Riess, Steven A., Major Problems in Sport History, 1997.
Selected Readings
Jim Harper
Texas Tech University
Riess, Steven A., Major Problems in
Sport History, 1997.
Reference and Historiography:
American History and Life, CD-ROM, 1981-1993.
Davis, Lenwood, G., Black Athletes in the United States: A Bibliography, 1800-1981, 1981.
Larry Gerlach, "Not Quite Ready for Prime Time: Baseball History, 1983-1993," Journal of Sport Hisory 21 (Summer, 1994), 103-138.
Hexter, J.H., The History Primer, 1971, 149-194.
Miscrosoft, Complete Baseball CD-ROM, 1994.
Levine, Peter, American Sport: A Documentary History, paper, Prentice-Hall 1989.
Porter, David, The Biographical Dictionary of American Sport, 4 vols. plus , 1987.
Riess, Steven A., Major Problems in Sport History, 1997.
Remley, Mary Lou, Women in Sport: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide, 1900-1990, 1991.
Reiss, Steven J. (Ed.), Problems in American Sport History, (Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
Sports in North America: A Documentary History *
Sullivan, Dean, Early Innings A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908, 1995.
The Journal of Sport History published quarterly by the North American Society of Sport History.
Selected Works Arranged Alphabetically:
Adelman, Melvin, New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870, 1986.
Adelson, Bruce, Brushing Back Jim Crow : The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South , 1999.
Alexander, Charles, Ty Cobb, 1983.
Alexander, Charles, John McGraw, 1988.*
Alexander, Charles, Our Game: An American Baseball History, 1991.
Alexander, Charles, Rogers Hornsby, 1995.
Ashe, Arthur, with Kip Branch, Ocania Chalk, and Francis Harris, A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, 3 vols. , 1988.
Baker, William, Jesse Owens: An American Life, 1988.
Baker, William, Sports in the Western World, 1982.
Baker William and John Carroll, Sports in Modern America, 1983.*
Beisser, Arnold. The Madness in Sports, 1967.
Berry, Robert C., William Gould and Paul Standohar, Labor Relations in Professional Sports, 1986.
Betts, John R., America's Sporting Heritage, 1950-1950, 1974.
Billet, Brel L. and Lance J. Formwalt, America's National Pastime : A Study of Race and Merit in Professional Baseball 1995 .
Bissinger, H.G., Friday Night Lights, 1990.
Burk, Robert F., Never Just a Game: Players Owners, and American Baseball to 1920 1994
Cady, Edwin H., The Big Game: College Sports and American Life, 1989.*
Carson, Jane, Colonial Virginians at Play, 1965.
Cashman, Richard and Michael McKernan (eds.), Sport in History: The Making of Modern Sporting History), 1979.
Cavallo, Dominick, Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880-1920, 1981.
Chu, Donald, Jeffrey Segrave, and Beverley J. Becker (eds.), Sport and Higher Education, 1985.
Chu, Donald and Jeffrey Segrave, The Olympic Games in Transition, 1988.
Creamer, Robert, Baseball in 1941 1991.
Creamer, Robert, Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, 1974.
Creamer, Robert, Stengel: His Life and Times, 1984.
Crepeau, Richard, Baseball: America's Diamond Mind, 1980.
Dagavarian, Debra, Say It Ai'nt So: American Values as Revealed in Children's Baseball Stories 1880-1950, 1988.
Daniels, Bruce, Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in New England, 1995.
Deford, Frank, Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy, 1976.
Dennis DeValeria and Jeanne Burke DeValeria, Honus Wagner : A Biography , 1996
Duberman, Martin, Paul Robeson: A Biography, 1989.
Dulles, Foster R., A History of Recreation: America Learns to Play, 1940.
Edelman, Robert, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the U.S.S.R., 1993.
Edwards, Bob, Fridays with Red a Radio Friendship, 1993.
Edwards, Harry, The Revolt of the Black Athlete, 1970.
Englemann, Larry, The Goddess and the American Girl: Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, 1988. *
Fabian, Ann, Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th Century America. 1990.
Fleming, G.H., The Unforgettable Season: 1908, 1981.*
Fountain, Charles, Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice, 1993.
Friedman, Warren, Professional Sports and Anti-Trust, 1987.*
Gerber, Felshin et. al., The American Woman in Sports.
Gilmore, Al-Tony, Bad Nigger: The National Impact of Jack Johnson, 1975.*
Goldstein, Jeffrey H., (ed.), Sports Violence, 1983.
Goldstein, Warren Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, 1989.
Green, Harvey, Fit for America: Health Fitness, Sport and American Society, 1989. *
Gregorich, Barbara, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, 1993.
Gruneau, Richard, Class, Sports, and Social Development, 1983.
Guttmann, Allen, Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism, 1994.
Guttmann, Allen, From Ritual to Record, 1978.
Guttmann, Allen, Sports Spectators, 1987.
Guttmann, Allen, A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports, 1988.
Guttmann, Allan, Let the Games Go On: The Life of Avery Brundage, 1984.
Guttmann, Allen, The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, 1992.
Guttmann, Allen, Women's Sports: A History, 1992.*
Halberstam, David, The Breaks of the Game, 1981.
Halberstam, David, The Summer of '49, 1989.
Halberstam, David, October, 1964, 1994.
Hardy, Stephen, How Boston Played: The Growth of Recreation and Community, 1865-1917, *
Henderson, Robert, Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games, 1947.
Helyar, John, Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball, 1994.
Higgs, Robert J., Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature, 1981.
Higgs, Robert J., and Neil Issacs (eds.) The Sporting Spirit: Athletes in Literature and Life, 1977.
Hoberman, John M., The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order, 1986.
Hoberman, John M., Sport and Political Ideology, 1984.
Hoberman, John M., Darwin=s Athlete: How Sports Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race, 1997.
Huizinga, Johan, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture, 1938, 1950.
Humber, William, Diamonds of the North : A Concise History of Baseball in Canada, 1995.
Hulme, Derick , The Political Olympics: Moscow, Afganistan, and the 1980 U.S. Boycott, 1990.
Irvin, Wallace The Politics of International Sport: Games of Power, 1988.
Isenberg, Michael T., John L. Sullivan and His America, 1987.
Inabinett, Mark, Grantland Rice and his Heroes: The Sportswriter as Myth-Maker in the 1920s, 1994.
Jennings, Kenneth M., Balls & Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball, 1990.
Kahn, Roger, A
Flame of Pure Fire : Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20's
, 1999.
Kahn, Roger, The
Boys of Summer, 1978.
Kahn, Roger, The Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants and the Dodgers Ruled the World, 1993.*
Kanin, David, A Political History of the Olympic Games, 1981.
Kelly, John R., Leisure Identities and Interactions, 1983.
Kelly, John R., The Recreation Business, 1985.
Kirsch, George B. The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-1872, 1989.
Klein, Alan M., Sugarball: The American Game, The Domincan Dream, 1991.
Lamb, David W., Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues, 1991.
Lawrence, Paul R., Unsportsmanlike Conduct: The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Business of College Football, 1987.
LeCompte, Mary Lou, Cowgirls of the Rodeo : Pioneer Professional Athletes, 1993.
Lester, Robin, Stagg=s University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-time Football at Chicago, 1995.
Levine, Peter, Albert Spaulding and the Rise of Baseball: the Promise of American Sport, 1984.
Levine, Peter, Ellis Island to Ebbetts Field; Sport and the American Jewish Experience, 1992.
Lowe, Benjamin, David Kanin and Andrew Strenk, Sport and International Relations, 1978.
Lowenfish, Lee and Tony Lupien, The Imperfect Diamond: The Story of Baseball's Reserve System and the Men Who Fought to Change It, 1980.
Lucas, John, The Saga of the Modern Olympic Games, 1980.
Lucas, John and Ronald Smith, The Saga of American Sport, 1978.
Mackay-Smith, Alexander, Man and the Horse, 1984.
Mackay-Smith, Alexander, The Race Horses of America, 1832-1872, 1981.
Macleod, David I., Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920, 1983.
Mandell, Richard D., Sport: A Cultural History, 1984.
Marshall, William, Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 , 1999.
Mead, William Jr., Joe Louis, 1985. *
Messenger, Christian, Sport and the Spirit of American Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner, 1981.
Michener, James A., Sports in America, 1976.
Miller, James Edward, The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore, 1990.
Miller, Marvin, A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball, 1991.
Moore, Joseph Thomas, Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby, 1988.
Mrozek, Donald J., Sport and the American Mentality: The Rise to Respectability, 1983.
Murdock, Eugene, Ban Johnson: Czar of Baseball, 1982.
Noll, Roger, Government and the Sports Business 1984.
Oriard, Michael, Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1869-1980, 1982.
Overmeyer, James, Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles
Peterson, Robert W. Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years, 1990.
Rader, Benjamin, American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators, 1983.
Rader, Benjamin, Baseball: A History of America's Game, 1993.
Rader, Benjamin, In Its Own Image: How Television Has Transformed Sports, 1984.
Reich, Kenneth, Making It Happen: Peter Ueberroth and the 1984 Olympics, 1986.
Rieger, Robert, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation.
Riess, Steven A., City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports, 1989.
Riess, Steve, Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1980.
Riordan, James, Sports Under Communism, 1982.
Roberts, Randy, Jack Dempsy: The Manassa Mauler, 1979.
Roberts, Randy, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of Great White Hopes, 1983.
Roberts, Randy and James Olson, Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945, 1989.
Rogosin, Don, Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues, 1983.
Rosenzwig, Roy, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920, 1983.
Ruck, Rob, Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh, 1986. *
Ruck, Rob, The Tropic of Baseball:Baseball in the Domincan Republic, 1991.
Sammons, Jeffrey, Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society, 1987.
Scully, Gerald W., The Business of Major League Baseball, 1989.
Seymour, Harold, Baseball: The Early Years, 1960.
Seymour, Harold, Baseball: The Golden Age, 1971.
Seymour, Harold, Baseball: The People's Game, 1990.
Shaikin, Bill, Sports and Politics: The Olympics and the Los Angeles Games, 1988.
Shaw, Gary, Meat on the Hoof : The Hidden World of Texas Football, 1972.
Smelser, Marshall, The Life that Ruth Built, 1976.*
Smith, Curt, Voices of the Game, 1987.
Smith Ronald A., Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, 1988.
Somers, Dale, The Rise of Sports in New Orleans, 1850-1900, 1972.*
Paul M. Sommers, (ed.), Diamonds are Forever: The Business of Baseball, 1992.
Spence, Jim, Up Close and Personal: The Inside Story of Network Television Sports, 1988. *
Staudohar, Paul, Sports Industry and Collective Barginning, 1989.
Sullivan, Neil, The Dodgers Move West, 1987.
Sullivan, Neil, The Minors, 1990.
Tygeil, Jules, Baseball's Great Experiment, 1983.
Verbrugge, Martha, Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth Century Boston, 1988.
Voigt, David, American Baseball: From Gentleman's Game to the Commissioner System, 1966.
Voigt, David, American Baseball: From the Commissioner System to Continental Expansion, 1970.
Voigt, David, American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age, 1983.
Waller, Spencer W., et. al, Baseball and the American Legal Mind, 1995.
White, G. Edward, Creating the National Pastime : Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953, 1996
Whiting, Robert, The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samuria Style, 1974.
Whiting, Robert, You Gotta Have Wa, 1989.
Whorton, James C., Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers, 1982.
Will, George, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1989.
Willett, Peter, The Classic Racehorse, 1981.
Yabolonsky, Lewis and Jonathan Brown, The Little League Game: How Kids, Coaches, and Pa Parents Play It, 1979.
Yardley, Jonathan, Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner, 1977.
Zald, M. N., Organizational Change: The Political Economy of the YMCA, 1970.
Zang, David W., Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer, 1995. *
Zimbalist, Andrew, Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime 1992.
Zingg, Paul J., Harry Hooper: An American Baseball Life 1993.
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