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Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 | 
 enlarge | Author: Wray Vamplew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $130.00
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Sales Rank: 6796538
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0521355974
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.0941
EAN: 9780521355971
ASIN: 0521355974
Publication Date: January 27, 1989
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Product Description
Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and Play the Game presents the first systematic economic analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I. It explores the tensions behind an increasingly commercialised activity that was nonetheless suffused with 'gentlemanly' values at many levels, and highlights the retreat of the latter as working-class consumption and participation became predominant, symbolised most dramatically by the celebrated victory of proletarian Blackburn Olympic over the Old Etonians in the FA Cup final of 1883. Wray Vamplew examines the linkages between sport, gambling, crime and spectator violence, and concludes that many supposedly 'recent' developments (notably football hooliganism) in fact have their origins in this, the 'Golden Age' of sport in Britain.
Book Description
Based on a vast range of club and association records, Pay Up and Play the Game presents the first systematic economic analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I.
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