The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field

by Joseph M. Turrini

Book Overview

This unique sports and labor history charts the revolutionary transformation of track and field over the past thirty years. In this time, the sport has changed from an amateur effort whose governing bodies unfairly controlled its athletes' lives to a professional arena in which athletes have the power to make decisions in their own best interests. While historians have chronicled labor history in team sports such as baseball and football or have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035151
• ISBN13: 9780252035159
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"