The Rise of Sport

A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms

THE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC  L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917. 

FREDERIC  L.  PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier. (Wikipedia)

Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Audio copyright 2024

Audio cover picture - Photos of America the first America’s Cup winner; John L. Sullivan in 1882; 1896 Baltimore Orioles baseball club. All from Wikipedia.

Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now.  Read online at archive.org

Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.