At the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs generally recruited the top sporting graduates from private colleges--except one.
New York's Irish-American Athletic Club was founded by and for immigrants. Membership was not exclusively Irish--Jews, African-Americans, Scandinavians, Italians, even a handful of Englishmen joined the club, which dominated local and national athletics for more than a decade. The I-AAC laid claim.
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