
A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70
- List Price: $39.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2007
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"The most important work on sports in nineteenth-century America since John R. Betts' classic America's Sporting Heritage . Adelman offers a major reinterpretation of the relationship between sports and urban life, well anchored by extensive research and perceptive analysis."--Jules Tygiel, author of Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
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