Big Leagues: Professional Baseball, Football, and Basketball in National Memory - Hardcover

Fox, Stephen R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688093000 ISBN 13: 9780688093006

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1994

Synopsis

Vivid anecdotes and obscure facts, compiled by a historian and avid sports fan, discuss the evolution of baseball, football, and basketball; rescues forgotten heroes from obscurity; and offers new perspectives on established legends. 50,000 first printing. $57,500 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Fox is an independent scholar who lives in Massachusetts. He has written such highly praised books as The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators and Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection of nine original essays on America's major spectator sports by the author of Blood and Power contains much information that even dedicated fans are unlikely to know. In the first piece, "Going Airborne," Fox makes the point that all three games increased their popularity when they got the ball off the ground via the home run, forward pass and jump shot. Other chapters examine fandom, the impact of black athletes in speeding up game play and what Fox terms "National Teams," the Yankees of the '20s and '30s, the Green Bay Packers and the Boston Celtics of the '60s. He gives brief but nonetheless comprehensive histories of the three sports and concludes with "Big Money," showing the effects of booze, drugs and unlimited, freely available sex on individuals from economically deprived backgrounds. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0688093000
• ISBN 13: 9780688093006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 522