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Sports in America
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- Summary
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A collection of reprinted essays and articles exploring selected aspects of organized American sports.
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- Creator
- edited by Janet Podell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Wilson, 1986
- Physical Details
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- 160 pages ; 19 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780824207137, 0824207130
- OCLC
- ocm12721518
- Bibliography: pages 156-160.
- The playing fields of the mind / Edwin Kiester, Jr. -- Medicine catches up with the sports boom / C.G. Conniff James -- Sports biomechanics / Dwight B. Davis -- The steroid predicament / Terry Todd -- Telecommunications and sports / Larry Gerlach -- Trying to limit out-of-the-ballpark salaries in professional sports / Robert Kilborn Jr. -- Cocaine disrupts baseball from field to front office / Murray Chass with Michael Goodwin -- Educating the Black athletes / Harry Edwards -- For whom the bell tolls / Patrick Cooke -- Violence: out of hand in the stands / Bil Gilbert and Lisa Twyman -- Blood in the stands / Richard Lacayo -- Why we play these games / Roger Rosenblatt -- How they're keeping the Olympics honest / Alvin P. Sanoff with Juanita R. Hogue and Steve L. Hawkins -- Money and hypocrisy / Pete Axthelm with Martin Kasindorf -- Overhaul the Olympics / Leonard Koppett