How Boston Played : Sport, Recreation, and Community, 1865-1915 /

How Boston Played is a double delight. It chronicles the birth of Boston sports from early Redstockings games and college rowing regattas, to the exploits of the "Boston Strong Boy," John L. Sullivan. Looking beyond just sporting events, though, it seeks to uncover the sources of the mania for recre...

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Autor principal: Hardy, Stephen, 1948- (Autor)
Altres autors: Herlihy, Mark (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: [Boston, MA] : Northeastern University Press, [2019]
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumari:How Boston Played is a double delight. It chronicles the birth of Boston sports from early Redstockings games and college rowing regattas, to the exploits of the "Boston Strong Boy," John L. Sullivan. Looking beyond just sporting events, though, it seeks to uncover the sources of the mania for recreation that swept the Hub following the Civil War. As How Boston Played illustrates, the rise of sport is firmly entwined in both the city's development and, more importantly, in a people's search for community. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 1982. With a new foreword by Mark Herlihy.
Descripció de l’ítem:Reprint of 1982 edition, with new foreword.
Descripció física:1 online resource (290 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781555538750
Accés:Open Access