Teaching+Project+Booklist

** Winter/Spring Mr. Dunne ** ** Teaching Project Booklist **
 * Sports & Society **

Abdul Jabbar, Kareem. //On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey through the Harlem Renaissance//. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Adelman, Melvin Leonard. //Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70//. University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Adelson, Bruce. //Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South//. University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Armstrong, Ken. //Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity//. Bison Books, 2010.

Atkinson, Jay. //Ice Time: A Tale of Fathers, Sons, and Hometown Heroes//. Crown Publishers, 2001.

Baker, William J. //Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport//. Harvard University Press, 2007.

Balliett, Will, and Thomas Dyja, eds. //The Hard Way: Writing by the Rebels Who Changed Sports//. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999.

Bass, Amy. //Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete//. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Blais, Madeleine. //In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle//. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.

Bloom, John. //To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools//. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Bouton, Jim. //Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues//. New York: World Pub. Co., 1970.

Boyle, Raymond, and Richard Haynes. //Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture//. Pearson Longman, 2000.

Carroll, John M. //Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football//. University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Carroll, John M. //Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement//. University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Cayleff, Susan E. //Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias//. University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Collins, Jim. //The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream//. Da Capo Press, 2005.

Conroy, Pat. //My Losing Season//. Bantam Books, 2003.

Daddario, Gina. //Women’s Sport and Spectacle//. Praeger Publishing, 1998.

Danielson, Michael N. //Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis//. Princeton University Press, 2001.

Davies, Richard O., Richard G. Abram. //Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life//. Ohio State University Press, 2001.

Dickson, Paul. //The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime//. Walker & Company, 2003.

Dyreson, Mark. //Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience//. University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Early, Gerald. //A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports//. Harvard University Press, 2011.

Fainaru, Steve, and Ray Sanchez. //The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream//. Villard, 2001.

Feinstein, John. //The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball//. Back Bay Books, 2001.

Feinstein, John. //A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference//. Back Bay Books, 1999.

Finn, Adharanad. //Running with the Kenyans//. Ballantine, 2012.

Fitzpatrick, Frank. //And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Basketball Game That Changed American Sports//. Bison Books, 2000.

Frost, Mark. //The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf//. Hyperion Press, 2002.

Gillmeister, Heiner. //Tennis: A Cultural History//. New York University Press, 1998.

Goldstein, Warren. //Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball//. Cornell University Press, 1991.

Gorman, Jerry, and Kirk Calhoun. //The Name of the Game: The Business of Sports//. John Willey & Sons, 1994.

Gurock, Jeffrey S. //Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports//. Indiana University Press, 2005.

Guttmann, Allen. //From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports//. Columbia University Press, 1983.

Halberstam, David. //October 1964//. Villard Books, 1994.

Halberstam, David. //Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made//. Broadway Books, 2000.

Halberstam, David. //Summer of ’49//. William Morrow, 1989.

Hillenbrand, Laura. //Seabiscuit: An American Legend//. Ballantine Books, 2002.

Holley, Michael. //Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion//. William Morrow, 2004.- Patrick Lizza

Jenkins, Sally. //The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation//. Doubleday, 2007.

Kahn, Roger. //The Boys of Summer//. Harper & Row, 1972.

Kennedy, Kostya. //56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports//. Sports Illustrated Books, 2011.

Kilma, John. //Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend//. Wiley, 2009.

Koppett, Leonard. //Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter’s View of Sports, Journalism, and Society//. University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Krakauer, John. //Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman//. Doubleday, 2009.

Ladd, Tony, and James A. Mathisen. //Muscular Christianity: Evangelical Protestants and the Development of American Sport//. Baker Book House, 1999.

LaFontaine, Pat. //Companions in Courage: Triumphant Tales of Heroic Athletes//. New York: Time Warner Books, 2001.

Lapchick, Richard. //Smashing Barriers: Race and Sport in the New Millennium//. Madison Books, 2002.

Lecompte, Mary Lou. //Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneer Professional Athletes//. University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Leifer, Eric M. //Making the Majors: The Transformation of Team Sports in America//. Harvard University Press, 1996.

Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson. //Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism//. State University of New York Press, 2000.

Lester, Robin. //Stagg’s University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago//. University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Levine, Peter. //Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience//. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Lewis, Michael. //Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game//. Norton, 2003.

Lipsyte, Robert. //An Accidental Sportswriter//. 2011.

Lowe, Stephen R. //Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf//. Sleeping Bear Press, 2000.

May, Reuben. //Living through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream//. NYU Press, 2007.

McDonagh, Eileen, and Laura Pappano. //Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports//. Oxford University Press, 2009.

McKelvey, G. Richard. //For It’s One, Two, Three, Four Strikes You’re Out at the Owners’ Ball Game: Players Versus Management in Baseball//. McFarland & Company, 2001.

Miller, Patrick B., ed. //The Sporting World of the Modern South//. University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Moss, Richard J. //Golf and the American Country Club//. University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Oriard, Michael. //Brand NFL: Making and Selling America’s Favorite Game//. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Oriard, Michael. //Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle//. The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Oxendine, Joseph B. //American Indian Sports Heritage//. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Paper, Lew. //Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Man Who Made It Happen//. NAL Hardcover, 2009.

Pemberton, Cynthia Lee A., and Donna De Varona. //More Than a Game: One Woman’s Fight for Gender Equity in Sport//. Northeastern University Press, 2002.

Peterson, Robert W. //Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams//. Grammercy Press, 1999.

Peterson, Robert W. //Pigskin: The Early Years of Pro Football//. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Pieroth, Doris Hinson. //Their Day in the Sun: Women of the 1932 Olympics//. University of Washington Press, 1996.

Pope, Steven W. //Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926//. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Powell, Robert Andrew. //We Own This Game: A Season in the Adult World of Youth Football//. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.

Powell, Shaun. //Souled Out? How Blacks Are Winning and Losing in Sports//. Human Kinetics, 2007

Quirk, James P., and Rodney D. Fort. //Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports//. Princeton University Press, 2009.

Quirk, James P., and Rodney D. Fort. //Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports//. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Rampersad, Arnold. //Jackie Robinson: A Biography//. Random House, 1998.

Regelado, Samuel O. //Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger//. University of Illinois Press,1998.

Reiger, John F. //American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation//. Oregon State University Press, 2000.

Riess, Steven A. //Sport in Industrial America 1850-1920//. Harlan Davidson Paperback, 1995.

Riess, Steven A. //Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era//. University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Ribowsky, Mark. //Don’t Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball//. Da Capo Press, 2000.

Rosengren, John. //Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred To Win//. Sourcebooks, 2004.

Ruck, Rob. //Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh//. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

St. John, Warren. //Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania//. Crown, 2004.

Sack, Allen L., et al. //College Athletes for Hire: The Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA’s Amateur Myth//. Praeger Publishing, 1998.

Shapiro, Michael. //The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together//. Doubleday, 2003.

Smith, Lissa, ed. //Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports//. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.

Smith, Ronald A. //Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics//. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Stanton, Tom. //The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark//. St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Struna, Nancy L. //People of Prowess: Sport, Leisure, and Labor in Early Anglo-America//. University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Sullivan, Neil J. //The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York//. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Swidey, Neil. //The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of their Lives//. Public Affairs, 2008.

Telander, Rick. //Heaven Is a Playground//. Bison Books, 2004 (2nd edition).

Tygiel, Jules. //Past Time: Baseball As History//. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Tygiel, Jules. //Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy//. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Vaccaro, Mike. //1941—The Greatest Year in Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War//. Anchor, 2008.

Vaccaro, Mike. //The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912//. Doubleday, 2009.

Watterson, John Sayle. //College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy//. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Wendel, Tim. //Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever//. De Capo Press, 2012.

Wideman, John Edgar. //Hoop Roots//. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.

Yost, Mark. //Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics//. Stanford Economics and Finance, 2009.

Zavoral, Nolan. //A Season on the Mat: Dan Gable and the Pursuit of Perfection//. Simon & Schuster, 2007.