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Jan Kerkmann, David Manolo Sailer - Schonungslos

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Jan Kerkmann (ed.), David Manolo Sailer (ed.)

Schonungslos

Series: Bibliotheca Academica - Reihe Philosophie

Volume 12 2024

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Jörg-Uwe Nieland, Roman Horak Sport-Held*innen unter Druck. Kommerzialisierung und Medialisierung zwischen Antrieb und Hypothek S. 49-70

„… den Basketballer LeBron James40 im Zusammenhang mit der Black Lives Matter-Bewegung – sichtbar. Mit …” „… Starsystem Hans-Otto Hügel, ‚Weißt Du wieviel Sterne stehen?‘ Zu Begriff, Funktion und Geschichte des Stars …” „… Der Star-Status von Sportler*innen verdankt sich in erheblichem Maße einer in erster Linie …”

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Thomas Aiello

Hoops

2022

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Epilogue S. 235-242

„… polic-ing of Black voices was nothing new, however, neither was the activism that prompted it. Basketball’s …” „… other sport has carried the racial coding that basketball carried since the first introduction of Black …” „… sports stars.On the morning of January 26, 2020, Bryant left an airport in Orange County with his …”

9: Race and Civil Rights S. 127-142

„… outside the boundary lines created by their wealth and prestige. It was for Black professional basketball …” „… War II. When Black professional basketball teams, the Harlem Magicians and the New York Olympians …” „… . In 1961, seven Black men were arrested in Savannah after playing basketball on a municipal court …”

8: Integration S. 111-126

„… 8IntegrationDespite the Basketball Association of America’s (BAA) agreement that Black players …” „… collegiate basketball’s desegregation. Unlike baseball, which had dis-tinct leagues for White and Black …” „… Black athletes. Fenwick Watkins, for example, joined the University of Vermont basketball team as early …”

Bibliographic Essay S. 243-270

„… important star in the postwar period. Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of …” „… chapters was decidedly White, but Black basketball thrived, as well, developing teams and orga-nizations …” „… similar to baseball’s Negro leagues. The chief repository of information on early Black basketball comes …”

3: The Negro Leagues S. 33-48

„… precarious position for traveling Black basketball teams that often found themselves in towns that refused …” „… American institutions.34 chapter 3The bulk of the Black population in the decade following basketball’s …” „… sell. “Among blacks, basketball was at first considered a ‘sissy’ game, as was tennis in the rugged …”

10: The American Basketball Association and the Merger S. 143-158

„… league unapologetically identified itself racially. While the NBA had Black stars like Chamberlain and …” „… 10The American Basketball Association and the MergerLeaders of the NBA may have spent much of …” „… their time wringing their hands over the growing presence of Black players in the association, but that …”

11: Magic and Larry S. 159-172

„… , professional basketball was at a crossroads. The parity of the 1970s had given way to a variety of new …” „… champions, but it had also witnessed the nadir of the pro game’s popularity. Basketball’s television ratings …” „… of the previous Ameri-can Basketball Association (ABA) never were, the economic doldrums that …”

15: The NBA in the Twenty-First Century S. 221-234

„… seven years, Bryant lived in Italy, developing a global outlook while learning basketball from his …” „… Naismith High School Player of the Year, and Gato-rade Men’s National Basketball Player of the Year. Though …” „… Antonio, Texas, overwhelming his basketball com-petition, setting a state record for rebounds, and leading …”

7: The Birth of the National Basketball Association S. 95-110

„… 7The Birth of the National Basketball AssociationMax Kase was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1898 …” „… , when basketball was still in its infancy. He grew up loving the game, along with every other sport, and …” „… based in New York begin with promise before finally disbanding. But the success of college basketball at …”

5: The Growth of the Women’s Game S. 65-80

„… times.”The teams produced a variety of stars. Ora Washington was one of the most successful basketball …” „… play against stars like Suzanne Lengelen or Helen Wills. Similarly, championship basketball sponsored …” „… students in one of the first women’s basketball games. Berenson was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who …”

4: Early Collegiate Basketball S. 49-64

„… advised one of his star players, Forrest “Phog” Allen, when he was considering becoming a basketball coach …” „… basketball teams, Black or White, to make it to New York, which was soon to become the mecca of the sport.New …” „… contests calling the Violets’ star player, Howard Cann, “the greatest basketball player in the world …”

12: The Jordan Rules S. 173-186

„… college basketball was growing, aided by stars like Jordan. In his next two seasons, Jordan would be a …” „… other star basketball players in the decades to come.At the same time, however, the reliance on public …” „… , wherein Black families in northern urban hubs pushed back into the burgeon-ing Sun Belt cities of the …”

Index S. 271-292

„… basketball, xi, 198; stars in, 25; television and, 136, 143–44. See also All-America Football Conference …” „… ; regulates amateur basketball, 12, 75–76, 77, 78, 79; regulates other sports, 55, 73–74, 207American …” „… Basketball Association, 145–54, 157, 159, 166, 195American Basketball League (1925), 23–24American Basketball …”

2: Professionalizing the Amateur Game S. 17-32

„… basketball marketed such stars as Benny Borgmann and Joe Brennan, along with several others.This advertising …” „… basketball.”professionalizing the amateur game 27That kind of star power made the Celtics a threat to any league that didn’t …” „… professional basketball game. Early pro Ed Wachter claimed that a game at the Fox Opera House in Herkimer, New …”

13: College Basketball at the Millennium S. 187-204

„… 13College Basketball at the MillenniumJordan’s game- winning shot in the 1982 NCAA Cham-pionship …” „… tournament and the television product it generated.And one of collegiate basketball’s advantages over its …” „… football counter-part was its number of individual fan bases. Basketball required fewer scholarships and …”

Preface

„… Concise History, by Walter D. KamphoefnerHoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America, by Thomas …” „… AielloHOOPSA Cultural History of Basketball in AmericaThomas AielloROWMAN & LITTLEFIELDLanham • Boulder • New …” „… - author.Title: Hoops : a cultural history of basketball in America / Thomas Aiello.Description: Lanham, Maryland …”

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Sherman L. Jenkins

Ted Strong Jr.

2016

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CHAPTER 5. PRIME TIME ABOUNDS WITH HICCUPS S. 31-48

„… basket-ball game between the World’s Professional Champions Harlem Globe Trotters and College All Stars at the …” „… All-Stars in the finals.Regardless, it is understandable that many Chicagoans, especially in the Black Belt …” „… variety: Ted Strong and Inman Jackson.Two StarsJackson gave the fans a marvelous performance of ball …”

CHAPTER 10. 1947 S. 85-104

„… Stars, Hawaii Stars, and the House of David professional basketball teams, the Globetrotters boarded a …” „… basketball in the air under the headline “Stars for Minot.” The caption read: “Ted Strong, former star of the …” „… seventy-eight-minute, black-and-white movie that starred Hollywood’s first African American movie star, Dorothy …”

CHAPTER 3. TED JR. COMES INTO HIS OWN S. 15-20

„… basketball and baseball teams that were tops in Chicago high school sports.When he wasn’t in school Ted Jr …” „… . could be found on a sandlot or makeshift basketball court competing against some of the best talent the …” „… Black Belt produced at that time. This focus on sports improved his skills tremendously, but schoolwork …”

CHAPTER 6. THE FIFTEENTH SEASON S. 49-56

„… top stars of the Harlem Globe Trotter professional basketball team that comes here tonight to meet …” „… hitting star of their last appearance and the veteran Frank Duncan will take care of the catching …” „… elite basketball teams in the country. They felt that the fifteenth season would be no different …”

NOTES S. 147-162

„… basketball, were the black team of the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1923 by a black immigrant from Saint Kitts …” „… Edition, 31 May 1941, 22.29. Larry Lester, Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game …” „… : HarperCollins, 2005), 191.9. Larry Lester, Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game …”

CHAPTER 4. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT S. 21-30

„… finished third in the World Basketball Championships. He was selected to his third-straight All-Star Game …” „… to play in the 1938 East-West All-Star Game at Comiskey Park in Chicago on August 21. He finished …” „… (Homestead Grays), 1bRev Cannady (New York Black Yankees), 3bSam Bankhead (Pittsburgh Crawfords), cfBill …”

CHAPTER 8. THE BROTHERS RETURN S. 69-74

„… of the environment of the baseball and basketball worlds—white and black. He probably felt that he …” „… from the Pacific Rim, Ted Jr. focused somewhat on resharpening his basketball skills and getting into …” „… individuals due to the fact that they were human beings with God-given talents.Colored Stars UncorkFunfest …”

INDEX S. 167-172

„… Berean Baptist Church, 57, 96Birmingham Black Barons, 44, 90, 98, 108Black, Timuel (Tim) D., Jr., 34, 42 …” „… -Jenkins.indb 167 8/2/16 11:50 AM168 IndexChicago Sun-Times, 118Chicago Tribune, 8, 119Chicago’s Black …” „… Belt (Black Belt), 6, 8, 13, 46, 57, 91–93, 96, 105–6Christgau, John, 92Clayton, Zack, 69, 72Cleveland …”

CHAPTER 2. “TED WAS BIG FOR HIS AGE” S. 11-14

„… to play basketball against other youths from other neighborhoods in the Black Belt. Strong Sr. and …” „… Lake View High School in Chicago and had been a star backcourt man on the basketball team. After …” „… 112“TED WAS BIG FOR HIS AGE”Strong Sr. organized a group of youth to play basketball. “Iron Man …”

CHAPTER 7. 1942–1943: A SEASON OF CHANGE, WORLD WAR II CALLS S. 57-68

„… basketball and baseball star remained constant while serving in the South Pacific. Ted Jr. stayed connected …” „… throughout the Black Belt on Chicago’s South Side.Strong, Sr. exposed his children to community events …” „… , taking them to Ted Jr.’s baseball or basketball games in Chicago. Jasper Strong recalls viv-idly how he …”

Preface

„… East-West All-Star Game, 1933–1953; Black Base-ball in Chicago; and The Negro Leagues Book. I contacted him …” „… STRONG JR.The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-StarSHERMAN L …” „… : Ted Strong Jr. : the untold story of an original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star …”

APPENDIX B: QUOTES ABOUT TED STRONG JR. S. 129-132

„… gigantic meat hooks (“The biggest hands in basketball,” Abe would say), who was also an All-Star first …” „… Monarchs, Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues by John Holway, page 29016_366-Jenkins.indb 129 …” „… , Kansas City Monarchs, Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues by John Holway, page 345A trace of …”

APPENDIX A: FACTS ABOUT TED STRONG JR. S. 127-128

„… Baseball East-West All-Star Games. In 1939 he received 508,327 votes, the most in all of black baseball …” „… players in East-West All-Star Classics, six feet, six inches.BASKETBALL• Ted Jr. was a key member of the …” „… 1940 Harlem Globetrotter basket-ball team that won the World Professional Basketball Championship.• Ted …”

EPILOGUE S. 123-126

„… sports landscape. As a young African American living in the Black Belt of Chicago, he had dreams and …” „… biggest hands in basketball.”As he excelled in the African American sports world, it can be said that he …” „… Leagues stars. When Ted Jr. finally decided that he might as well enjoy himself while he could, it was a …”

CHAPTER 11. TED JR.’S YOUNGER BROTHER BEGINS TO “BREAK ’EM” OFF S. 105-116

„… African Americans in the Black Belt to gather for picnics, to enjoy the many lagoons, and to partici-pate …” „… teaching his boys the games he loved—baseball and basketball. Gordon and his brothers knew that Othello’s …” „… parks of the Black Belt to gain notoriety for himself. Finally, one of the Industrial League teams …”

CHAPTER 9. “LIFE FOR ME AIN’T BEEN NO CRYSTAL STAIR” S. 75-0

„… that most guys had their sights set on other things than black baseball. Jackie Robinson had played …” „… Globetrotters. He rejoined the team for the 1946–1947 basketball season, and the Globetrot-ters paraded him in …” „… , Utah. As Ted Jr. continued to shine and receive accolades in basketball, the African American press …”

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY S. 163-166

„… /100%2 0NCB.pdf.Black, Timuel D., Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration …” „… City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.Buck, Dennis …” „… , Dick, Miller, Sammy J., and Lester, Larry. Black Baseball in Chicago. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2000 …”

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David K. Wiggins

More Than a Game

2018

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Documents S. 221-286

„… college stars!In trying to find the logical reason for the apparent prevailing discrimi-nation against the …” „… AmusementW. E. B. Du Bois, the great black intellectual and civil rights activist, was a prolific writer who …” „… following essay published in the Southern Workman (1897), Du Bois notes that the black church had …”

Chapter 7. Race, Black Athletes, and the Globalization of Sport S. 159-194

„… other supposedly more serious endeavors. Not unexpectedly, several black stars in basketball would …” „… basketball, blacks make up some 61 percent of college teams and 74.4 percent of NBA players. At the 2016 …” „… Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, seven of the twelve players on the women’s basketball team were black …”

Chapter 3. Sport behind the Walls of Segregation S. 51-78

„… sports that were most important to women at black colleges were basketball and track and field. African …” „… number of women’s basketball and track and field programs at black colleges that were established and …” „… women’s basketball programs at black col-leges during the first half of the twentieth century. One of the …”

Chapter 5. Reintegration of Sport and Its Aftermath S. 105-130

„… basketball and the fact that black teams had always played against white teams seemingly played a part in …” „… American players. One of the black players signed by the Chevrolets was Bill Jones, a former star at the …” „… integration of other professional sports, it also meant the death knell for many all-black basketball teams …”

Index S. 287-300

„… “Puffy,” 166Comiskey Park, 73–74community: baseball, 75; on basketball, 27–28; black, 275; on boxing, 101 …” „… East-West All-Star Game, 76EBC. See Entertainers Basketball ClassicECL. See Eastern Colored LeagueEdmonds …” „… American Basketball Leagueacademia, 64–77, 149ACC. See Atlantic Coast ConferenceACLU. See American Civil …”

Chapter 6. Sport and the Civil Rights Movement S. 131-158

„… concerns about the plight of black Americans. The physically gifted and highly cerebral basketball star …” „… made history by capturing the NCAA basketball cham-pionship with a starting lineup made up of all black …” „… first black head coach at the Division I level in college basketball did not occur until 1970 when …”

Notes S. 201-208

„… . Wiggins, “Sport and Popular Pastimes,” 74.11. Ibid.12. Edward Hotaling, The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives …” „… : Harvard University Press, 2014), 1–17.Chapter Two1. Louis Moore, “Fit for Citizenship: Black Sparring …” „… Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004 …”

Chapter 2. Freedom to Participate on an Unlevel Playing Field S. 23-50

„… high school and college levels.While the black community obviously embraced basketball, it was …” „… in their efforts as southern states passed legislation, commonly known as the Black Codes, which …” „… and revival, evolved into a group that spewed hatred and intimidated not just blacks, but also …”

Bibliographic Essay S. 213-220

„… at the all-black Crispus Attucks high school basketball team in his But They Can’t Beat Us!: Oscar …” „… and careers of early black athletes at both the amateur and professional levels of competition …” „… : Johnson Publishing, 1963); Wally Jones and Jim Washington, Black Champions Challenge American Sports (New …”

Chapter 4. Striving to Be Full Participants in America’s Pastimes S. 79-104

„… , Jr., honors student and basketball star at Columbia University, took his law degree from St. John’s …” „… Tech’s benching of star end Hoot Gibson. In the end, the teams two best players, one white and one black …” „… American boxers during this period at various weight divisions who realized hero status in the black …”

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When Women Stood

2023

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Ten Media Relations and the Second-Wave Woman S. 105-118

„… – ) as his two stars.By 1980, still a relative newcomer to the sport, McLish won the first-ever title of …” „… one ever won.In 1902, Sandwina was a star.It was not until 1985 that her record of a …” „… co-owner of the Women’s National Basketball Association’s (WNBA) Seattle Storm, called the team’s …”

Twenty Game Changers S. 249-266

„… Oklahoma City University) and now coaches wrestling at McKendree University Stars.8Mildred Bliss, also …” „… just a matter of organization and permission.Just as women’s basketball went through a number of …” „… professional formats—such as the American Basketball League (ABL), the Women’s Basketball Development …”

Eight A League of Their Own S. 77-94

„… different teams—Kit playing with the Racine Belles as a sometimes wild-throwing but all-star pitcher …” „… Traveling All-Stars, a semipro men’s team, but she played in the women’s league for the Bloomer Girls as …” „… , Black women were never allowed to play. In 1947, when Jackie Robinson was signed to Major League 80 …”

Notes S. 287-328

„… , “Basketball Star Sue Bird Says WNBA Players’ Ac-tivism Is ‘Non-negotiable,’” NPR, October 25, 2020 …” „… , https://www.npr.org /2020/10/25/927492785/basketball-star-sue-bird-says-wnba-players-activism -is-nonnegotiable. Notes …” „… d’histoire 238 (1978): 16–17.11. Stanley Alpern, Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey (New …”

Six The Importance of Race, Sports, and the Polite Society S. 53-62

„… revealed.NONWHITE WOMEN FIND A FOOTHOLDExcluded from national competitions, Black female athletes (if not all …” „… and basketball were inexpen-sive and offered fairly easy-to-find/easy-to-use venues.Dorothy Cure, a …” „… high jumper from Lynchburg, Virginia, was such an athlete. She was the first Black woman to set a …”

Fifteen The Closing of the Twentieth Century S. 179-194

„… players Mia Hamm (1972– ) and Julie Foudy (1971– ), volleyball sensation Gabrielle Reece, basketball star …” „… wartime All-American Girls Professional Baseball League but also professional and semipro basketball and …” „… sport and society, but there were always stars who shone for upholding the feminine ideal.THE TROUBLE …”

Five Women of Color and Their Place in the Women’s Movement S. 39-52

„… themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”1 Notably, no Black women spoke at the convention …” „… Chapter Fivefor the return of her son and won, making her the first Black woman to win a court case …” „… treatment among women, particularly those of Black women even within the women’s movement.This would never …”

Twelve Exploitation of the Female Image S. 137-150

„… friendly than elusive Hollywood stars while, in reality, influencers have been found to portray luxurious …” „… program for the best and the brightest of rising track stars. Exploitation of the Female Image 139Yet …” „… basketball, the explosive lateral (side-to-side) and stop-and-go movements place intense wear and tear on the …”

Nine The Real History behind Title IX and the Battle of the Sexes S. 95-104

„… arrested. Following her trial, the Black community protested the Montgomery bus transport (known as the …” „… star Billie Jean King (1943– ). It was an exhibition that had by far the greatest cultural impact of …” „… “Sportsman of the Year,” alongside basketball great John Wooden.It had been King who pushed for women’s …”

Thirteen Modern Medicine for the Modern Woman S. 151-170

„… associated with NFL players), based simply on gender.Akers was the first female soccer star in the United …” „… competitive risks made her an international star but also brought about significant damage. In her playing …” „… dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS).19It took one of the biggest stars in the sports world to normalize CFIDS, a …”

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