Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2206

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Author: James Edward Sullivan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333155179
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Excerpt from Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac for 1906: Containing Complete List of American Best on Records; Official Report of Athletics at Lewis and Clark Exposition This is the twelfth annual edition Oi Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac, which is to-day the only recognized Amateur Athletic Almanac published in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 962

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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Author: Ellen Douglas Larned
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding
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Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.

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Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Alan S. Katchen
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815609391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Abel Kiviat (1892-1991) was one of track and field’s legendary personalities, a world record-holder and Olympic medalist in the metric mile. A teenage prodigy, he defeated Hall of Fame runners before his twentieth birthday. Alan S. Katchen brings Kiviat’s fascinating story to life and re-creates a lost world, when track and field was at the height of its popularity and occupying a central place in America’s sporting world. The oldest of seven children of Moishe and Zelda Kiviat, Jewish immigrants from Poland, Abel competed as "the Hebrew runner" for New York’s famed Irish-American Athletic Club and was elected its captain. Katchen’s engaging biography centers Abel Kiviat’s life and his sport firmly in the context of American social history. As a quintessential New Yorker, Kiviat embodies the urban and ethnic roots of American track. From his first schoolboy competitions on city playgrounds, to his world records at Madison Square Garden, to his pioneering role as track’s press steward in the age of emerging media, Kiviat’s life reveals how his sport was shaped by the culture of the emerging metropolis. New York City is not only the setting for these developments but also a subject of the book. The narration is enriched with brief portraits of celebrated track athletes including Kiviat’s Olympic roommate, Jim Thorpe. In addition, Katchen offers a detailed account of the I-AAC’s evolution, including its close ties to the Tammany Hall political machine, and sheds light on the rapid modernization of the sport and the ways it provided a vehicle for the assimilation of working-class, immigrant athletes. Finally, Katchen explores the social origins of the ideology of amateurism and its devastating impact on Kiviat’s career. Kiviat died at ninety-nine, just months short of carrying the torch for the opening ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympics. Abel Kiviat, National Champion pays tribute to a remarkable athlete and the sport during its most dynamic and celebrated era.

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Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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