Walk of ages : Edward Payson Weston's extraordinary 1909 trek across America by Reisler, Jim, 1958-

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A brief history of American sports by Gorn, Elliott J., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Part 1: America Becomes A Sporting Nation: -- Colonists at play: -- Virgin land -- English sports -- Virginia ethic -- New England way -- Middle colonies -- Sports and the new nation -- Saints and their bodies: sport through 1860: -- Adams family -- Victorian culture and the attack on traditional sports -- Beginnings of modern American sports -- Muscular Christians and brawny Brahmins -- Vigorous, manly, out-of-door sports: the Gilded Age: -- Healthful and invigorating sports -- Sport and society -- Rise of mass sports: boxing and baseball -- Elite sports -- Strenuous life -- Part 2: Sport And Its Discontents: -- Sports with a mission: football and basketball: -- Walter Camp and the bureaucratization of the strenuous life -- Football, alumni, and the control of the university -- Progressives, play, and basketball -- World War I: great unifier -- Play, business, and space: sports and the public sphere: -- Home teams -- Sports heroes and mass culture -- Gender and sport -- Racial integration -- Money, television, drugs, and the win: dilemmas of modern sports: -- Amateur ideals and sporting reality -- Twentieth-century amateurism -- Impact of television -- Historical roots of the drug problem in sports -- Sports for a new century: -- Explosion of sports -- Steroid era -- Money and sport -- Level playing field -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.…”

Playing tough : the world of sports and politics by Abrams, Roger I., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Sports and politics -- Early baseball and the urban political machine -- The Nazi Olympic triumph -- The war of the world : Joe Louis v. …”
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Playing tough : the world of sports and politics by Abrams, Roger I., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Sports and politics -- Early baseball and the urban political machine -- The Nazi Olympic triumph -- The war of the world : Joe Louis v. …”
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Predicting presidential elections and other things by Fair, Ray C.

Table of Contents: “…Marathon times -- 9. Aging and baseball -- 10. Predicting college football games -- 11. …”
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Global sports : cultures, markets and organizations by Jozsa, Frank P., Jr., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Chapter 2. Baseball in Dominican Republic, Japan, and Venezuela; Chapter 3. …”
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Playing with the big boys : basketball, American imperialism, and subaltern discourse in the Philippines by Antolihao, Lou

Table of Contents: “…Spheroid of Influence -- 2. From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic -- 3. The Hollywoodization of Hoops -- 4. …”
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Contemporary athletics compendium. Volume 3

Table of Contents: “…: Interaction Between Team Identification & Pre-Game Mood -- Why College Athletes Play Through Pain During Competition -- A Description & Comparison of Duties & Responsibilities of NCAA Division II Head Baseball & Football Coaches -- Identity Foreclosure? …”
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Historical dictionary of the 1940s by Ryan, James Gilbert

Table of Contents: “…B-29 SUPERFORTRESS -- BABY BOOM -- BALL, LUCILLE DESIREE -- BALLPOINT PENS -- BARKLEY, ALBEN WILLIAM -- BARUCH, BERNARD MANNES -- BASEBALL -- BASEBALL'S NEGRO LEAGUES -- BASKETBALL (COLLEGE) -- BASKETBALL (PROFESSIONAL) -- BEARD, CHARLES A. -- BELL, JAMES THOMAS "COOL PAPA" -- BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT -- BENSON, EZRA TAFT -- BENTLEY, ELIZABETH -- BERLIN BLOCKADE -- BETHUNE, MARY McLEOD -- BIDDLE, FRANCIS BEVERLY -- BIG BANG THEORY -- BIKINI -- BILBO, THEODORE GILMORE -- BIRTH CONTROL -- BLACK ELK, NICHOLAS -- BLACK, HUGO LAFAYETTE -- BLIMPS AND AIRSHIPS.…”
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Got here as soon as I could : discovering the way life should be by Smiley, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…-- National waffle shortage -- Moms don't have favorites -- If otters read books about us -- The brothers' separation -- Firstborn cuts path -- Loss of WII cruel and unusual punishment -- Etchings on the family table -- Price gouging gumballs -- Picture frames as time capsules -- First fish, then dog -- We won a shark -- Meet Sparky -- When a dog trains his boy -- To the littlest boy in striped shirt -- Sam's club -- Things I'll forget -- Lindell learning to read -- Diary of a snow day -- Lindiddy -- A letter to my future daughters-in-law -- The fairness of world and coin tosses -- Letting go of the bike -- A sad, backward version of the hungry caterpillar -- I ruined Halloween -- Living with all boys -- Managing children, gardens -- It will be quiet all too soon -- Star Wars is tearing us apart -- Yellow beans -- Ads set parenting bar too high -- About a boy in a kayak -- To Ford as he begins high school -- Baseball -- Baseball season in Maine -- First day of little league -- Father-son moment at third base -- Where have all the baseball kids gone? …”
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A companion to American sport history

Table of Contents: “…Major Team Sports -- Baseball Before 1920 / Leslie Heaphy -- Baseball Since 1920 / Rebecca T. …”
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All-Stars and Movie Stars : Sports in Film and History. by Briley, Ron

Table of Contents: “…. : Filling in the Gaps and Recovering the Narratives of America's Forgotten Heroes; More than a Game: Challenging White Supremacy through Narrative Performances; Before the Year All Hell Broke Loose: Black Baseball and the Coming of Jackie Robinson; Keeping the Legacy of Black Baseball Alive; Notes; Works Cited; Basketball's Great White Hope and Ronald Reagan's America: Hoosiers; Notes.…”
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Sport and Migration : Borders, Boundaries and Crossings.

Table of Contents: “…: The 8216;Coubertobin tax in a context of financial crisis -- 3 Moving with the bat and the ball: The migration of Japanese baseball labour, 19122009 -- 4 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Community: Migrating professional footballers in and out of Hungary -- Part II Bridgeheads in migration and sport -- 5 Preliminary observations on globalisation and the migration of sport labour -- 6 Sport labour migration as a global value chain The Dominican case -- 7 8216;Net-gains: Informal recruiting, Canadian players and British professional ice hockey -- 8 8216;Have board, will travel: Global physical youth cultures and trans-national mobility1 -- Part III Experiences of migration and sport -- 9 Migrants, mercenaries and overstayers: Talent migration in Pacific Island rugby -- 10 Blade runners: Canadian migrants and European ice hockey -- 11 Female football migration: Motivational factors for early migratory processes -- Part IV Identities in migration and sport -- 12 Globetrotters in local contexts: Basketball migrants, fans and local identities -- 13 Diaspora and global sports migration: A case study in the English and New Zealand contexts -- 14 Tries for the nation?…”
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Remarkable women of Rhode Island by Grzyb, Frank L., 1946-, DeSimone, Russell J., 1944-

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Pedestrianism : When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport. by Algeo, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…13 Hippodroming or The Suspicion Was Very General 14 Bicycles and Baseball or Too Free Use of Stimulants; Epilogue: The Last Pedestrians or Now About Everybody Rides; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Sources; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Back Cover…”
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The sawdust trail : Billy Sunday in his own words by Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935

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Female gladiators : gender, law, and contact sport in America by Fields, Sarah K., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The History of American Women in Sport, Society, and Law -- 2. Baseball -- 3. Football -- 4. Basketball -- 5. Soccer -- 6. …”
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Ivy League athletes : profiles in excellence at America's most competitive schools by Maiorana, Sal, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Elanie Baskind, Harvard women's soccer -- Ona McConnell, Yale field hockey -- Lucky Mkosana, Dartmouth men's soccer -- Alex Thomas, Yale football -- Sheila Dixon, Brown women's basketball -- Keith Wright, Harvard men's basketball -- Andy Iles, Cornell men's hockey -- Greg Zebrack, Penn baseball -- Kyra Caldwell, Columbia track -- Melanie Baskind, Harvard women's lacrosse.…”
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Ivy League athletes : profiles in excellence at America's most competitive schools by Maiorana, Sal, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Elanie Baskind, Harvard women's soccer -- Ona McConnell, Yale field hockey -- Lucky Mkosana, Dartmouth men's soccer -- Alex Thomas, Yale football -- Sheila Dixon, Brown women's basketball -- Keith Wright, Harvard men's basketball -- Andy Iles, Cornell men's hockey -- Greg Zebrack, Penn baseball -- Kyra Caldwell, Columbia track -- Melanie Baskind, Harvard women's lacrosse.…”
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Cleveland in World War I. by Thomas, Dale

Table of Contents: “…Economic Boom -- 7. Baseball, Work, or Fight -- 8. Blizzard and Influenza -- 9. …”
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A Level Playing Field : African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports by Early, Gerald Lyn

Table of Contents: “…When worlds collide : Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Harry Truman, and the Korean War ; Curt Flood, gratitude, and the image of baseball ; Donovan McNabb, Rush Limbaugh, and the making of the Black quarterback -- Heroism and the Republic of Sports. …”
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Fairy tale review;the brown issue #7. by Kate Bernheimer

Table of Contents: “…P Are Married -- Ars Poetica -- The Sugar the Wind Brings -- Four Poems -- The Idiot's Ghost -- Glitterbug -- Alice Through the Wonderland Looking-Glass -- Spirit Medium -- RBI Baseball -- Paper Dolls -- Innocence -- Habitat -- Devil Born -- Contributor Notes…”
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Sawdusted : Notes from a Post-Boom Mill.

Table of Contents: “…Cover13; -- Contents -- Museums -- Authorization -- A Shot of Whiskey -- The Blanched One -- Routine -- Scruff Scuffle -- Yuletide Blur -- The Cat -- The Stacker -- The Innocent -- Bob Tale -- The Rookie -- Stig -- The Rug -- Lightning -- Outside the Fence -- Belated Author8217;s Note -- Come and Get It -- Sharpening -- The Foreman -- The Tree Lover -- Stoics -- The Tattoo Man -- The Rat -- The Transient -- First Mill -- Grunts -- Baseball -- The Sawyer -- Once More to the Mill.…”
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Ballparking : practical math for impractical sports questions by Santos, Aaron

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For the love of the game : amateur sport in small-town Ontario, 1838-1895 by Bouchier, Nancy Barbara, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Tory elites to middle-class men: changing political, economic, and social landscapes -- The 24th of May is the Queen's birthday: civil holidays, locality, and sport -- From holidays to every day: the amateur ascendancy in local sport -- Cricket and local culture: from centre stage to the margins -- Baseball, boosters, and the amateur not-for-profit apprach to community sport -- Lacrosse: idealized middle-class sport for youth -- A respectable man's world: amateurism and local culture.…”
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The politics and culture of modern sports by Anderson, Sheldon

Table of Contents: “…British sports and national identity in the nineteenth-century Europe -- Sports and construction of American national identity, and the export of baseball abroad -- Sports in the service of fascism and communism in the interwar period -- Sports and the cold war -- Communist sport rivalries and the role of sport in the German question -- Sports and the reconstruction of postwar western Europe and Japan -- Sports, decolonization, and nation building -- Globalization and competing sporting identities -- The politics and economics of hosting international sporting events.…”
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We average unbeautiful watchers : fan narratives and the reading of American sports by Cohan, Noah

Table of Contents: “…So we fabricate : baseball and the unfriendly confines of history -- It was my fate, my destiny, my end, to be a fan : football, mental illness, and the autobiographical novel -- Race in the basketball memoir : fan identity and the eros of "a Black man's game" -- It's been a problem with me and women : failed masculinities in depictions of sports fans on film -- Reimagined communities : web-mediated fandom and new narrative possibilities for sport.…”
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From Jack Johnson to Lebron James : sports, media, and the color line

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Democracy on the field: the Black press takes on White baseball / Chris Lamb and Glen L. Bleske -- A nod from destiny: how sportswriters for White and African American newspapers covered Kenny Washington's entry into the National Football league / Ronald Bishop -- Jackie Robinson and the American mind: journalistic perceptions of the reintegration of baseball / William Simons -- "This is it!" …”
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In the field : life and work in cultural anthropology by Gmelch, George, Gmelch, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…The fieldwork tradition -- First fieldwork : Irish travellers -- Politics and fieldwork : nomads in English cities -- Applying anthropology in an Alaskan national park -- Studying subsistence in Sitka -- On the move : work and mobility in Newfoundland -- Native anthropology : studying the culture of baseball -- Falling into fieldwork in Japan -- Photography and film in Ireland and Alaska -- Taking students to the field: Barbados -- When the field is a city : Hobart, Tasmania -- In the shadow of KIlimanjaro: students in Tanzania -- Fieldwork from campus -- The changing nature of fieldwork.…”
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Lost in the lights : sports, dreams, and life by Hemphill, Paul, 1936-2009

Table of Contents: “…The dawning. White bread and baseball ; Big night, big city ; "I gotta let the kid go" ; Marty Malloy, 2b ; The kid and the third baseman -- The striving. …”
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Psychosocial stress in immigrants and in members of minority groups as a factor of terrorist behavior

Table of Contents: “…"You Just 'Gotta' Love Baseball." The Ecology of Stress of Immigration and the Consequences for Security; Chapter 2. …”
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Zig-zag-and-swirl : Alfred W. Lawson's quest for greatness by Henry, Lyell D., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Childhood Days; 2. The Magic Man of Baseball; 3. Born Again; Part Two: Fanning the Aeronautical Blaze; 4. …”
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Making an American workforce : the Rockefellers and the legacy of Ludlow

Table of Contents: “…Field Days, YMCA, and Baseball; 6. A Tale of Two Employee Representation Plans in the Steel Industry; 7. …”
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Faculty mentor's wisdom : conceptualizing, writing, and defending the dissertation

Table of Contents: “…Identifying and Focusing a Dissertation Topic: Baseball as a Cognitive Heuristic.…”
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The Righteous Remnant : the House of David. by Fogarty, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition: Sex in Michigan, Beards in Baseball, the New Jerusalem in the New World; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The Prophetic Tradition; Chapter Two: The American Prophets; Chapter Three: The Shiloh at Benton Harbor; Chapter Four: Chased Like a Fox; Chapter Five: The Social Compact; Appendix A: Sixty Propositions; Appendix B: Colony Membership List; Appendix C: Biographical Information; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Dance works : stories of creative collaboration by Orr, Allison

Table of Contents: “…Dances for Places and Their People: Baseball Fields, City Pools, and More -- Appendix 1: The Steps: Forklift's Practices for Collaborative Performance -- Appendix 2: Major Works -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover…”
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Videofashion men. Volume 6, Episode 1, Call of the wild

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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner. by Rapoport, Ron

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; A Note to Readers; Ring Lardner Tells His Sad, Sad Story to the World; 1 Getting Started; 2 Baseball; 3 Ring Goes to War; 4 Football; 5 Politics; 6 Boxing; 7 The Noble Experiment; 8 The America's Cup and Other Sports; 9 Family Life; 10 On Journalism; 11 People, Places, and Pieces of Ring's Mind; 12 Parodies and Reviews; 13 Buried Treasure and Night Letters.…”
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Into the woods : the battle for Tasmania's forests by Krien, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Praise for Into the Woods; Copyright; INTO THE WOODS; Contents; Map; Prologue; RATBAGS; The Crossing; Miranda and Nish; The Pink Palace; Camp Flozza; Splitting Hairs; Monkey-Wrenching; Consequences; LOGGERS; At the Pub; Maydena; The Sawmill; Burning Off; Jobs; Forestry; THE COMPANY; Gunns; The Gunns 20; Musical Chairs; The Greens; The Bacon Years; Banana Republic; GROUNDSWELL; The Forester; The Blue-Carrot State; The Shareholders; THE MILL; The Proposal; The Panel; Chile; The Tottering Giant; Baseball-Bat Diplomacy; Epilogue; Afterword to the Second Edition.…”
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Forecasting in financial and sports gambling markets : adaptive drift modeling by Mallios, William S. (William Steve), 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Market Perspectives: Through a Glass Darkly -- Opacity and Present-Day Dynamics -- Adaptive Modeling Concepts in Dynamic Markets -- Studies in Japanese Candlestick Charts -- Pseudo-Candlesticks for Major League Baseball -- Single-Equation Adaptive Drift Modeling -- Single-Equation Modeling: Sports Gambling Markets -- Simultaneous Financial Time Series -- Modeling Cointegrated Time Series Associated with NBA and NFL Games -- Categorical Forecasting -- Financial/Mathematical Illiteracy and Adolescent Problem Gambling -- The Influenza Futures Markets -- References -- Index.…”
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