Sportsmen and GamesmenUniversity of Missouri Press, 2002 - 350 pages The gradual transformation of the British aristocratic sporting tradition into a popular one in America is a principal theme of Sportsmen and Gamesmen. John Dizikes locates the distinction between sportsmen and gamesmen in different attitudes toward rules. Beginning with Andrew Jackson, the personification of American democracy, for whom the traditional code of conduct was a vital part of the sporting spirit, he finds a diversity of views in the next generation of American sportsmen, some accepting, other modifying or rejecting, the old sporting code, which came, in the changing conditions and values of nineteenth-century American life, to seem irrelevant, almost un-American. These sporting portraits vividly depict the process of creating a distinctive American sporting culture. |
Contents
The Sportsman and the Hermitage | 3 |
The General and the Colonel 275 | 23 |
William T Porter and the Spirit of the Times | 47 |
Henry William Herbert and Frank Forester | 67 |
John Cox Stevens and America | 91 |
Richard Ten Broeck and the American Invasion | 123 |
Paul Morphy Against the World | 159 |
John C Heenan and Adah Menken | 193 |
PART III | 235 |
Games and Hoaxing | 267 |
From Draw Poker to the Twentieth | 291 |
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