A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70Traces the development of modern sports in nineteenth-century New York, including baseball, cricket, horse and harness racing, yachting, billiards, and boxing, and describes the emergence of national standards and commercial involvement |
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Contents
The Changing Character of New York City | 13 |
Sports of the Turf Thoroughbreds and Trotters | 27 |
The Early Modernization of Horse Racing 182045 | 45 |
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| Title | A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70 Sports and society Sps Series |
| Author | Melvin Leonard Adelman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 9, 2008 |
| ISBN | 025201250X, 9780252012501 |
| Length | 388 pages |
| Subjects | › Sports & Recreation / History |
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