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Book reviews

1997; Routledge; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09523369708713977

1743-9035

Donald G. Kyle, Jonathan Steinberg, David Q. Voigt, Edward J. Sheehy, David J. Maurer, Scott A.G.M. Crawford, John Nauright, Scott A.G.M. Crawford, Dwight Zakus, Suzanne Wise, H. F. Moorhouse, Jørn Hansen,

American Sports and Literature

Audrey Briers, Sporting Success in Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1994). Pp.48, illustrations, further reading. $8.95 (paper). ISBN 1–85444–055–1. Roger Morgan, Tennis: The Development of the European Ball Game. Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Edward (Oxford: Ronaldson Publications, 1995). Pp.xi + 259, £45. ISBN 0–9501251–7‐1. Christy Mathewson, Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball From the Inside (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp.322. $12.00. ISBN 0–8032–8212–5); Harry Samuel ‘Steamboat’ Johnson, Standing the Gaff: The Life and Hard Times of a Minor League Umpire (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp.194. $6.95. ISBN 0–8032–7579‐X); Larry R. Gerlach, The Men in Blue: Conversations With Umpires (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp.310. $11.95. ISBN 0–8032–7045–3. Robin Lester, Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big‐Time Football at Chicago (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995). Pp.301, b&w photographs, appendices. ISBN 0–252–02128–2. Murray Sperber, Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football (New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1993). Pp.xxii + 634. $25. ISBN 0–8050–1874–3. Larry K. Menna, Sports in North America: A Documentary History ‐‐ Volume 2, Origins of Modern Sports, 1820–1840 (Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press). Pp.xvii + 405. Selected bibliography, 145 documents, and indexes. $75 (cloth) subscription/$95 non‐subscription. ISBN 0–87569–136–6. Richard Cashman, Paradise of Sport: The Rise of Organised Sport in Australia. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995). Illustrations, bibliography, index.. A$24.95. John McI. Davidson, International Rugby Union — A Compendium of Scotland's Matches. (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994). Pp. xii + 295, 12 appendices, 15 photographs, no index. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7486–6186–7. John Wilson, Playing by the Rules: Sport, Society, and the State (Detroit: Wayne State University Press. May, 1994). Pp.427. US$39.95. ISBN 0–8143–2107–0. Richard, Cox The Internet as a Resource for the Sports Historian. (Frodsham, UK: Sports History Publishing in association with the British Society of Sports History, 1995). Pp. vi + 62, no price given. ISBN 1–898010–05–6. Robert C. Post, High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing 1950–1990, (Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins Press, 1994). Pp xxiii + 416. £30. ISBN 0–8018–4654–4. Leif Yttergren: Competition is Life. The organisation and sportification of the sports in Stockholm 1860–1898 (1996).