The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City

Edited by Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems

A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

Introduction: The History of Sports in Chicago   Steven A. Riess   1 1. Horse Racing in Chicago, 1883-1894: The Interplay of Class, Politics, and Organized Crime   Steven A. Riess   59 2. When Chicago Was Wheel Crazy   George D. Bushnell   81 3. The Car Race of the Century   Cord Scott 91 4. The Rise of the Spectator, the Coach, and the Player, 1895-1905   Robin Dale Lester   105 5. Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime: The Rise of Semiprofessional Baseball in Black Chicago, 1890-1915   Michael E. Lomax   147 6. News, Narratives, and the Black Sox Scandal: History's First Draft   Daniel A. Nathan   173 7. Red Grange and the Chicago Bears   John M. Carroll   199 8. The Dempsey-Tunney Fight   Bruce J. Evensen   233 9. Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Chicago Blackhawks   John Chi-Kit Wong   253 10. Blocked Shot: The Development of Basketball in the African-American Community of Chicago   Gerald R. Gems   281 11. No Freaks, No Amazons, No Boyish Bobs   Susan K. Cahn   299 12. 1969 and the Chicago Cubs   David Claerbaut   317 13. Bittersweet Championships: Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls, and International Sports Marketing   Walter L. LeFeber   341 Contributors   353 Index   357Illustrations follow page 252