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Sports in Chicago
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- Creator
- edited by Elliott J. Gorn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press ; Chicago : Chicago History Museum, [2008]
- ©2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252033179, 0252033175, 9780252075230, 0252075234
- OCLC
- ocn176980905
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Sports and identity in Chicago / Gerald Gems -- The rise of early Chicago soccer / Gabe Logan -- Closing down the open city: the demise of boxing and horse racing in Chicago / Steven A. Riess -- Jewish women, sports, and Chicago history / Linda J. Borish -- Baseball palace of the world: commercial recreation and the building of Comiskey Park / Robin F. Bachin -- Serbs, sports, and whiteness / Peter T. Alter -- "A dirty rotten shame": the Black Sox scandal and American culture / Daniel A. Nathan -- plow that broke the midway: Bronko Nagurski / Timothy Spears -- "An inalienable right to play": African American participation in the Catholic Youth Organization / Timothy B. Neary -- An athlete dying young: Kenny Hubbs, memory, and the Chicago Cubs / Richard Kimball -- social logic of boxing in black Chicago: toward a sociology of pugilism / Loïc J. D. Wacquant -- Recent stadium development projects in Chicago: a tale of three neighborhoods Costas Spirou, Larry Bennett -- Chicago sports! You shoulda' been there: an exhibition / John Russick -- Epilogue: where hope goes to die / Elliott Gorn