Recent Scholarship
Sports and Recreation
Barker-Ruchti, Natalie, “Ballerinas and Pixies: A Genealogy of the Changing Female Gymnastics Body,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 45–62.
Craine, David M., “Image Enhancement: Three Chicago Institutions and the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, 1924–1941,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 205–20.
Darby, Paul, “‘Without the Aid of a Sporting Safety Net?’: The Gaelic Athletic Association and the Irish Emigre in San Francisco (1888–c. 1938),” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 63–83.
Dyreson, Mark, “The Endless Olympic Bid: Los Angeles and the Marketing of the American West,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 26–39.
Dyreson, Mark, and Matthew Llewellyn, “Los Angeles Is the Olympic City: Legacies of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 25 (Dec. 2008), 1991–2018.
Essington, Amy, “Equality on the Baseball Diamond: Integrating the Pacific Coast League, 1948–1952,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 49–59.
Gems, Gerald R., “Blocked Shot: The Development of Basketball in the African-American Community of Chicago,” in The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City, ed. Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems, 281–98. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.)
Gutman, Marta, “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the wpa Swimming Pools in New York City,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 532–61.
Henderson, Simon, “Crossing the Line: Sport and the Limits of Civil Rights Protest,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 101–21.
Lomax, Michael, “Not Quite Ready for Prime Time: The Pacific Coast League’s Attempt to Become a Third Major League in Baseball,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 14–25.
McMurray, David, “Rivaling the Gentleman in the Gentle Art: The Authority of the Victorian Woman Angler,” Sport History Review, 39 (Nov. 2008), 99–126.
Smith, Maureen, “Willie Mays Plaza, McCovey Point, and the Dominican Dandy in Bronze: (De)Constructing History at AT&T Park in San Francisco,” Journal of the West, 47 (Fall 2008), 60–69.
Tope, Jennifer Day, “Fighting the Second World War in Paradise with a Bat and Glove: Major League Baseball Comes to Hawai‘i,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 265–76.
Wong, John Chi-Kit, “Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Chicago Blackhawks,” in The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City, ed. Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems, 253–80. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.)
Demas, Lane, “Integrating the Gridiron: Civil Rights and American College Football, 1935–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3311554.
Kaliss, Gregory John, “Everyone’s All-Americans: Race, Men’s College Athletics, and the Ideal of Equal Opportunity” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304342.
Lansbury, Jennifer H., “Champions Indeed: The Emergence of African American Women Athletes in American Society, 1930–1960” (George Mason University, 2008). Order No. DA3313515.
Lawler, Kristin, “Radical: The Image of the Surfer and the Politics of Popular Culture” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3310642.
Taylor, Tom, “The Servant Leadership of John Wooden” (Pepperdine University, 2008). Order No. DA3307917.
Brownell, Susan, ed., The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 471 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1098-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Ezra, Michael, Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $69.50, isbn 978-1-59213-661-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-59213-662-9.)
Fountain, Charles, Under the March Sun: The Story of Spring Training. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 322 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-537203-8.)
Kuska, Bob, Cinderella Ball: A Look Inside Small-College Basketball in West Virginia. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xx, 289 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1392-0.)
Riess, Steven A., and Gerald R. Gems, eds., The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 368 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03281-3. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07615-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
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