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*see separate files on Basball, Boxing, Football
Historiography/Bibliography
Adelman, L Melvin L., " Academicians and American Athletics,"
Journal of Sport History 10 (Spring 1983): 80-106.
Cahn, Susan K., "Sports talk: oral history and its uses, problems,
and possibilities for sport history, "The Journal of American
History , 81 (Sept. '94) p. 594-609)
Guttmann, Allen, "Commentary: Who's On First?" Journal of American
History 66 (September 1979): 348-54
Hardy, Stephen,"The City and the Rise of American Sport 1820-1920,"
Exercise and Sports Sciences Reviews," 9 (1981): 183-219
Lewis, Robert M., American sport history: a bibliographical guide.I,
American Studies International , 29 (Apr. '91) p. 35-59
[Tripod no]
Rader, Benjamin G., "Modern Sports: In Search of Interpretations,"
Journal of Social History 13 (w. 1979): 307-21.
Riess, Steven, "Sport and the American Dream," Journal of Social
History 14 (December 1980):295-301.
Riess, Steven., "The new sport history.review article., Reviews in
American History, 18 (Sept. '90) p. 311-25. [comprehensive
overview. Discusses many titles cited here]
Zingg, Paul J., "Sport and American society: an assessment of sources
and prospects," Journal of American Culture , 9 (Summer '86)
p. 17-25 [must get on ILL]
Periodicals (devoted to sports)
Journal of sport history (Seattle, WA : North American Society
for Sport History , 1974-) [H Cricket GV571 .J68
Older Studies (see Riess, "New
Sports History," note 1.
General
Adelman, Melvin L. (Melvin Leonard), A sporting time : New York
City and the rise of modern athletics (Urbana : University of
Illinois Press, c1986.) [S McCabe GV584.5.N4 A34 1986
Betts, John R. America's Sporting Heritage (1974)
Guttmann, Allen From Ritual to Record (1978)
Hardy, Stephen, How Boston played : sport, recreation, and
community, 1865-1915 [Boston, MA] : Northeastern
University Press, 1982.) [ H Magill GV584.5.B6 H37 1982]
Hoover, Dwight W. and John T.A. Koumoulides, Sports and society
(Muncie, IN : Dept. of History, Ball State University, c1982)
[S McCabe D1 .C65 ,1, no.8]
Mrozek, Donald J., Sport and American mentality, 1880-1910
(Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1983[B Canaday
GV583 .M76 1983
Owens, Larry., Pure and sound government: laboratories, playing
fields, and gymnasia in the nineteenth-century search for order,
Isis , 76 (June '85) p. 182-94
Paxson, Frederick L. "The Rise of Sport," Journal of Am. Hist
[then MVHR] 4 (1917), 144-68.
Podell, Janet, ed. Sports in America (New York : Wilson, 1986)
ISBN 0824207130 [S McCabe PN4181 .R3 ,57, no.5]
Pope, Steven W., Negotiating the "folk highway" of the nation: sport,
public culture and American identity, 1870-1940., Journal of
Social History , 27 (Winter '93) p. 327-40
Rader, Benjamin, "The Quest for Subcommunities and the Rise of
American Sport," American Quarterly 29 (1977),
355-69.
Riess, Steven A., City games : the evolution of American urban
society and the rise of sports (Urbana : University of Illinois
Press, c1989)B Canaday GV583 .R54 1989] For reviews see:
American Quarterly , 42 (Sept. '90) p. 513-20; Reviews in
American History , 18 (Mar. '90) p. 27-32 ;The American
Political Science Review , 84 (Sept. '90) p. 1013-14 , The
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ,
511 (Sept. '90) p. 209-10; The Journal of Economic History ,
50 (June '90) p. 487-8
Roberts, Randy, , Winning is the only thing : sports in America
since 1945 (Baltimore, Md : Johns Hopkins University Press,
c1989[ B Canaday GV583 .R6 1989 ]. For reviews see: The
Journal of Southern History , 57 (May '91) p. 354-5 ; The
Sewanee Review , 99 (Fall '91) p. 678-88
Spivey., Donald, Sport in America : new historical perspectives
(Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985), CONTENTS Horses and
gentlemen : the cultural significance of gambling among the gentry of
Virginia / T.H. Breen -- Leisure time on the Southern plantation :
the slaves' respite from constant toil, 1810-1860 / David K. Wiggins
-- Quantification and sport : the American Jockey Club, 1866-1867 : a
collective bibliography / Melvin L. Adelman -- Baseball in the small
Ohio community, 1865-1900 / Carl M. Becker and Richard H. Grigsby
--In the ring and out : professional boxing in New York, 1896-1920 /
Steven A. Riess -- Lefties and righties : the Communist[H Magill
GV583 .S6824 1985 ]
Spring, Joel, "Mass Culture and School Sports," History of
Education Quarterly 14 (1974), 483-500.
Sports in Literature
Oriard, Michael, Dreaming of heroes : American sports fiction,
1868-1980 (Chicago : Nelson-Hall, c1982) [McCabe PS3565.R53
D7 1982
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