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Philly sports : teams, games, and athletes from Rocky's town / edited by Ryan A. Swanson and David K. Wiggins.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Ph GV 584.5 .P46 P46 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
- Sport, Culture & Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Sports.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1.Wickedness and the Holy Experiment: Sports in Colonial Philadelphia / Courtney Smith
- 2.Black Baseball's Pioneers: The Philadelphia Pythians / Michael E. Lomax
- 3.Philadelphia Cricket Comes of Age: The Movement for Consolidation and Centralization, 1874
- 95 / J. Thomas Jable
- 4.How Did They Compete?: Philadelphia High Schools Girls' Sports, 1904
- 44 / Catherine D'Lgnazio
- 5.The Philadelphia Eagles, the Crisis of Post
- World War II Masculinity, and the Rise of Pro Football, 1946
- 60 / Stephen H. Norwood
- 6.Bigger Than His Britches: Wilt Chamberlin and Philadelphia / Aram Goudsouzian
- 7.The Philadelphia Jewish Y's: Sport and Physical Health in American Culture / Linda J. Borish
- 8."Blood Stirs the Fight Crowd": Making and Marking Joe Frazier's Philadelphia / Andrew R. M. Smith
- 9.Philadelphia's Greatest Sports Hero?: The Case for Rocky Balboa / Jaime Schultz
- 10.Making Ice (Hockey) in Philadelphia: Leadership, Organization, and the Tale of Two NHL Franchises / John Wong
- 11.The Game That Made Penn Basketball Great: Penn vs. Villanova, January 1969 / Chris Elzey
- 12.More Than "An Ugly Cement Doughnut": Veterans Stadium and the Philadelphia Phillies / Christopher Threston
- 13.Philadelphia's Buried Treasures / David Zang
- 14.The Penn Relays: Celebrating the "Black Woodstock of West Philly" / Dennis Gildea
- 15.A Philadelphia Nocturne / Mike Tanier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
- ISBN:
- 1557281874
- 9781557281876
- OCLC:
- 949204596
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