In Winning Is the Only Thing, Randy Roberts and James Olson take a hard look at the dark side of American sports. The scandals. The role of organized crime. How politicians and businessmen exploit the Olympics. Who gets rich and who goes broke. Why the fitness craze has nothing to do with fitness. And how TV sports czars like Roone Arledge—inventor of the "instant replay"—actually dictate how games are played.
Randy Roberts is the author of A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and many more.
James S. Olson is the Texas State University System Regents Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He has written and edited dozens of books, including Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1. The World That Hiroshima Created: The Olympic Games and the Cold WarChapter 2. The Integration of American SportsChapter 3. Work and Play: The Business of Professional SportsChapter 4. Scandal TimeChapter 5. Television, Sports, and Mass CultureChapter 6. The Roone RevolutionChapter 7. The New Rules of the GameChapter 8. The Black Rebellion in American SportsChapter 9. In the Shadow of MunichChapter 10. Sports and Self in Modern AmericaBibliographic EssayIndex
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Important reading for anybody who cares about sports.—Tug McGraw
