Sport and the law : historical and cultural intersections / edited by Samuel O. Regalado, Sarah K. Fields.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Regalado, Samuel O. (Samuel Octavio), 1953- editor.

Fields, Sarah K., 1968- editor.

Series:

Sport, culture & society.

Sport, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Law and legislation--United States.

Sports.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, Arkansas : University of Arkansas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Samuel O. Regalado is professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus and the author or editor of four books, including <i>Baseball in Nikkei America: From the Meiji to the Majors</i>.<br><br>Sarah K. Fields is associate professor of communication at University of Colorado Denver and the author of <i>Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America</i>.</div>

Contents:

Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Section I: The Burger Supreme Court and Sport; Chapter Two: Clay, aka Ali v. U.S. (1971); Chapter Three: Odd Bedfellows; Chapter Four: The Flood Case, 1972; Chapter Five: How the Burger Court Came to Be; Section II: Antitrust Law and Sport; Chapter Six: Danny Gardella and Baseball's Reserve Clause; Chapter Seven: Powerlifting's Watershed; Section III: The Impact of Sport on Law and Law on Sport; Chapter Eight: Thirty-Five Years after Richards v. USTA; Chapter Nine: "Clean Up the Abuses"

Chapter Ten: "A Matter of Basic Fairness"Chapter Eleven: Epilogue; Thoughts Regarding Scholarly Methods; Notes; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610755498

1610755499

OCLC:

899008545