1960s: Sports and Games
The 1960s saw professional sports finally attain dominance in the hearts of American sports fans. The overlapping seasons of professional baseball, football, hockey, and basket...
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1970s: Sports and Games
More than anything else, money changed professional sports during the 1970s. In football and baseball, moneymaking television contracts led to changes in the rules and a length...
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1990s: Sports and Games
The 1990s boasted some of the greatest athletes and athletic achievements of the century, and saw a real flowering in women's sports. Leading the way was the man who man...
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Out of Bounds.
Judging solely by media coverage, most of what was newsworthy in sports during the 1990s had little to do with the field of play. Athletics—professional, amateur, and casual—had become...
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A Matter of Scale.
For most of the twentieth century mass-entertainment spectator sports have been big business. American sporting contests have been commercialized to varying degrees since their inc...
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Big Business.
Sports in the 1970s was very big business. Television had reshaped the sports industry in the decade before, and now the businessmen went to work to exploit their market. Football, base...
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Winning.
Vince Lombardi's motto "Winning is not everything; it is the only thing" defines fans' and players' attitudes toward sports during the 1960s. It was the decade when American cynici...
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More than a Game.
"He who would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball," observed culturist Jacques Barzun. To look at baseball and other sports to see how they wove t...
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Automobile Racing: Stock cars
Baseball
Mr. Rickey
"Cool Papa Bell"
Baseball, Women's Style
Basketball, College
Boxing
An Eye for An Eye
Football, College
Football, Professional
Locker-Room ...
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The Golden Age Ends.
The 1920s were called the golden age of sports. Every sport seemed to be dominated by a single personality. Though several of these athletes were still active in the 1930s, the g...
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An Overlooked Decade.
The second decade of the twentieth century is one of the most overlooked periods in the history of American sport. Overshadowed by the 1920s, the "Golden Age" of Ameri...
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Roosevelt as Symbol.
More than any athlete of the 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt epitomized the sporting character of the decade. In 1900, the year before he became the twenty-sixth president of the Unite...
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1960s: Sports and Games
America 1990-1999: Sports
