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  • Sports through the Lens

    Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs

    Series series Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    2025 Anthology Award, North American Society for Sport HistoryThe stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, photographers have shaped how we perceive sports. Sports through the Lens collects essays by twenty-five historians that consider what it means to capture and revisit a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Baseball Beyond Our Borders

    An International Pastime

    Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Baltimore Sports

    Stories from Charm City

    Edited by Daniel A. Nathan ...
    Series series Sport, Culture, and Society
    To read a sample chapter, visit www.uapress.com.Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. It’s a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City chronicles the many ways that sports are an integral ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The Meaning Of Sports

    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

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  • A People’s History of Sports in the United States

    250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

    by David Zirin ...
    Series series New Press People's History
    From the author Robert Lipsyte calls "the best young sportswriter in America," a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop cultureIn this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining ... Read more

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  • Upon Further Review

    The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

    by Mike Pesca ...
    From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism

    Walter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mind—one pair of feet—at a time.With Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, Walter LaFeber has written a biography, a social history, and a far-ranging economic critique. From basketball prodigy to international phenomenon to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Big Time

    How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

    **A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture.“Indispensable history.” —Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call**Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in The Big Time, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Season of Saturdays

    A History of College Football in 14 Games

    From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni ... Read more

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  • Canada's Other Game

    Basketball from Naismith to Nash

    by Brian I. Daly ...
    Basketball, the only major world sport undeniably invented by a Canadian, has ironically failed to win Canadians’ hearts more than a century after its creation. James Naismith’s brainchild is a popular recreational pastime in his homeland, but players with bigger dreams had better take their talents south of the border. Canadian hoops has languished in the seemingly eternal shadow of hockey, with ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artistic Impressions

    Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport

    In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire ... Read more

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