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Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agre

Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of b

Few observers of American life today would doubt that sports occupy a prominent place in our society, but equally few have examined the origins of the country's

In The New American Sport History sixteen scholars, many of them among the best known in the field, explore topics as diverse as the historical debate over blac

A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the gr