Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Aiello, Thomas, “The Fading of the Greys: Black Baseball and Historical Memory in Little Rock,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 360–84.
Carriere, Michael H., “‘A Diamond Is a Boy’s Best Friend’: The Rise of Little League Baseball, 1939–1964,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Fall 2005), 351–37.
Galily, Yair, and Michael Bar-Eli, “From Tal Brody to European Champions: Early Americanization and the ‘Golden Age’ of Israeli Basketball, 1965–1979,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Fall 2005), 303–27.
Holman, Andrew C., “Stops and Starts: Ideology, Commercialism, and the Fall of American Women’s Hockey in the 1920s,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Fall 2005), 328–50.
Isserman, Maurice, “Highest Adventure,” American Heritage, 58 (Feb.–March 2007), 58–70. Heavily illustrated.
Laun, Peter, “Burning Up the Lake: Racing on Elkhart Lake’s Historic Road Circuit,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Spring 2007), 16–26. Heavily illustrated.
Pomrenke, Jacob, “Bringing Home the Bacon: How the Chicago ‘Black Sox’ Got Back into Baseball and Gave Bragging Rights to One Illinois Town’s Team,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Winter 2006), 265–82.
Fury, Frank P., “Sporting Traditions, Southern Traditions, and the National Mythmaking of Modern America in Selected Works of William Faulkner” (Drew University, 2006). Order No. DA3222205.
Gonzales, Nathan Daniel, “‘Visit yesterday, today’: Ethno-tourism and Southern California, 1884–1955” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226543.
Pond, Ann Janine Jurgens, “The Ritualized Construction of Status: The Men Who Made Mardi Gras, 1830–1900” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225229.
Richey, Edward Duke, “Living It Up in Aspen: Post-War America, Ski Town Culture, and the New Western Dream, 1945–1975” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3227359.
Lewis, Catherine M., “Don’t Ask What I Shot”: How Eisenhower’s Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950s America. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2007. xvi, 304 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-07-148570-8.)
Morris, Peter, Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 184 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1110-0.)
Weiss, Stuart L., The Curt Flood Story: The Man behind the Myth. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xvi, 251 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1740-0.)
Deaver, Philip F., ed., Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxviii, 327 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5991-1.)
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