Sol Butler by Brian Hallstoos
A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fame into business prosperity. Brian Hallstoos tells the story of a Black athlete's canny use of mainstream middle-class values and relationships with white society to transcend the athletic, economic, and social barriers imposed by white supremacy. Butler built on his feats as a high school athlete to become a four-year starter for the football team at Dubuque German College (later the University of Dubuque), a record-setting sprinter and long jumper, and an Olympian at the 1920 Summer Games. Hallstoos follows Butler's sporting accomplishments while charting how family and interracial communities influenced the ways Butler tested the limits of social and physical mobility and gave him an exceptional ability to discern where he might be most free. From there, Hallstoos turns to Butler's use of fame to boost his entrepreneurial efforts and his multifaceted success capitalizing on his celebrity in the Black communities of Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. An engaging look at a forgotten trailblazer, Sol Butler illuminates the multifaceted life of a Black sports entrepreneur.-
The Revolt of the Black Athlete
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Rocky Marciano
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Saying It's So
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Baseball
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Sweet William
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The Sport Marriage
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Sandow the Magnificent
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Surf and Rescue
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Benching Jim Crow
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Cold War Games
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Extra Innings
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Dyed in Crimson
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The Gridiron Gospel
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Sex Testing
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Baseball and Cricket
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Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ
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Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites
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The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
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People of Prowess
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The Gold in the Rings
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Fighting
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Television and National Sport
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Heroes or Zeros? the Media's Perceptions of Paralympic Sport
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Team Chemistry
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A View from the Bench
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The End of Baseball As We Knew It
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Beyond the Field
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Sports in the Western World
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Golf in America
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Pigskin Nation
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The Creation of American Team Sports
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Paralympic Legacies
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Golf and the American Country Club
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Harry Hooper
Brian Hallstoos is a professor at the University of Dubuque.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780252089121 |
| ISBN 10 | 025208912X |
| Title | Sol Butler |
| Author | Brian Hallstoos |
| Series | Sport And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Year published | 2026-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |