"In [this book], Brad Schultz covers the most significant and momentous sports stories from this single year in American history, reflecting on the deeper impact of these events on both the sporting world and society as a whole. Integration, homosexuality, drugs, lawsuits, and tragedy all crossed the sporting landscape in 1970, including such pivotal moments as student-athlete protests against racism in college football, the debut of Monday Night Football, a challenge to baseball's reserve clause, and the plane crash that killed Marshall University's football team. Schultz recounts these stories and more, thoughtfully placing them within the context of the political, social, and cultural events occuring across the country and around the world." -- P. [4] Cover.
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