Ballyhoo! : The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling

Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation"--

• | Author: Jon Langmead
• | Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 19, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 317 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0826222994
• | ISBN-13: 9780826222992