New Books in Sports
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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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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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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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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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Jack Gilden, “Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas...
Today we are joined by Jack Gilden, author of the book Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula, and the Rise of the Modern NFL (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). In this groundbreaking book, Gilden takes the reader back to the Baltimore Colts o...
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Antonio Sotomayor, “The Sovereign Colony: Olymp...
Today we are joined by Antonio Sotomayor, Assistant Professor and Librarian of Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sotomayor is the author of The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity,
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D. G. Surdam and M. J. Haupert, “The Age of Rut...
Today we are joined by David George Surdam, co-author with Michael J. Haupert of the book The Age of Ruth and Landis: The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). In this work,
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Skip Desjardin, “September 1918: War, Plague, a...
Today we are joined by Skip Desjardin, author of the book September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series (Regnery History, 2018). In this work, which blends sports and history together, Desjardin looks at the historic and turbulent events of Septemb...
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Gerald Gems, “Sport and the American Occupation...
Today we are joined by Gerald Gems, Professor of Kinesiology at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and the author of several books on sports history including Sport in American History: From Colonization to Globalization (2017),
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Gregory Snyder, “Skateboarding LA: Inside Profe...
Today we are joined by Gregory Snyder, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), and author of Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding (New York University Press, 2017).
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Jesse Berrett, “Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Rem...
Today we are joined by Jesse Berrett, author of Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2018). Berrett is a high school history teacher at University High School in San Francisco.
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David Wanczyk, “Beep: Inside the Unseen World o...
We all know baseball as one of America’s fondest pastimes, but did you know there’s a version of the sport designed specifically for the blind? It’s called Beep Ball, and the players, with the exception of the pitcher, are all visually impaired.
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