(Free pdf) BETTING THE LINE: SPORTS WAGERING IN AMERICAN LIFE
✿ RICHARD O. DAVIES, RICHARD G. ABRAM ✿
| #2723823 in Books | Ohio State Univ Pr (Trd) | 2001-07-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.51 x5.98l, | File Name: 0814250785 | 212 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Non Fiction|By average|An overview of American sports betting, done in a bit of an academic style. The author is not particularly familiar with the inner workings of the industry it seems, and is looking at it from mostly a historical and sociological point of view, so only get this is that is the sort of book you are after, it really isn't that good.|From Booklist|Davies and Abram deliver a comprehensive history of one form of gambling you won't find on a riverboat--sports betting. Even early American settlers bet on games, say the authors, which is why they
Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life is a study of gambling, particularly sports gambling, and how it has thrived in American culture. According to Davies and Abram, the culture of betting results from two complementary influences in American society: risk taking and speculation. This is the first effort by academic writers to describe and interpret the history of sports wagering in the United States. Although many books have been written about "how...
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