| The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City Contributor(s): Riess, Steven A. (Editor), Gems, Gerald R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 025207615X ISBN-13: 9780252076152 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | History - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
| Dewey: 796.097 |
| LCCN: 2008037209 |
| Series: Sport and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.02" W x 8.94" (1.33 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines Chicago's long and glorious history of recreational and competitive sport, and as the home of the finest sporting events and most loyal fans in the United States. This indispensable collection surveys the essential events and main teams in the city's sports history--the Bears, the Cubs, the White Sox, the Black Hawks, and the Bulls--as well as great Chicago sports legends Red Grange, Michael Jordan, and others. The authors also examine more specialized sports such as racing, cycling, and women's baseball. In addition to examining the highlights of Chicago sport, The Chicago Sports Reader also acknowledges a few lowlights, such as the role of organized crime, the Cubs' demise in 1969, and the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919. Contributors are George D. Bushnell, Susan K. Cahn, John M. Carroll, David Claerbaut, Bruce J. Evensen, Gerald R. Gems, Walter LeFeber, Robin Dale Lester, Michael E. Lomax, Daniel A. Nathan, Steven A. Riess, Cord Scott, and John Chi-Kit Wong. |