商品簡介
In order to shed light on the growth of professional sports and how Americans spent their leisure time, this volume in the series profiles over a century of real-life professional and amateur athletes and others connected to the business of sports, including referees, coaches, a baseball stadium vendor, and a sportswriter, for a total of 36 men and women representing 18 American states. In addition to the well-known sports and recreational activities represented, there are profiles of an ultimate Frisbee player, a professional strongman, an archer, and a Yale University oarsman. The profiles include bulleted chronologies of key events in the person's home and work life, and events and conditions in the place they lived and the sport they played. Each decade chapter also includes an introduction, timelines, news articles, prices of common items, and b&w photos, illustrations, postcards, cartoons, and other ephemera, to give readers a glimpse into the period. Information on the author is not given. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
