American National Pastimes - A History

1. Preface: American National Pastimes 2. American National Pastimes: The Genealogy of an Idea 3. The Cyclical History of Horse Racing: The USA's Oldest and (Sometimes) Most Popular Spectator Sport 4. Hunting and American Identity: The Rise, Fall, Rise and Fall of an American Pastime 5. 'The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration': The Many Sordid Lives of America's Bloodiest 'Pastime' 6. Baseball As the National Pastime: A Fiction Whose Time Is Past 7. American Football Becomes the Dominant Intercollegiate National Pastime 8. Chronicle of a (Football) Death Foretold: The Imminent Demise of a National Pastime? 9. The Emergence of Basketball as an American National Pastime: From a Popular Participant Sport to a Spectacle of Nationhood 10. From Ladies' Days to Women's Initiatives: American Pastimes and Distaff Consumption 11. 'Black Athletes in White Men's Games': Race, Sport and American National Pastimes 12. Legislating Sport: Does Law Aid, Abet or Hinder National Pastimes? 13. National Sporting Pastimes, Spectacles of Sporting Otherness and American Imaginings, 1880 - 1920 14. A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes: Fads and Flashes-in-the-Pan, Nationwide and Regional Pastimes, the Pastimes of Other Nations, and Pan-National Pastimes