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Steven A. Riess
Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early
Autor:
Steven A. Riess
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 both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting race
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Steven A. Riess
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Transatlantica, Vol 2
American jockeys for most of the nineteenth century were African Americans. It was a dangerous occupation that paid extremely well for successful jockeys. These riders were pushed out of this occupation, as jockeys became recognized as important fact
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Steven A. Riess
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age. :191-220
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Steven A. Riess
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age. :1-36
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Steven A. Riess
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Journal of Sport History. 48:312-328
This essay examines the evolution of sport history, once a disdained subject among scholars, into a vital and respectable topic of inquiry, focusing on the North American Society for Sport History's (NASSH) fifty-year effort to achieve that status. U
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Steven A. Riess
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-). 112:265-292
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Steven A. Riess
The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progress