Patrick R. Redmond

The Irish-American Athletic Club of New York

The Rise and Fall of the Winged Fists, 1898-1917

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Produktbeschreibung

At the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs generally recruited the top sporting graduates from private colleges--except one. New York's Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. Membership was not exclusively Irish--Jews, African Americans, Scandinavians, Italians, and even a handful of Englishmen joined the club, which dominated local and national athletics for more than a decade. The I-AAC laid claim to the title of best athletic club in the world following the 1908 Olympic Games, bent the rules on amateurism and challenged the ban on Sunday entertainments before succumbing to aftereffects of World War I and Prohibition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781476672397
• ISBN-10: 1476672393
• Artikelnr.: 48896082

Autorenporträt

Patrick R. Redmond has written for the BBC and London newspapers Irish World and Irish Post. He lives just outside of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface
1.
The "staid" and the "poor man's" Athletic Clubs
2.
"For the encouragement of manly sports and exercises ... of the Irish-American Athlete": The First and Second I-AAC
3.
"The 'Mecca' of attraction for every proud son and fair daughter of Erin": The Building of Celtic Park
4.
"Our name is the Irish-American Athletic Club": The I-AAC and Other Ethnicities
5.
"An overwhelming success numerically and financially": Establishing the GNYIAA Between 1898 and 1904
6.
"A roistering carefree set of hellions": The Irish Immigrant Athlete and the I-AAC
7.
"The banner organization of the United States": St. Louis and Onwards, 1904-1906
8.
"The social element in Clubs is like 'dry rot'": Snobbery and the American Athletic Club
9.
"The first, if not the foremost, athletic club in the world": The I-AAC Between 1906 and 1908 10.
"If you see an Irish head, hit it": The I-AAC and Accusations of Professionalism 11.
"You carry the Stars and Stripes proudly!" The I-AAC Athletes at the 1908 Olympics 12.
"Blood stirred by its games and sports": The I-AAC and Promoting Irish Sport and Identity in America 13.
"Condemned for wholesale proselyting": The I-AAC Growth Between 1908 and 1912 14.
"Such shameful spectacles would never be permitted pious New York": The I-AAC: Policemen, Politicians and Sabbatarians 15.
"In spite of depressing conditions": The Beginning the End of the I-AAC (1912-1916) 16.
"Service first, athletics afterward": The I-AAC Finally Closes 17.
"Perhaps we shall again see the day" Glossary of Athletic Events Appendix: Irish-American Athletic Club Team Honors Chapter Notes Bibliography Index