Sports media history : culture, technology, identity / edited by John Carvalho.
"This research collection details the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history. Chapters examine both historical events/moments and broader trends in sports, with an emphasis on the media's role"--
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge research in sports history.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Early influences, early developments. Curiosity shop, toy department, and beyond : the development of visual baseball journalism in Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper
- The photo-finish as sports media
- Hawking kings of the diamond : how specialty sports magazines sold the national pastime, its stars, and its audience fables of manliness
- Joe Louis : the first black white hope
- Dizzying up the broadcast booth : the player-broadcaster in the early years of televised baseball
- Part II. Sports, media, and evolving identity issues. "Do tennis girls make good wives?" : exploring media representations of women's sport in interwar Britain
- From base paths to bylines : Jackie Robinson's prodigious career in journalism
- Major League Baseball and the development of Spanish-language radio broadcasts
- Defying race ideology in the South : print media's role in the erosion of the unwritten rules in college basketball
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the Super Bowl as a narrative for civil rights
- Martina Navratilova : out in the (relative) open
- Part III. The global reach of sports and media's influence. Sports journalism in wartime : a case of sports journalism in the Third Reich
- Trapped in America : how the Masanori Murakami debacle redefined U.S.-Japan baseball relations
- Argentina in the Women's World Cup Mexico 1971 : a collaborative approach to building a theoretical landmark
- For profit or for country? : the Daily Mail and the Zola Budd affair
- Part IV. A first look at emerging sports media history topics
- Labor's denial : a case study of how labor used the media and public relations to block the first NBA-ABA merger attempt
- Clyde Lear and the Learfield Sports empire
- Remembering NCAA v. Board of Regents : the Supreme Court foundation of a mediated college football cartel
- The ultimate value-added proposition : how fantasy sport evolved to accommodate the changing social needs of sports fans
- Covering terror : the New York Times's post-9/11 sports reporting.