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050 00 $aGV706.5$b.M363 2001
082 00 $a796.334/0973$221
100 1 $aMarkovits, Andrei S.
245 10 $aOffside :$bsoccer and American exceptionalism
/$cAndrei S. Markovits and Steven L. Hellerman.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University
Press,$cc2001.
300 $axiv, 367 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.
[341]-350) and index.
505 0 $a1. The Argument: Sports As Culture in Industrial
Societies - American Conformities and Exceptions -- 2. The
Formation of the American Sport Space: "Crowding Out" and
Other Factors in the Relegation and Marginalization of
Soccer -- 3. Soccer's Trials and Tribulations: Beginnings,
Chaos, "Almosts," Obscurity, and Colleges -- 4. The
Formation and Rearrangement of the American Sport Space in
the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 5. From the
North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer -- 6.
The World Cup in the United States -- 7. The Coverage of
World Cup '98 by the American Media and the Tournament's
Reception by the American Public -- App. A. A Statistical
Abstract on Recreational, Scholastic, and Collegiate Soccer
in the United States -- App. B. A Sample of Opinion from
American Sports Columnists and Journalists regarding the
1994 World Cup.
650 0 $aSports$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSoccer$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
700 1 $aHellerman, Steven L.,$d1958-
