A History of American Sports in 100 Objects by Cait Murphy HARDBACK

A History of American Sports in 100 Objects\nby Cait Murphy\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Cait Murphy\nTitle: A History of American Sports in 100 Objects\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Basic Books\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9780465097746\nISBN-10: 046509774X\nRRP: \u00A330.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhat artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, I''m sorry I bet on baseball? Could it be Lance Armstrong''s red-white-and-blue bike, now tarnished by doping and hubris? Or perhaps its ancestor, the nineteenth-century safety bicycle that opened an avenue of previously unknown freedom to women? The jerseys of rivals Larry.