Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Abelson, Donald E., “Politics on Ice: The United States, the Soviet Union, and a Hockey Game in Lake Placid,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 40 (no. 1, 2010), 63–94.
Gilbert, Matthew Sakiestewa, “Hopi Footraces and American Marathons, 1912–1930,” American Quarterly, 62 (March 2010), 77–101.
Gripentrog, John, “The Transnational Pastime: Baseball and American Perceptions of Japan in the 1930s,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 247–73.
Jackson, Harvey H., III, “The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: The Northern Rim of the Gulf Coast since World War II,” Southern Cultures, 16 (Spring 2010), 7–30.
Meyers, Christopher, “‘Unrelenting War on Football’: The Death of Richard Von Gammon and the Attempt to Ban Football in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Winter 2009), 388–407.
Young, Terence, “‘A Contradiction in Democratic Government’: W. J. Trent Jr. and the Struggle to Desegregate National Park Campgrounds,” Environmental History, 14 (Oct. 2009), 651–82.
Baker, Samuel Zebulon, “Fields of Contest: Race, Region, and College Football in the U.S. South, 1945–1975” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3360033.
Borgelt, Bryon, “Flies Only: Early Sport Fishing Conservation on Michigan’s Au Sable River” (University of Toledo, 2009). Order No. DA3361957.
Hildebrandt, Lori Madeline, “Mat Game: The Rise of American Wrestling” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364704.
Kieffner, Gary L., “Riding the Borderlands: The Negotiation of Social and Cultural Boundaries for Rio Grande Valley and Southwestern Motorcycling Groups, 1900–2000” (University of Texas, El Paso, 2009). Order No. DA3358876.
Kolb, Carole, “Coaching from the Sidelines: A Comparative History of the Role of University Presidents in Intercollegiate Football” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367325.
Achorn, Edward, Fifty-nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had. (New York: HarperCollins, 2010. xvi, 366 pp. $25.99, isbn 978-0-06-182586-6.)
Armour, Mark, Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xiv, 382 pp. $31.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2530-5.)
Davies, Richard O., Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xviii, 284 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-1-4051-7765-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-4051-7764-1.)
Gay, Timothy M., Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball before Jackie Robinson. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. xviii, 349 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-4798-3.)
Jamieson, Dave, Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession. (New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2010. 272 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8021-1939-1.)
Kurlansky, Mark, The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís. (New York: Riverhead, 2010. 272 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59448-750-7.)
Lowenfish, Lee, The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball’s Labor Wars. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xviii, 327 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8032-3360-7.) Orignially published in 1980.
Moore, Michael Scott, Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results. (New York: Rodale, 2010. viii, 328 pp. $25.99, isbn 978-1-60529-427-8.)
Pacheco, Ferdie, Tales from the 5th St. Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami’s Golden Age of Boxing. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xvi, 250 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3436-2.)
Ruck, Rob, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber, Rooney: A Sporting Life. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxx, 641 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2283-0.)
Spatz, Lyle, and Steve Steinberg, 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxii, 515 pp. $31.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2060-7.)
Craft, Jerry, and Kathleen Sullivan, Our White Boy. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010. xxx, 241 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-674-1.)
Sullivan, Dean A., Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972–2008. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxiv, 344 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5965-2.)
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