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  • Red Barber

    The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend

    by Judith R. Hiltner, James R. Walker ...
    2023 SABR Baseball Research AwardA Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation BookFinalist for the 2023 Seymour MedalFinalist for the 2022 CASEY AwardBorn and raised in rural Mississippi and the even balmier climes of central Florida, Red Barber, at the age of thirty-two, became one of New York City’s most influential citizens as the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he arrived in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lakota Belief and Ritual

    by James R. Walker ...
    "The real value of Lakota Belief and Ritual is that it provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis, as well as insightful biographical information on the man who contributed more than any other individual to our understanding of early Oglala ritual and belief."—Plains Anthropologist ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Crack of the Bat

    A History of Baseball on the Radio

    by James R. Walker ...
    The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The medium gave fans around the country aural access to the first All-Star Game, Lou Gehrig’s farewell ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

    Exploring the Fandemonium

    by Kelly Berg, Jeff Boone, Kathy Brady, David Fingerhut, Walter Gantz, Frederick Grieve, Allison Harthcock, John Heppen, Craig Hyatt, Mark Julien, Jennifer Marmo, Jessi McCabe, Sarah Porri, Greg G. Armfield, Nicholas D. Bowman, Phillip J. Chidester, Matthew J. Gill, Tom E. Isaacson, Ricard W. Jensen, Jason R. Lanter, Pamela Gayle Nadorff, Julie A. Partridge, John S. W. Spinda, Brian S. Titsworth, Amanda J. Visek, Daniel L. Wann, Ryan K. Zapalac, John A. Fortunato, William M. Foster, John P. McGuire, James R. Walker, Katherine L. Lavelle, Roger C. Aden, David E. Beard, Andrew C. Billings, John Harris, Lawrence A. Wenner ...
    Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry

    Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media

    by Alan B. Albarran, Robert Bellamy, Alexander Cohen, Tony R. DeMars, Douglas A. Ferguson, Robert Gross, Jennifer M. McClure, Jennifer Meadows, Stephen Phipps, Mary Jackson Pitts, Suzy Smith, Joan Van Tassel, James R. Walker, Maria Williams-Hawkins, Lily Zeng ...
    Series series Studies in New Media
    The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry: Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. Consumer behaviors and consumer expectations are being shaped by new media technologies. They now expect information on-demand and on-the-go as well as at their finger ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    Red Barber

    The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend

    by Judith R. Hiltner, James R. Walker ...
    Narrated by Phil Thron ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 34 min

    Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even balmier climes of central Florida, Red Barber, at the age of thirty-two, became one of New York City's most influential citizens as the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But behind all the base hits, balls, and strikes lies a compelling story that dramatizes the shifting expectations and roles of a public figure—the sports ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • America's Game

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    It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly ... Read more

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  • Rickey

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    “Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” – Sports IllustratedFrom the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game ... Read more

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    Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

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