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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796482603321

Titolo

Sport and the law : historical and cultural intersections / / edited by Samuel O. Regalado, Sarah K. Fields

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, Arkansas : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-61075-549-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Sport, culture & society

Disciplina

344.73099

344/.73099

Soggetti

Sports - Law and legislation - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Section I: The Burger Supreme Court and Sport; Chapter Two: Clay, aka Ali v. U.S. (1971); Chapter Three: Odd Bedfellows; Chapter Four: The Flood Case, 1972; Chapter Five: How the Burger Court Came to Be; Section II: Antitrust Law and Sport; Chapter Six: Danny Gardella and Baseball's Reserve Clause; Chapter Seven: Powerlifting's Watershed; Section III: The Impact of Sport on Law and Law on Sport; Chapter Eight: Thirty-Five Years after Richards v. USTA; Chapter Nine: "Clean Up the Abuses"

Chapter Ten: "A Matter of Basic Fairness"Chapter Eleven: Epilogue; Thoughts Regarding Scholarly Methods; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Samuel O. Regalado is professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus and the author or editor of four books, including <i>Baseball in Nikkei America: From the Meiji to the Majors</i>.<br><br>Sarah K. Fields is associate professor of communication at University of Colorado Denver and the author of <i>Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America</i>.</div>