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Author: Steven A. Riess
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 025207615X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Author: Brian Sandalow
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 163494030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chicago sports teams have put their fans through hell at times, but that’s only part of the story. Chicago: America’s Best Sports Town recounts the athletes, coaches, triumphs, and heartbreaks that have kept fans coming back for more.
Author: Jean O'Reilly
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1555537871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports
Author: Jeff Davis
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2004-11-21
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0071460543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first truly comprehensive biography on George Halas, the father of professional football The founder of the National Football League and father of the Chicago Bears, George Halas single-handedly changed the way Americans spend their Sundays. Papa Bear tells the incredible story of how one man grabbed an outlaw game by the throat, shook it up, and made it into the richest and most popular spectator sport on the planet. Nearly 20 years after his death, Halas remains one of the towering figures of professional sports--rivaling the legendary Vince Lombardi--yet there has never been an authoritative biography published about this great American success story. At last, Papa Bear fills that gap. Written with unprecedented access to Halas's family, his closest friends, and associates, this thoroughly researched account includes exclusive interviews and a treasure trove of never-published archival materials on the Hall of Famer and his enduring legacy.
Author: Ted Cox
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013-03-18
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0810128683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Loyal sports fans follow their teams through peaks and valleys, but in no other city have fans experienced the highs and lows of Chicagoans in the past generation. This collection of Ted Cox’s greatest hits writing "The Sports Section" for the Chicago Reader from 1983 to 2008 constitutes an intimate history of Chicago teams during these years. From the triumphs—the six titles won by the Bulls, the Super Bowl champion 1985 Bears, and the White Sox winning the World Series in 2005—to the regularly occurring collapses of the Cubs, Cox puts his audience on the scene. He evokes the fan’s experience with a level of vivid detail now nearly extinct from sports journalism. Cox writes like an ordinary observer who just happens to have excellent seats and easy access to the players and coaches. 1,001 Days in the Bleachers stands not only as a chronicle of Chicago’s teams but also as a portrait of the evolution of professional sports and their place in the life of the city.
Author: Gerald R. Gems
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1498598986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study uses sociological and historical methodologies to analyze the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author traces the transformation of Chicago from a frontier town to a commercial behemoth, examining its role as an immigration, transportation, and entertainment hub. The author argues that, as a pioneering leader in American sport history, Chicago allowed teams and athletes to forge a unique national and global identity. This thorough and well-researched study makes a major contribution to debates on the social and psychological functions of sport culture.
Author: Mike North
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1617499005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Calm, reasoned, and well-modulated tones are not the order of business in discussing Chicago sports, and when it comes to talking Chicago sports, Mike North is in a class by himself. He led the sports-talk-radio industry out of its formative stages and became the city's most recognized voice. With his in-your-face style, North has all the answers and doesn't shortchange the reader when it comes to opinions. Why do the Bears carry the city? What's the basic difference between Sox and Cubs fans? Will the Bulls ever return to glory? Can the Blackhawks recapture their stature as one of the top teams in the NHL?
Author: Jack M. Silverstein
Publisher: Keylog Media
Published: 2024-02-02
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1662939426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why We Root: Mad Obsessions of a Chicago Sports Fan is a collection of Jack M Silverstein's sportswriting, including pieces from 1999 to 2023 that reveal the sports-fan mindset and show readers why we root for our teams. This collection of eighty-one articles is organized based on a fan's emotional journey—from learning the game, to knowing the game, to emotional heartbreak, and eventually to celebrating championships. Included in the book are Silverstein's real-time articles on many of the best known Chicago sports events of the early 21st century, including: the White Sox, Blackhawks, and Cubs breaking winning their first championships after massive droughts; the Bears reaching, and losing, the Super Bowl; the rise and fall of saviors-to-be Derrick Rose and Jay Cutler; the Chicago Sky winning the 2021 WNBA championship; the Blackhawks' famed "17 seconds" championship; the Bears' agonizing "double doink"; and the Cubs' horrific Bartman game, retold from multiple perspectives in multiple years, including ten years later by pitcher Mark Prior and catcher Paul Bako. Also included are Silverstein's look back at the Bulls-Pistons rivalry of the 1990s, the 1995 Northwestern Wildcats Rose Bowl team, and Michael Jordan's flu game.
Author: Herb Graffis
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the pages Esquire magazine this sports reader presents a collection of yarns and articles to create an all-star sports literary line-up.
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-08-15
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1607106922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New from the Bathroom Reader: a grand slam, hole-in-one, hat trick collection of sports lore and trivia. Hey, sports fans: Sports Spectacular is bigger and better than ever! The not-so-dumb jocks at the BRI have packed in all the best sports and games articles from the wildly successful Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series--and then bulked the whole thing up with more than 50 fan-tastic new pages. So place the ball on the tee, square up to the basket, and make sure your laces are laced tight, because it’s time to throw the dice through the goalposts for a home run! You’ll feel the thrill of victory and laugh at the agony of defeat as you read about… * The origins of all the major sports (and a bunch of minor ones) * Classic games, from poker and pinball to Monopoly and Donkey Kong * How to play bathroom blackjack * The world’s worst matador * The Goodyear Blimp * Mascots gone wild * Olympic scandals * NASCAR’s illegal origins * Dodging the cow pies when you play pasture golf * Finnish wife-carrying, gerbil racing, flagpole sitting, and other bizarre sports And much, much more!
