Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Carvalho, John, and Raymond Ankney, “Haunted by the Babe: Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick’s Columns about Babe Ruth,” American Journalism, 25 (Fall 2008), 65–82.
Childers, Leisl Carr, “The National Finals Rodeo: The Evolution of an Urban Entertainment Phenomenon,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Winter 2008), 267–91.
Graham, Jessica, “Joe Louis contra Max Schmeling e a nova ideologia da democracia racial nos Estados Unidos” (Joes Louis vs. Max Schmeling and the new ideology of racial democracy in the usa), Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), 13 (no. 25, 2008), 98–119. In Portugese.
Kirsch, George B., “Municipal Golf and Civil Rights in the United States, 1910–1965,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 371–91.
Miller, Mark, “The Timbisha Shoshone and the National Park Idea: Building toward Accommodation and Acknowledgment at Death Valley National Park, 1933–2000,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Winter 2008), 415–45.
Patterson, Alan Owen, “The Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Experience with Baseball in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century,” Modern Judaism, 28 (Feb. 2008), 79–104.
Rowe, Beverly J., and David Jeane, “Catering to Railroad Travelers in Early Texarkana,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 375–85.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan, “Moscow versus Los Angeles: The Nixon White House Wages Cold War in the Olympic Selection Process,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Feb. 2009), 135–57.
Seifried, Chad, and Donna Pastore, “This Stadium Looks and Tastes Just Like the Others: Cookie-Cutter–Era Sports Facilities from 1953–1991,” Sport History Review, 40 (May 2009), 30–56.
Smith, Woody, “Climbing the ‘High Tops’ with Mary Cronin and the Colorado Mountain Club,” Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2008), 50–63.
Gamache, Raymond W., “Evolution of the Sportscast Highlight Form: From Peep Show to Pathé to Pastiche” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3315425.
Nelson, David J., “Florida Crackers and Yankee Tourists: The Civilian Conservation Corps, the Florida Park Service, and the Emergence of Modern Florida Tourism” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3321512.
Tremmel, Red Vaughan, “Sin City upon a Hill: Play, Urban Conflict, and the Rise of Commercial Liberality” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3322651.
Walters, Kirsten S., “Ultimate Spin: Contesting the Rhetoric, Countercultural Ethos, and Commodification of the Ultimate ‘Frisbee’ Sport, 1968–2008” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323475.
Baxter, John O., Cowboy Park: Steer-Roping Contests on the Border. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xxviii, 236 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-89672-642-0.)
Crawford, Russ, The Use of Sports to Promote the American Way of Life during the Cold War: Cultural Propaganda, 1945–1963. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. xx, 314 pp. $119.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5074-5.)
Mileur, Jerome M., High-Flying Birds: The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1834-6.)
Morris, Peter, Catcher: How the Man behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xii, 386 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-1-56663-822-7.)
Ring, Jennifer, Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv, 200 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-03282-0.)
Yep, Kathleen S., Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xvi, 199 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-59213-942-2.)
Bassett, James E. “Ted,” III, and Bill Mooney, Keeneland’s Ted Bassett: My Life. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xvi, 406 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2548-0.) Includes a dvd.
Whittlesey, Lee H., and Elizabeth A. Watry, eds., Ho! For Wonderland: Travelers’ Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872–1914. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xvi, 336 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4616-2.)
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