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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sarah k fields”
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  • Sports through the Lens

    Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs

    Edited by Maureen M. Smith, Daniel A. Nathan, Sarah K. Fields ...
    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

  • Never Ask "Why"

    Football Players' Fight for Freedom in the NFL

    by Ed Garvey ...
    When pro football players formed a union to stand up against the NFL for their own interests, they chose lawyer Ed Garvey as their Executive Director. The NFL Players Association (NFLPA), would take on the NFL over player contracts, collective bargaining agreements, and antitrust suits. It lobbied for players’ free agency, contract rights, and impartial arbitration of disciplinary disputes. Garvey ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sport and the Law

    Historical and Cultural Intersections

    Edited by Samuel O. Regalado, Sarah K. Fields ...
    Series series Sport, culture, and society
    This new collection examines not only how athletes looked to the nation’s judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases trans¬formed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Heywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball’s antitrust status; the Danny ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

    by Frank Andre Guridy ...
    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, From James Naismith to LeBron James

    by Doug Merlino ...
    The history of basketball contains all the drama inherent in America's long struggle with racial intolerance and quest for equality. In ten focused chapters that highlight characters both famous (Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird) and more obscure (John McLendon, Earl Lloyd, Holcombe Rucker), this book explores how what's happened on the basketball court has mirrored race ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sports in American Life

    A History

    by Richard O. Davies ...
    The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history.Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • 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

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  • More Than Just a Game

    Sports in American Life Since 1945

    by Kathryn Jay ...
    Series series Columbia Histories of Modern American Life
    More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Goal That United Canada, 72 Amazing Stories by Canadians from Coast to Coast

    by Sean Mitton, Jim Prime ...
    A moment in time. It’s rare for a person to remember exactly where he or she was at a single moment in time, some four decades past. It’s rarer still for an entire nation to hold a collective memory of such a moment. This kind of hardwired retention usually results from group trauma — the shock of assassination, large scale tragedy, or natural disaster. Occasionally, the event that galvanizes a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The System

    The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

    by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian ...
    A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearNCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Meaning Of Sports

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    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

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus