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  • Wartime Basketball

    The Emergence of a National Sport during World War II

    by Douglas Stark ...
    Wartime Basketball tells the story of basketball’s survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game’s growth after the war. Prior to World War II, basketball—professional and collegiate—was largely a regional game, with different styles played throughout the country. Among its many impacts on home-front life, the war forced pro and amateur leagues to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Race and Resistance in Boston

    A Contested Sports History

    Edited by Robert Cvornyek, Douglas Stark ...
    Named a 2025Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBoston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in Boston over the years as they advocated for racial integration and transformed their sports into modes of racial pride, resistance, and cultural ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Boston’s Black Athletes

    Identity, Performance, and Activism

    by Steven Apostolov, Lane Demas, Lorenz J. Finison, Donna L. Halper, Leslie Heaphy, Edward H. Jones, Stephanie Liscio, Susan A. Michalczyk, Eileen Narcotta-Welp, Tracey Owens Patton, Andrew Smith, Lynne Tolman, Robert E. Weir ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    Sport has long been a stage where identity is contested, visibility is earned, and social change takes root.In Boston, the Black athletic body has historically challenged the city's self image as a beacon of liberalism. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets this contested history through the lives and experiences of African American athletes who used their talent ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Interpreting Sports at Museums and Historic Sites

    Edited by Kathryn Leann Harris ...
    Series series Interpreting History
    Sports are intertwined with American society. Since the earliest forms of native games to today’s extreme competitions, sports have left an indelible mark on the fabric of American culture. Today, sports are a multibillion-dollar industry. Social media provides a never ceasing outlet for community interaction surrounding sporting events and discussions. At their core, sports are an opportunity for ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The James Naismith Reader

    Basketball in His Own Words

    by James Naismith ...
    James Naismith invented the game of basketball as a physical education instructor at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. That December of 1891, his task was to create a game to occupy a rowdy class during the winter months. Almost instantly popular, the game spread across the country and was played in fifteen countries by the end of the century. And yet basketball ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Breaking Barriers

    A History of Integration in Professional Basketball

    by Douglas Stark ...
    Today, it is nearly impossible to talk about the best basketball players in America without acknowledging the accomplishments of incredibly talented black athletes like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant. A little more than a century ago, however, the game was completely dominated by white players playing on segregated courts and teams.In Breaking Barriers: A History of Integration in ... Read more

    $37.29 USD

  • When Basketball Was Jewish

    Voices of Those Who Played the Game

    by Douglas Stark ...
    In the 2015–16 NBA season, the Jewish presence in the league was largely confined to Adam Silver, the commissioner; David Blatt, the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers; and Omri Casspi, a player for the Sacramento Kings. Basketball, however, was once referred to as a Jewish sport. Shortly after the game was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, it spread throughout the country and became ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Willie O'Ree

    The story of the first black player in the NHL

    by Nicole Mortillaro ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    Willie O'Ree quietly made NHL history at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958, when he became the first black player to take to the ice. In the dressing room before the game, his Boston Bruins teammates told him not to worry. If any one of the Montreal players said anything to him, they'd have his back.There was a round of applause when O'Ree stepped onto the ice, and newspapers ran the story. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ice in Their Veins

    Women's Relentless Pursuit of the Puck

    by Ian Kennedy, Sami Jo Small ...
    Women have been playing hockey since the beginning—but their fights took place off the ice.Hockey wasn’t meant to include girls. Women attracted to the speed, finesse and physicality of the game had to overcome condescending attitudes, lack of resources, legal barriers and even sexual assault in their quest for legitimacy and ice time. For more than 150 years, their femininity was questioned, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Sports Revolution

    How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

    by Frank Andre Guridy ...
    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD