Initial Reaction: When Baseball Went White
After reading the first part of When Baseball Went White, I liked Swanson’s detail in setting up the scene and where he planned to take the rest of the book. The story begins by discussing
After reading the first part of When Baseball Went White, I liked Swanson’s detail in setting up the scene and where he planned to take the rest of the book. The story begins by discussing
After reading the introduction and first two chapters of The Rise of Gridiron University, what stood out to me was how much detail the author gives about college sports before football so that we
From reading the first two chapters, The Rise of Grid Iron University gives a lot of information about the early days of not just college football but also the American culture of the time.
When reading Brian M. Ingrassia’s book The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football, I was struck at the amount of detail presented on the early origins of football. I
From the first two chapters of J. Samuel Walker’s ACC Basketball, Walker gives us an in-depth view of how the ACC Conference came to be from the Southern Conference. Before the 1950’s the politics,
The period of reconstruction has been among the most difficult concepts in history to understand. It could be because most history classes botch its explanation, reducing the period to the three amendments passed or
“ACC Basketball”, written by J. Samuel Walker, provides an in depth analysis to the origins of the ACC conference in college basketball. I enjoyed reading the introduction and first two chapters of this book,
The introduction of the book presents us with a recurring theme that we have seen throughout the class; sports are integral in forming culture and a sense of identity, and serve as a unifying
The first couple of chapters of ACC Basketball show the prolific attention to detail it shows to shining a light on the entirety of the conference’s history. This includes doing a great job of
The first few chapters of “Futbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina” are very interesting, primarily focusing on the author’s claims, immigration, and main Jewish communities in Argentina. The introduction is where we first