(Ebook PDF) Sports in America 1950 1959 2nd Edition by Jim Gigliotti ISBN 9781604134520 1604134526 full chapters
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ISBN 10:1604134526
ISBN 13:9781604134520
Author: Jim Gigliotti
The booming decade following World War II saw many advances in sports and the continued integration of people of other races into major sports leagues. A lanky Oxford University medical student broke the four-minute-mile record, the first African American won a U.S. Open singles title, and the color barrier broke in the National Basketball Association. 19501959, Second Edition explores this decade of sports, presenting full-color and black-and-white photographs and further resources for interested readers.
Highlights include:
African-American players Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, Chuck Cooper, and Earl “Big Cat” Lloyd break the color barrier in the National Basketball Association in 1950
Bobby Thomson hits “the shot heard round the world” to win the 1951 National League pennant for the New York Giants
In 1954 Roger Bannister, a medical student at Oxford University, becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes
Boxer Rocky Marciano defeats challenger Archie Moore in 1955 to end his career as the undefeated heavyweight champion
Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win the U.S. Open singles title in 1957
Alan Ameche and Johnny Unitas lead the Baltimore Colts to the 1958 NFL championship in “the Greatest Game Ever Played.”
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