rise, fall, and fervent return of the athlete-activist. Through deep research and interviews with some of sports’ best-known stars—including Kaepernick, David Ortiz, Charles Barkley, and Chris Webber—as well as members of law enforcement and the military, Bryant details the collision of post-9/11 sports in America and the politically engaged post-Ferguson black athlete.
Download or read book ESPN SportsCentury written by ESPN (TV network) and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, has combined its considerable resources with the talents of some of sports' most renowned authors, academics, commentators, and observers to create this memorable chronicle of sports in our century. ESPN SportsCentury is a fitting tribute to the greatest athletes, best teams, biggest games, and most unforgettable moments, which have enthralled us while also influencing our political, social, and cultural development as a nation. Book jacket.
Download or read book A Spectacular Leap written by Jennifer H. Lansbury and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. From the 1920s, when black women athletes were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women's track and field, African American women found sport opened the door to a better life. However, they also discovered that success meant challenging perceptions that many Americans--both black and white--held of them. Through the stories of six athletes--Coachman, Ora Washington, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph, Wyomia Tyus, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee--Jennifer H. Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement. Uncovering the various strategies the athletes use to beat back stereotypes, Lansbury explores the fullness of African American women's relationship with sport in the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Fifty Finest Athletes of the 20th Century written by Robert J. Condon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles superachievers in thirteen different sports, grouped in the categories "The Top Twenty, " "The Runners-up, " and "The Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century."
Download or read book The Perfect Mile written by Neal Bascomb and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Great Women Athletes of the 20th Century written by Robert J. Condon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographical information on such women athletes as Oakley, Didrikson, Gibson, and Comaneci.
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 100 Greatest Players written by Ron Smith and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Wonder Girl written by Don Van Natta Jr. and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world. A rollicking saga, stretching across the first half of the 20th century, Wonder Girl is as fresh, heartfelt, and graceful as Babe herself.
Download or read book Sport and the Color Line written by Patrick B. Miller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented in this text examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis.
Download or read book Bobbie Rosenfeld written by Anne Dublin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago sports were more about challenge than about money, and women athletes had to fight just to be able to compete. But one woman astonished everyone. She made a fool out of anyone who said women weren't tough enough for sports.
Download or read book The Best American Sports Writing of the Century written by David Halberstam and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the century's greatest moments in every sport from basseball to chess, these authors (Red Smith, Tom Boswell, John Updike, Jim Murray, Norman Mailer, W.C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, David Remnick, Ring Lardner, Gay Talese, William Nack, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Jon Krakauer) and their subjects (including Joe DiMaggio, Secretariat, Bobby Knight, and Muhammad Ali) reflect the rising societal importance of sports in this century, showing how sports have been shaped by such monumental events as war, the civil rights movement, and the changing economyomy.
