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The Fastest Kid on the Block
The legendary voice of the New York Knicks, Giants, and Jets writes also of his years as a Syracuse football star and a track Olympian who was denied his chance to compete in the …
Legends Never Die
With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball …
Great Women in the Sport of Kings
This text considers the phenomenon of female jockeys. It takes a look at their lives and offers portraits of how they overcame personal and professional obstacles. The introduction …
Muscle and Manliness
Axel Bundgaard has produced a meaningful work on the important but little-told history of interschool athletics, exploring the introduction and nature of sport in the controlled …
The War of the Wheels
Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to …
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901
An account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. It assesses the impact of urbanization and migration, and …
Tarnished Rings
In late 1998 and the early months of 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was an organisation in crisis. Revelations of a slush fund employed by Salt Lake City officials …
Joining the Clubs
How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the …
Race across America
On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African …
Anything For a T-Shirt
A history of the New York City marathon profiles the contributions of the late Fred Lebow to the history of the sport and explains how he transformed--through clever marketing--the …
Invisible Seasons
In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used …
Catching Dreams
Told simply, this is an honest and entertaining view of the black baseball diamond through the catcher's mask. It is Robinson's first-hand account of his 25 year career in Negro …