Author: Suggs, Welch Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Place on the Team is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. The federal law guaranteeing women's rights in education, Title IX opened gymnasiums and playing fields to milli...
Author: Caple, Jim Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Every Boston fan knows that the only thing better than watching sports is arguing about them - picking the best, the worst and who will come out on top. And no city tears its sports teams apart like w...
Description: 100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit ...
Author: Sansevere, Bob Publisher: Sourcebooks Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit ...
Author: Mehno, John Publisher: Sourcebooks Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit ...
Author: Mona, Dave Publisher: MVP Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: If it happened in Minnesota sports in the last forty years, Dave Mona was there. Working the sports beat for print and radio, covering the big stories and the ones others missed, rubbing shoulders wit...
Author: Mona, Dave Publisher: MVP Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If it happened in Minnesota sports in the last forty years, Dave Mona was there. Working the sports beat for print and radio, covering the big stories and the ones others missed, rubbing shoulders wi...
Author: Bush, Francis Marion Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rich heritage of Virginia horse racing traces its roots back to the colonial days of the late seventeenth century. Horse racing began as single-day events held at county fairs, family farms, and h...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found ...
Author: Laroche, Stephen / Waldman, Jon Publisher: ECW Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Days gone by are relived with some of the trading card industry's most well-known experts in this nostalgic look back at one of the most popular hobbies in history. Covering baseball, basketball, foot...
Author: David, Paulo Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The human rights of the child have been inscribed in the UN's 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, and ratified by 191 countries. Paulo David's work makes it clear, however, that too often comp...
Author: Runstedtler, Theresa Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In his day, Jack Johnson-born in Texas, the son of former slaves-was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challeng...
Author: Kastner, Dr. Bernie Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Out of My League is a psychotherapist's humorous retrospective account of events that took place on the fields of different ethnic softball leagues in south Brooklyn during one season in the year 1985...
Author: Burgos, Adrian , Jr. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this bench...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With contributions by Prosper Godonoo, Urla Hill, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Jack Lule, Murry Nelson, David C. Ogden, Robert W. Reising, and Joel Nathan Rosen Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race,...
Author: Coghlan, John F. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The author has used his experience on the Sports Council, as well as his many years in the field, to record the development of sport in Britain and the direct relationship between sport and politics.
Author: Zeigler,Earle F. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new text/source book about sport and physical education in the Middle Ages fills a gap in English-language history between ancient and modern times in Western civilization.
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith This anthology explores the...
Author: McComb, David G. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A wide ranging overview of the history of modern sports including material on sports organizations, the commercialisation of sports and the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Author: Knight, Jonathan Publisher: Clerisy Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Summer of Shadows is an intertwining narrative that tells the story of the 1954 Cleveland Indians (which would etch itself in history as one of the greatest baseball teams in MLB history) and the infa...
Author: Schiller, Kay / Young, Chris Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The 1972 Munich Olympics-remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team-were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Re...
Author: Aron, Jaime Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 100 great sports debates for each cityâfrom who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fansâthe series that's sweeping the nation, and is alre...
Author: Ortiz, Jose de Jesus Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 100 great sports debates for each cityâfrom who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fansâthe series that's sweeping the nation, and is alre...
Author: Bass, Alan Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Alan Bass does an incredible job of going through the era and describing these vital events that changed the game." -EDWARD FRASER, THE HOCKEY NEWS "To the degree that expansion has changed the...
Author: Sterritt, Mike Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book pays tribute to twenty two worthy yet lesser known professional boxers of the last hundred years. Some became champions, and some never were crowned as such. All have their own stories and s...
Author: North, Michael Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mike North's true loves are boxing and photography. But, a Missourian in Los Angeles, he has only managed to live his dreams through being an amateur boxing official and a wedding photographer. Then h...
Author: Bacchia, John Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The incredible, never-before-told story of Augie Donatelli-a man fellow umpires consider a legend. Coalmines ... Bombers ... and Baseball ... Emmy Award-winning sportswriter/producer John Bacchia shar...
Author: Stewart, Bob Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new book reviews and critiques the development of elite and community sport policy with an emphasis on contemporary sport and recent history but with an evolutionary perspective looking back as f...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found ...
Author: Elworth, Jim Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Plattsmouth, Nebraska lies at the confluence of the Platte and Missouri rivers. The people of Plattsmouth are proud of their small town's rich history, of their strength and determination as a communi...
Author: Piascik, Andy Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947, four black players joined the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first professional football pla...
Author: Russell, Kidd Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Whether you are sitting at the ballpark on a lazy summer afternoon or counting down the days until the start of spring training, Hot Stove Trivia will always keep you in the game with more than two hu...
Author: Runstedtler, Theresa Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his day, Jack Johnson-born in Texas, the son of former slaves-was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challeng...
Author: Greenlee, Craig T. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The legacy of the Marshall players who perished transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on campus. The evening of November 14, 1970 was damp and c...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays s...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays s...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This exciting work is a fitting tribute to the scholarship and lasting accomplishments of Professor Tony Mangan. Pioneer, trailblazer and mentor, Professor Mangan is a scholar of the highest repute in...
Author: Adams, Timothy E. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 1919 World Series contains some of the most interesting occurances in the history of major league baseball. One team was giving maximum effort to win this world series while members of the other t...
Author: Ridpath, B. David Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1997, Dave Ridpath walked onto the campus of Marshall University as a sports-loving athletic administrator with a career on the rise. Less than five years later, Ridpath's quest to reform one of th...
Description: Team 7-Eleven is the extraordinary story of how two Olympic speed skaters, Jim Ochowicz and Eric Heiden, pulled together a small group of amateur cyclists and turned them into one of the greatest cycl...
