Review: A people's history of sports in the United StatesRedaktioneller Bericht - Kirkus ReviewsSportswriter Zirin (Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports, 2007, etc.) looks through the eyes of the left at the political forces shaping the history of American sports. Americans who care little about sports probably know something about track stars Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe and Wilma Rudolph; baseball players Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente; football greats Paul Robeson, Jim Brown and Pat Tillman; basketballers Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson; tennis giants Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson, Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova; boxing champions Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and soccer standout Mia Hamm. We know these biographies precisely because of the political stands each has taken on behalf of racial, sexual, economic or religious fair play. Even a casual sports fan knows something about the story of baseball's Negro Leagues, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the Black Power demonstrations at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, or the all-black, 1966 Texas Western NCAA basketball champions, largely because of their still-reverberating social implications. Zirin's purpose, then, is somewhat of a mystery. Can there be anyone besides the ghost of Grantland Rice and possibly the Chinese Olympic Committee who believe sports can be severed from politics? Chronologically, with serial entries of seemingly arbitrary length, Zirin covers all this, as well as many other, genuinely obscure tales that serve his unrelenting, Howard Zinnian take on sports history. The cast of villains includes capitalism, patriotism, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley and executive Al Campanis, Olympic czar Avery Brundage, Don Imus, longtime Redskins owner George Preston Marshall and, of course, George W. Bush. Zirin's selection of rebel athletes is worthy, but he does them no honor by comparing them to his political heroes—the Rosenbergs, the Jena Six—for whom he has unreserved admiration. A smug, wearisome catalogue. NutzerrezensionenReview: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Ryan Mishap - GoodreadsRealizing he's following the path laid down by Howard Zinn, I would still change the title to "A Political History of Spectator Sports" to more accurately reflect the focus. While I had hoped for a ... Vollständige Rezension lesen Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Danimal - GoodreadsNot always the best writing in the world, but some great research into the alternative world of sports, where people fought prejudice and sometimes even overcame it. Vollständige Rezension lesen Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Malcolm - GoodreadsThis book deserves to be widely read – my fairly restrained rating is explained below; bear with me please. The (political) left has, for too long written sport off as a distraction from the real work ... Vollständige Rezension lesen Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Goodreadsif you are a leftist and a sports fan then this is a book for you. of course, you probably have already come across dave zirin... like dave, i do not think sports is merely a haven of reaction and ... Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Tom - GoodreadsBeen reading some of Z's columns for The Nation. He's quite good. Recent piece on merging U-Miami scandal takes a different stance than the typical shouting for "death penalty" for Hurricanes, instead ... Vollständige Rezension lesen Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - GoodreadsA lot of info. A lot of detailed info for my not very detail oriented brain. Bookclub motivation proves valuable. There was some general sports ideas and then some focus on indivual events and people ... Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Ryan - GoodreadsDave Z, does it again....talking about the hidden stories in the sportsworld that didn't make it on the evening news. Vollständige Rezension lesen Review: People's History of Sports in the United States: From Bull-Baiting to Barry Bonds: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, the People, and PlayNutzerbericht - Eric - GoodreadsReally good! Vollständige Rezension lesen Review: A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and PlayNutzerbericht - GoodreadsThe rough start to this book was worth it in the end. I am admittedly not a history buff. But I loved reading the history in this book through the lens of sports. I enjoyed getting snippets on a cast ... | Bewertungen von Nutzern| 5 Sterne | | | 4 Sterne | | | 3 Sterne | | | 2 Sterne | | | 1 Stern | |
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