Pedestrianism : when watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport / / Matthew Algeo
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| Autore: |
Algeo Matthew
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| Titolo: |
Pedestrianism : when watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport / / Matthew Algeo
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, Illinois : , : Chicago Review Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.90091 |
| Soggetto topico: | Walking - United States - History - 19th century |
| Spectators - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Classificazione: | HIS036040SPO050000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front 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 |
| 13 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Strange 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pedestrianism |
| ISBN: | 1-61374-398-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820561703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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