LEADER 02965nam 2200517 450 001 9910463688203321 005 20200127212735.0 010 $a1-61374-398-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000530929 035 $a(EBL)1643144 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132717 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11627954 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132717 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11155628 035 $a(PQKB)10913832 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643144 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000530929 100 $a20140314h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPedestrianism $ewhen watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport /$fMatthew Algeo 210 1$aChicago, Illinois :$cChicago Review Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61374-397-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Wiskey in His Boots or He's the Man; 2 Walking Fever or Perhaps a Foreigner Could Do It; 3 The Expo or Not an Absorbingly Entrancing Sport; 4 Coca or Nature Should Not be Outraged; 5 Rematch or Not Silly Little Female Cigarettes Either; 6 The Astley Belt or More Talked About Than Constantinople; 7 Pedestriennes or Pioneers; 8 Terrible Blows or A Crackling Was Heard; 9 Comeback or A Game Old Ped; 10 Black Dan or A Dark Horse; 11 Anti-Pedestrianism or Bodily Exercise Profiteth Little; 12 The National Pastime or King of Harts 327 $a13 Hippodroming or The Suspicion Was Very General 14 Bicycles and Baseball or Too Free Use of Stimulants; Epilogue: The Last Pedestrians or Now About Everybody Rides; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Sources; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Back Cover 330 $aStrange as it sounds, during the 1870's and 1880's, America's most popular spectator sport wasn't baseball, football, or horseracing-it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (never on Sunday), risking their health and sanity to see who could walk the farthest-more than 500 miles. These walking matches were as talked about as the weather, the details reported in newspapers and telegraphed to fans from coast to coast. This long-forgotten sport, known as pedestrianism, spawned America's first celebrity athlete 606 $aWalking$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSpectators$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWalking$xHistory 615 0$aSpectators$xHistory 676 $a820.90091 700 $aAlgeo$b Matthew$0867940 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463688203321 996 $aPedestrianism$91937547 997 $aUNINA