Game Faces: Five Early American Champions and the Sports They Changed

by Thomas H. Pauly

This compelling blend of biography and cultural history depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had a transformative effect on their sports and on the evolution of sports in general. Tom Stevens was the first man to ride a bicycle, "a high wheeler," around the world (1884-87). Fanny Bullock Workman completed seven expeditions into the Himalayas between 1898 and 1912. Bill Reid,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238177
• ISBN13: 9780803238176
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"