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  • Sports through the Lens

    Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs

    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Baseball Beyond Our Borders

    An International Pastime

    Modifié par George Gmelch, Daniel A. Nathan ...
    Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. ... En savoir plus

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  • Baltimore Sports

    Stories from Charm City

    Modifié par Daniel A. Nathan ...
    Collections series Sport, Culture, and Society
    To read a sample chapter, visit www.uapress.com.Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. It’s a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City chronicles the many ways that sports are an integral ... En savoir plus

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  • The Meaning Of Sports

    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • People's History of Sports in the United States

    250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

    par David Zirin ...
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  • Upon Further Review

    The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

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  • The Big Time

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