Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: The Power of Nine -- Introduction: Thoughts on Fame and Infamy -- Barry Bonds: Of Passion and Hostility -- Kirby Puckett: A Middle American Tragedy -- Don't Believe the Hype: The Racial Representation of Mike Tyson in Three Acts -- Lost in Translation: Voice, Masculinity, Race, and the 1998 Home Run Chase -- Branch Rickey: Moral Capitalist -- Inextricably Linked: Joe Louis and Max Schmeling Revisited -- Mortgaging Michael Jordan's Reputation -- A Precarious Perch: Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Stardom, and Racial Politics -- Jim Brown: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of a Cultural Icon -- Afterword: Sports and the Iron Fist of Myth -- Contributors -- Index.

Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found themselves falling out of favor with the public. The contributors focus on the roles played by athletes, the media, and fans in describing how once-esteemed popular figures find themselves scorned by the same public that at one time viewed them as heroic, laudable, or otherwise respectable. The book examines a wide range of sports and eras, and includes essays on Barry Bonds, Kirby Puckett, Mike Tyson, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, Branch Rickey, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jim Brown, as well as an afterword by noted scholar Jack Lule and an introduction by the editors. Fame to Infamy is an interdisciplinary volume encompassing numerous approaches in tracing the evolution of each subjectÃ?'s reputation and shifting public image.

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