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Wrestling to Rasslin': Ancient Sport to American Spectacle

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Wrestling to Rasslin' traces the roots of one of man's oldest competitive sports. Beginning in sporting bars in the late 1800s and graduating to Barnum sideshow tents, wrestling has thrilled the world over with such early athletes as William Muldoon, George Hackenschmidt, and Tom Jenkins. After World War II and the advent of television, wrestling took a turn toward the dramatic, emphasizing conflicts between good and evil.

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Wrestling to Rasslin': Ancient Sport to American Spectacle 2005, University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-13: 9780879723248

Trade paperback

Wrestling to Rasslin: Ancient Sport to American Spectacle 1985, Bowling Green State University Popular Press

ISBN-13: 9780879723231

Hardcover