Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling
$36.95
Subject: Sports & Recreation
Author: Langmead, Jon
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Date Published: 01-2024
ISBN: 0826222994 | EAN: 9780826222992
BasicBinding: Hardcover
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 316
Annotation: "Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation"--
"Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation"--
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