| Author/Contributor(s): | Jay, Kathryn |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Date: | 04/18/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities.