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A People's History Of Sports In The United States - 250 Years of Politics, Protest, the People, the Play (Paperback)
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A People's History Of Sports In The United States - 250 Years of Politics, Protest, the People, the Play (Paperback)
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List price R525
Loot Price R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
You Save R86 (16%)
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In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of
sportswriting, whose blog "The Edge of Sports" is read each week by
thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a
riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting
characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative
history of the United States as seen through the games its people
played. Through Zirin's eyes, sports are never mere games, but a
reflection of-and spur toward-the political conflicts that shape
American society. Half a century before Jackie Robinson was born,
the black ballplayer Moses Fleetwood Walker brandished a revolver
to keep racist fans at bay, then took his regular place in the
lineup. In the midst of the Depression, when almost no black
athletes were allowed on the U.S. Olympic team, athletes held a
Counter Olympics where a third of the participants were African
American. A People's History of Sports in the United States is
replete with surprises for seasoned sports fans, while anyone
interested in history will be amazed by the connections Zirin draws
between politics and pop flies. As Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop
Won't Stop, puts it, "After you read him, you'll never see sports
the same way again."
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