Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling

by Jon Langmead

Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826222994
• ISBN13: 9780826222992
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"