Sport Spring 2021
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1962
Degrees of Difficulty
Baseball and America in the Time of JFK David Krell
How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace Georgia Cervin
May 2021 408pp 27 photos, index 9780803290877 £27.99/ $34.95 HB
Sport and Society June 2021 304pp 9780252085765 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252043772 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. Weaving a history of this tumultuous season within the social fabric of the era, David Krell delivers a fascina�ng book as epochal as its subject.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
This unique history of women’s gymnas�cs examines how the high-stakes diploma�c rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for abuse. Cervin also charts how the sport changed as gymnas�cs dominance shi�ed from East to West. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Fighting Visibility Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC Jennifer McClearen
Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics Carl Rommel
Studies in Sports Media March 2021 256pp 9780252085727 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252043734 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
July 2021 312pp 9781477323175 £44.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The poli�cs of football as a space for ordinary Egyp�ans and state forces to nego�ate a masculine Egyp�an chauvinism. Through interviews with fans, players, journalists, and coaches, Carl Rommel inves�gates the increasing a�en�on paid to football during the Mubarak era.
Reveals how the Ul�mate Figh�ng Championship’s half-hearted efforts at representa�on generate profit and cultural cachet while hiding exploita�on women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
From Football to Soccer
Mexican American Fastpitch
The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States Brian D. Bunk
Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport Ben Chappell
Sport and Society July 2021 312pp 9780252085871 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252043888 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
August 2021 264pp 9781503628595 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503609969 £74.00/ $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Across North America, na�ve peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer’s emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer a�er World War I.
In Mexican American communi�es in the central United States, the modern tradi�on of playing fastpitch so�ball has been passed from genera�on to genera�on. This mul�-sited ethnography situates the sport within a history marked by migra�on, marginaliza�on, solidarity, and struggle.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
2
On the Sidelines
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster Guy Harrison Foreword by Julie DiCaro
Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur & Gerard Akindes July 2021 256pp 9780821424513 £24.99/ $32.95 PB
Sports, Media, and Society August 2021 186pp Index 9781496226464 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496220271 £82.00/ $99.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspec�ves, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shi�ing experiences of African athletes, fans, communi�es, and postcolonial states.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
An interdisciplinary examina�on of the current state of gender rela�ons and representa�on within the sports media industry. Shows how sportscas�ng’s dependence on gendered neoliberalism broadly places the onus on women for their own success despite systemic sexism and racism.
Tennis
The Evolution of a Cricket Fan
A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals Greg Ruth
A Shapeshifting Journey Samir Chopra
Sport and Society July 2021 368pp 9780252085888 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252043895 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
Spor�ng June 2021 248pp 9781439911976 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9781439911969 £83.00/ $104.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis’s evolu�on into the game we watch today. A fascina�ng history of the economics and poli�cs that made tennis a decisive force in the crea�on of modern-day sports entertainment.
Samir Chopra is an immigrant, a “voluntary exile,” who discovers he can tell the story of his life through cricket, a game that has long been an influence—really, an obsession—for him. Excludes Asia Pacific
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
The Masters
The Myth of the Amateur
A Hole-by-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic David Sowell
A History of College Athletic Scholarships Ronald A. Smith
March 2021 306pp 18 illus., 2 appendixes, index 9781496224972 £16.99/ $21.95 NIP
May 2021 376pp 9781477322864 £26.99/ $35.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Third edi�on, adding more history and upda�ng each hole with addi�onal stories of greatness and tales of woe for a new genera�on of golfers led by Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, and Patrick Reed, as well as from an older guard represented by Bubba Watson, Adam Sco�, and Sergio García.
Ronald A. Smith tells a story filled with paradoxes and hypocrisies that plays out on the field, in mee�ng rooms, and in courtrooms—and that ul�mately reveals that any insistence on amateurism in college sports is invalid, because these athletes have always been paid, one way or another. 3