New Books in Sports
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Mitchell Nathanson, "Bouton: The Life of a Base...
Nathanson examines the life of Jim Bouton, a journeyman pitcher whose 1970 book, “Ball Four,” was a lightning rod for controversy and became one of the best sports books of all time....
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Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Ga...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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David Block, "Pastime Lost: The Humble, Origina...
Block painstakingly recovers the origins of baseball games through a close reading of a wide variety of 18th-century sources including newspaper clippings, novels, and diaries...
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Yaron Weitzman, "Tanking to the Top" (Grand Cen...
In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst -- to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow...
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Tim Rooney, "John Beilein at Michigan: A Basket...
During his twelve years in Ann Arbor, Beilein became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks...
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Gerald R. Gems, "Sport and the Shaping of Civic...
Gems provides readers with an extensive overview of how the diverse stakeholders of the metropolis have "used" sport in their neighborhoods (as well as the broader community) to claim their share of athletic life in the Windy City...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: F...
In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.
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Mort Zachter, "Red Holzman: The Life and Legacy...
From humble beginnings as the son of immigrant parents growing up in Brooklyn, Holzman paved a path of excellence at every level...
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Nicholas Blincoe, "More Noble Than War: A Socce...
Blincoe offers a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state...
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Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten...
Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...
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Brad Balukjian, "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road...
A combination of Charles Kuralt and Lawrence Ritter, Balukjian’s work examines 14 baseball players pulled from a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Christopher J. Phillips, "Scouting and Scoring:...
Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: Georg...
Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...
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John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: I...
Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?
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Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet:...
Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...
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Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, ...
In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.
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Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
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Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer,...
The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups...
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contac...
Earl Campbell was a force in American football...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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