Ballyhoo! by Jon Langmead

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/63313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ballyhoo! Author: Jon Langmead Narrator: Kirk Winkler Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins Release date: 05-10-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 28 ratings Genres: Sports History Publisher's Summary: Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling 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.