New Books in Sports
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.
Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com
Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork
251
Harvey Araton, "Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fa...
Araton's book reads like a mix between Tuesdays with Morrie and a sequel to his book When the Garden was Eden (which chronicled the New York Knicks’ early-70s title teams). It’s a book about friendship, aging and of course, basketball....
47 min
252
Travis Vogan, "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of...
Vogan traces the cultural impact of ABC Sports rise in the 1950s until its demise in the 1990s....
54 min
253
Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The I...
For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...
42 min
254
Chas Smith, "Cocaine and Surfing: A Sordid Hist...
Irreverent, cynical, and surprisingly erudite, Chas Smith tells us time and time again that he hates being a surf journalist and despise the surfing industry....
63 min
255
Steven M. Ortiz, "The Sport Marriage: Women Who...
Ortiz offers an in-depth analysis of and perceive insight into what is means to be an athlete’s wife in a male-dominated institution of professional sports...
54 min
256
Grégory Quin, "Des Réseaux et des Hommes: Parti...
Quin joins nine other scholars in a critical examination of Switzerland’s sports history...
54 min
257
David Davis, "Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed ...
Out of the carnage of World War II comes an unforgettable tale about defying the odds and finding hope in the most harrowing of circumstances...
45 min
258
Joel S. Franks, "Asian American Basketball: A C...
What roles has the game played in the lives of individuals and communities of Asian Americans in the United States?
37 min
259
Barbara Keys, "The Ideals of Global Sport: From...
In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Olympism’s moral claims, the nexus between sport and human rights, and why it can be hard to understand the human costs of contemporary mega-events....
50 min
260
Corey Sobel, "The Red Shirt" (UP of Kentucky, 2...
At first, Miles Furling plays football to fit in. By eighth grade he realizes that he is both gay and a football player...
39 min
261
Ralph Carhart, "The Hall Ball" (McFarland, 2020)
For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased...
40 min
262
Ron Snyder, "The Baltimore Stallions: The Brief...
The Baltimore Stallions. Fans loved them. Then they were no more...
44 min
263
James Carter, "Champions Day: The End of Old Sh...
Shanghai’s status as a bustling, international place both now and in the past hardly needs much introduction, although the centrality of horse racing to the earlier incarnation of the city’s cosmopolitanism is less known...
61 min
264
J. Iber and M. Longoria, "Latinos in American F...
Iber and Longoria the origins of Latino American football, the role of World War II and the Civil Rights movement in expanding opportunities for Latino sportsmen, and the ongoing obstacles to Latino participation in the game that many love....
66 min
265
Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Suga...
Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....
50 min
266
Sasha Abramsky, "Little Wonder: The Fabulous St...
Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...
63 min
267
José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sport...
Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...
44 min
268
Jeremy Bhandari, "Trust the Grind: How World-Cl...
A ‘success habit’ point of view. Learn the secrets behind success, and what it takes to remain on top...
41 min
269
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics...
The edited volume is not only an at times ethnographic dive into Middle Eastern sports’ multiple facets but also in many ways a mapping of how much remains to be explored....
66 min
270
Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: ...
Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...
60 min
271
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated ...
Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB...
59 min
272
Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Scien...
Do streaks exist?
40 min
273
John Harney, "Empire of Infields: Baseball in T...
Harney argues that baseball was not necessarily a place for the formation of a Taiwanese nationalist identity, nor was it a space for colonial resistance to the Japanese, but instead it was a site for mutual engagement and cultural genesis with the Japanese...
62 min
274
Allan Downey, "The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Id...
Downey examines the role that lacrosse played and continues to play in the construction of settler-colonial and indigenous identity in Canada...
58 min
275
Jonathan Gelber, "Tiger Woods’s Back and Tommy ...
Gelber examines several athletes through the prism of the “Cobra Effect, ”a phenomenon that occurs when an attempted solution to a problem results in an unintended consequence...
34 min