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A History of American Sports in 100 Objects

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Description for A History of American Sports in 100 Objects Hardcover. A history of American sports told through one hundred iconic objects Num Pages: 384 pages, 100 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; WSBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 244 x 36. Weight in Grams: 834.
What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, I'm sorry I bet on baseball ? Could it be Lance Armstrong's red-white-and-blue bike, now tarnished by doping and hubris? Or perhaps its ancestor, the nineteenth-century safety bicycle that opened an avenue of previously unknown freedom to women? The jerseys of rivals Larry Bird and Magic Johnson? Or the handball that Abraham Lincoln threw against a wall as he waited for news of his presidential nomination?From nearly forgotten heroes like Tad ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465097746
SKU
V9780465097746
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About Cait Murphy
Cait Murphy is an editor at McKinsey & Company. She previously worked for Fortune, the Economist, and the Asian Wall Street Journal. A mediocre athlete, she is the author of Crazy '08, about the 1908 baseball season. She lives in New York City.

Reviews for A History of American Sports in 100 Objects
Among the best vignettes in A History of American Sports in 100 Objects is one devoted to debunking some of the myths surrounding Jesse Owens' four-gold-medal performance in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, and another affirming Jackie Robinson's place in baseball and American history. -Washington Independent Review of Books Cait Murphy's A History of American Sports in ... Read more

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