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Roy Hay, "Aboriginal People and Australian Foot...
Hay offers an extensively researched account of indigenous participation in Australian Rules Football from the origins of the game through the early twentieth century...
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History o...
Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...
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Susan Brownell, "The Anthropology of Sport: Bod...
In The Anthropology of Sport, understandably, the authors enlighten us about what the subfield entails, how anthropology is well suited to dissect the nature of sport, and provide us with ample anecdotes and observations of the world of sport through an ‘anthropological gaze.’
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Kerry Eggers, "Jail Blazers: How the Portland T...
In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA...
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Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Glo...
In "Hockey," Hardy and Holman offer a comprehensive and engaging history of the fastest game from it’s origins in a series of stick based contests, including early hockey, bandy, and polo through to the development of our contemporary commercial hockey best exhibited by the NHL and KHL.
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Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly C...
Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...
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Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A Hi...
Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,
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Chris Donnelly, "Doc, Donnie, The Kid and Billy...
Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...
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Bonita Mersiades, "Whatever It Takes: The Insid...
In "Whatever It Takes," Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process...
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Gregg Bocketti, "The Invention of the Beautiful...
Bocketti takes on the traditional nationalist narrative of Brazilian football, which suggests that their successful teams of the interwar and postwar era, which occurred following the shift from foot-ball to futebol in Brazil, arose from the countries specific cultural and racial heritage...
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Alexander Barnes, "Play Ball! Doughboys and Bas...
Blending sports and military history, the authors revisit the national pastime and the Doughboys who were fervent fans...
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Baseball Goes West: The D...
Ask a Brooklynite over the age of fifty and they’ll likely tell you that baseball’s golden age ended the day the Dodgers and Giants packed up and headed for the West Coast...
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Roger Robinson, "When Running Made History" (Sy...
“A race can mean more than a race,” Roger Robinson writes in his new book...
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Ron Keurajian, "Baseball Hall of Fame Autograph...
Keurajian provides historical perspective behind every autograph. He does not mince words when it comes to exposing forgeries and backs up his assertions with evidence...
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Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espio...
In the late 1980s, Gave was asked by the Detroit Red Wings to reach behind the Iron Curtain and initiate contact with the team's newest draft picks, two players on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey club...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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Natalie Koch, "Critical Geographies of Sport: S...
In Critical geographies, Koch joins other scholars to address a wide range of sports issues, including the demolition of South Korea’s Dongdaemun baseball stadium, professional wrestling in the territorial era in the United States, and the identity politics of the Gaelic Athletic Association...
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Danyel Reiche, "Success and Failure of Countrie...
In Success and Failure, Reiche provides a playbook for National Committees that want to win more medals...
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Peter Hopsicker and Mark Dyreson, "A Half Centu...
The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game...
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Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack, "The Ei...
It rose against the Texas sun in all its architectural audacity: a domed stadium big enough to cover a baseball field...
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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Grant Farred, "The Burden of Over-Representatio...
Today we are joined by Grant Farred, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University.
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Howard W. Rosenberg, “Ty Cobb Unleashed: The De...
Today we are joined by Howard W. Rosenberg, author of Ty Cobb Unleashed: The Definitive Counter-Biography of the Chastened Racist (Tile Books, 2018). In this deeply researched volume, Rosenberg achieves what many biographers have failed to do: to put C...
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Shelby Yastrow and Tony Jacklin, “Bad Lies” (Ma...
Questions about freedom of the press, defamation, libel and slander have been in the news quite a bit lately. Bad Lies (Mascot Books, 2017) tells the story of Eddie Bennison, who is over 50 when he makes it into the professional golf circuit.
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Jenifer Parks, “The Olympic Games, the Soviet S...
Today we are joined by Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History at Rocky Mountain College. Parks is the author of The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lexington Books, 2016),
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