Play-By-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport

by Ronald A. Smith

Book Overview

Noted sports historian writes on the relationship of the media to college athletics.

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 by Choice Magazine

The phenomenal popularity of college athletics owes as much to media coverage of games as it does to drum-beating alumni and frantic undergraduates. Play-by-play broadcasts of big college games began in the 1920s via radio, a medium that left much to the listener's imagination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801866863
• ISBN13: 9780801866869
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher