Daniel M. DuBois is Assistant Professor of history at Saint Leo University, USA. His work has appeared in the Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, the Journal of Sport History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport. He is the co-editor (with Thomas Zeiler) of A Companion to World War II.

• DedicationList of IllustrationsPart I: The Huddled MassesImmigration And The Emergence Of Modern Sport in AmericaBasketball and Urban SpaceJack Johnson and the Global Business of BoxingAmerican Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport MovementAmerica and the Modern Olympic MovementPierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic GamesThe 1900 Olympic Games in ParisThe 1904 Games and the St. Louis World’s FairOlympic Fatigue, European Rivalry and the 1908 London GamesMelting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm GamesBaseball and American EmpireForeigners to FansCannons in the OutfieldBaseball’s World ToursConjuring the National PastimeNotesAthlete Spotlight #1: Jim ThorpePart II: In Service of the StateThe Growing Business of BaseballBabe Ruth and the New Sport MediaThe Negro Leagues and Baseball’s Continued Growth AbroadProfessionalization in Other Corners of US SportProfessional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar AmericaRe-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist Twenties and ThirtiesThe Olympics and WarOlympic Growth in the Twenties and ThirtiesHitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin OlympicsUS Sport in World War IINotesAthlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson ZahariasPart III: The Dawn of the Activist AthletePost-War Professional Sport in AmericaThe NFL Sets the EdgeThe Making of the NBAJackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball’s Integration after World War IISport Diplomacy and the Cold WarThe Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil RightsWilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold WarBill Russell and the Transnational Power of SportMuhammad Ali v The United StatesConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

Guides the reader to reflect on salient moments of international influence on American sport and its culture. For those unfamiliar with the sport history discipline, especially students and instructors broaching the field outside of established sport studies programs, DuBois’s reflective meditation is a worthwhile edition for any first-year classroom.