“The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in …
Author Michael MacCambridge talks about how no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade: the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes` gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports