One day in front of the television would convince any alien that the entirety of American culture is built around sports. Politics and business are abustle with
Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run,"
Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agre
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a
This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into