TY - BOOK AU - Hardy,Stephen AU - Herlihy,Mark ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community, 1865-1915 SN - 9781555538750 AV - GV584.5.B6 H37 2019 KW - Sports KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Massachusetts KW - Boston KW - History KW - Boston (Mass.) KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Reprint of 1982 edition, with new foreword; Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-264) and index; Open Access N2 - How Boston Played is a double delight. It chronicles the birth of Boston sports from early Redstockings games and college rowing regattas, to the exploits of the "Boston Strong Boy," John L. Sullivan. Looking beyond just sporting events, though, it seeks to uncover the sources of the mania for recreation that swept the Hub following the Civil War. As How Boston Played illustrates, the rise of sport is firmly entwined in both the city's development and, more importantly, in a people's search for community. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 1982. With a new foreword by Mark Herlihy UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68423/ ER -