Game faces : five early American champions and the sports they changed / Thomas H. Pauly.

Author: Pauly, Thomas H.

Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Descriptionxix, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:Tom Stevens: bicycling and the obstacle of amateurism -- Fanny Bullock Workman: mountaineering as science and news -- Bill Reid: the play that changed football -- May Sutton: California's intrusion on women's tennis -- Barney Oldfield: people's champion and threat to early automobile racing -- Epilogue.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-234) and index.

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