American Sport in International History

Dedication
List of Illustrations

Part I: The Huddled Masses
Immigration And The Emergence Of Modern Sport in America
Basketball and Urban Space
Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing
American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement
America and the Modern Olympic Movement
Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games
The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris
The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World's Fair
Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry and the 1908 London Games
Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games
Baseball and American Empire
Foreigners to Fans
Cannons in the Outfield
Baseball's World Tours
Conjuring the National Pastime
Notes

Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe

Part II: In Service of the State
The Growing Business of Baseball
Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media
The Negro Leagues and Baseball's Continued Growth Abroad
Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport
Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America
Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist Twenties and Thirties
The Olympics and War
Olympic Growth in the Twenties and Thirties
Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
US Sport in World War II
Notes

Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Part III: The Dawn of the Activist Athlete
Post-War Professional Sport in America
The NFL Sets the Edge
The Making of the NBA
Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball's Integration after World War II
Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War
The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights
Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War
Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport
Muhammad Ali v The United States

Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index