This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of competition in contemporary American sport. Against the backdrop of athletic competition, this work traces American sport from its traditional place in American culture to the influence of the 1960s counterculture and the resulting rise of a post-Cold War ethos that continues to reinterpret competitiveness as a relic of a misbegotten past and anathema to American life.

The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Changes in Attitudes Toward Competition

Sports & Outdoors

Rosen, Joel Nathan

Miscellaneous

McFarland Publishing

<p>This updated text re-examines the retreat from the traditions of American sport as expressed in a highly complex mix of nascent ideologies posed as an antidote to the dangers of historical conventions. These competing images of how a better future might manifest informs contemporary American life through an ongoing clash of ideologies that has fueled debate about, among other matters, the future of competitive sport.</p>

The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos ... Reconsidered

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Transformative Studies Institute

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations―Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball’s elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseball’s desegregation narrative in a critical and wide-ranging fashion.

Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

Business & Money

Newman, Roberta J.

Economics

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

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