Wrestling at the Chase
"The Inside story of Sam Muchnick and the Legends of Professional Wrestling"
Professional wrestling always received sneers from the academic elite. Any attempt at serious study of the history of professional wrestling a would be met to with embarrassing laughter. Professional wrestling despite being a large part to other American popular culture has always been met to with negativity.
On the history book on the subject would be laughable. Or so it seems. The offer of this book provides an interesting look into the history of professional wrestling in St. Louis from the 1940s any early days of the national wrestling alliance (NWA) up until its demise in the late 1980s.
The St. Louis territory was a different professional wrestling promotion that many of the others. It revolves around credibility and logic to assets that were sorely missing from most professional wrestling organization that time.
This book with the major players at the major use of wrestling's glory days and does so within the context of its importance to television popular culture and how any material to be presented such a way that it may appear prestigious despite the lowbrow nature of some of its competitors.
It this book is a must have the wrestling fans television students and anyone with a passing interest in sports entertainment history.