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A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70
Melvin L. Adelman
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Traces the development of modern sports in nineteenth-century New York, including baseball, cricket, horse and harness racing, yachting, billiards, and boxing, and describes the emergence of national standards and commercial involvement
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408 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1985
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