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Hardback. New. Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municipal greatness to inescapable social change. Through it all he plants the world of sport at the very center of New York's story. Fully illustrated, The Greater New York Sports Chronology covers the spectacle of blood sports like bullbaiting to the birth of baseball, the now-forgotten six-day pedestrian contests, and today's New York City Marathon. Alongside great moments like the Mets' "amazin'" World Series win in 1969, Joe Louis's historic bouts with Max Schmeling, Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line, and Secretariat's remarkable Triple Crown win at Belmont, we encounter the point-shaving scandals of college basketball and the corrupting influence of…
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The Greater New York Sports Chronology Hardcover - 2009
by Jeffrey Kroessler
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- Title The Greater New York Sports Chronology
- Author Jeffrey Kroessler
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 2009-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231146487 / 0231146485
- Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 8 x 0.8 in (25.40 x 20.32 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress subjects Sports - New York (State) - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009019465
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.097
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- Choice, 09/01/2010, Page 0
- LJ Best Reference Sources, 11/15/2009, Page 38
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