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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
Here is the first in-depth account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. In the late nineteenth century …
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 …
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 …
When Running Made History
Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian’s insight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 …
Blacks At the Net
This is an unprecedented look at the rich history of blacks on U. S. tennis courts. While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little …