Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling - Sports and American Culture - Jon Langmead - Books - University of Missouri Press - 9780826222992 - January 19, 2024
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Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling - Sports and American Culture

Jon Langmead

Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling - Sports and American Culture

Offers a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the US, from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the ‘sport’ as we know it.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 19, 2024
ISBN13 9780826222992
Publishers University of Missouri Press
Pages 316
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 33 mm   ·   626 g
Language English