SPORTS
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SPORTS / WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY
How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace
GEORGIA CERVIN How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women’s gymnastics “Georgia Cervin's Degrees of Difficulty is an enthralling analysis of elite women's gymnastics, from a scholar's and insider's view. Through carefully applied lenses of gender, race, power, and politics, Cervin exposes the historical underbelly of cheating, bribery, abuse, and political manipulation in one of the world's most popular Olympic Sports.” —KEVIN B. WAMSLEY, coauthor of Sport in Canada: A History, fourth edition JUNE 2021
Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women’s gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. Yet, a surprising spirit of international collaboration arose to decide the social values and image of femininity demonstrated by the sport. Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West.
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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04377-2 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08576-5 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05267-5 A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Jaime Schultz
Sweeping and revelatory, Degrees of Difficulty tells a story of international friction, unexpected cooperation, and the legacy of abuse and betrayal created by the winat-all-cost attitudes of the Cold War.
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GEORGIA CERVIN is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.
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FIGHTING VISIBILITY
Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC
JENNIFER MCCLEAREN Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women’s sports “A scathing critique of the exploitation that defines the relationship of the UFC to its women fighters, Fighting Visibility fills a hole in the study of sports. Never has this subject been explored with the depth and clarity that we have here. A necessary and groundbreaking read. It makes the point with crystal clarity: visibility and equity are not the same thing.” —DAVE ZIRIN, sports editor, The Nation Mixed-martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures, and then she investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference—whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual—to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC’s half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others.
MARCH 2021 232 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 22 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 TABLES
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Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand—and the ways women paid the price for success.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05263-7 A volume in the series Studies in Sports Media, edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan
JENNIFER MCCLEAREN is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
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FROM FOOTBALL TO SOCCER
The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States
BRIAN D. BUNK Rediscovering soccer’s long history in the U.S. “This excellent and timely history on the origins of football in North America fills an important gap. As soccer grows in popularity today, Brian Bunk shows that it has been part of the sporting scene for many centuries. This book is especially welcome for its thorough discussion of Native American football's long history, and the alltoo-often understated role of women in the early development of the game on the continent. This book is essential reading for historians of sport, and an absorbing read for the casual soccer/football fan." —STEFAN SZYMANSKI, coauthor of Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany, Spain, and France Win, and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
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Across North America, native 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 after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States—and the beautiful game’s transformation into a truly international sport.
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A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history. BRIAN D. BUNK is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War and coeditor of Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne.
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TENNIS
A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals
GREG RUTH Analyzing how tennis turned pro “This book is for tennis pros, serious amateurs, hackers, lovers of the game, and anyone interested in sport history. Greg Ruth shows us how tennis evolved from England’s royal court to L.A.’s public courts to the U.S. Open’s billionaire courts. Featuring big personalities and terrific storytelling, Tennis shows us how and why the game evolved over the years. This is excellent sport history.” —ELLIOTT J. GORN, coauthor of A Brief History of American Sports, Second Edition The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis—the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis’s evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women’s tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment.
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Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.
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GREG RUTH is an independent scholar.
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NFL FOOTBALL
A History of America’s New National Pastime NFL Centennial Edition
RICHARD C. CREPEAU The evolution of an American passion Praise for the previous edition: “[Crepeau] has brought together from a great many sources the information necessary to anyone who wants to understand the origins and the workings of the powerful and profitable entertainment vehicle the NFL has become.” —BILL LITTLEFIELD, NPR’s Only a Game A multibillion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today’s NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society.
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This updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league’s centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard C. Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today:
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• Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue, including analysis of the 2020 collective bargaining agreement
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• The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality
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• Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health
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• Paul Tagliabue’s role in covering up information on concussions • The Super Bowl’s evolution into a national holiday Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story. RICHARD C. CREPEAU is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Florida and former president of the North American Society for Sports History. He is the author of Baseball: America’s Diamond Mind, 1919–1941.
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SPORTS / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES / WOMEN’S STUDIES
PASSING THE BATON
Black Women Track Stars and American Identity
CAT M. ARIAIL How African American women athletes tested a nation’s image of itself "Ariail pinpoints how important the women of track and field were to changing opinions in both white and black communities about the accomplishments of women of color. But she also powerfully argues that this story does not end with victory. Rather, she reminds us how much work gender did (and does) to undergird racism." —KATHERINE C. MOONEY, author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures—both white and Black—to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America’s dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship.
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A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.
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CAT M. ARIAIL is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.
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SPORTS / WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
THE SPORT MARRIAGE
Women Who Make It Work
STEVEN M. ORTIZ Survival and sacrifice with the ultimate team players “In this keenly observed, empathic, and insightful work, Steven Ortiz recounts the inner experience of wives married to both a man and his sports career. Ortiz observes the precise order in which wives sit on the bench in the stadium, how they respond to affair-seeking groupies, to more senior sports wives, news of a sudden cross-country trade, an intrusive mother-in-law, a lasting head-injury. He explores the complex art of managing a backstage role. This is the best book I know of on the sport marriage.” —ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
AUGUST
In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. These women, who are usually portrayed in unflattering and/or unrealistic terms, face enormous challenges in their attempts to establish and maintain functional marital and family lives while the husband routinely puts his career first.
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Ortiz defines the traditional sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, illustrating how it encourages women to contribute to their own subordination through adherence to an unwritten rulebook and a repertoire of self-management strategies. He explains how they make invaluable contributions to their husbands’ careers while adjusting to public life and trying to maintain family privacy, managing power and control issues, and coping with pervasive groupies, overinvolved mothers, a culture of infidelity, and husbands who prioritize team loyalty. He gives these historically silent women a voice, offering readers perceptive and sensitive insight into what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports.
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STEVEN M. ORTIZ is an associate professor of sociology at Oregon State University.
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BEFORE MARCH MADNESS
The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball
KURT EDWARD KEMPER Idealism, power, and the campaign to monetize college hoops “A well-researched and provocative inquiry into the contentious early development of college basketball. Kemper lucidly exposes the numerous conflicts over fundamental principles and specific policies that repeatedly erupted before the NCAA seized complete control of the sport in 1957.” —CHARLES MARTIN, author of Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890–1980 Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges, and regional state universities, and the competing interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own.
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Kurt Edward Kemper tells the dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century—and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Taking readers inside the competing factions, he details why historically black colleges and regional schools came to embrace commercialization. As he shows, the NCAA’s strategy of co-opting its opponents gave each group just enough to play along—while the victory of the big-time athletics model handed the organization the power to seize control of college sports.
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An innovative history of an overlooked era, Before March Madness looks at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.
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KURT EDWARD KEMPER is a professor of history and the director of the General Beadle Honors Program at Dakota State University. He is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era.
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THE GOLD IN THE RINGS
The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games
STEPHEN R. WENN and ROBERT K. BARNEY The fascinating financial history of selling the Olympics “Wenn and Barney have produced another foundational text in Olympic history, this one exploring the deepening ties between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the generation of commercial revenue. Utilizing exclusive access to previously undisclosed IOC documents, along with interviews with many high-ranking Olympic officials, the authors not only shed new light on IOC presidents such as Brundage, Killanin, Samaranch, and Rogge, but also a diverse and colorful supporting cast whose importance is only now revealed.” —KEVIN WITHERSPOON, author of Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games
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Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colossus powered by corporate sponsorship and professional participation. Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney offer the inside story of this transformation by examining the far-sighted leadership and decision-making acumen of four International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidents: Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Jacques Rogge. Blending biography with historical storytelling, the authors explore the evolution of Olympic commercialism from Brundage’s uneasy acceptance of television rights fees through the revenue generation strategies that followed the Salt Lake City bid scandal to the present day. Throughout, Wenn and Barney draw on their decades of studying Olympic history to dissect the personalities, conflicts, and controversies behind the Games’ embrace of the business of spectacle.
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Entertaining and expert, The Gold in the Rings maps the Olympics’ course from paragon of purity to billion-dollar profits. STEPHEN R. WENN is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. ROBERT K. BARNEY is a professor emeritus and founding director emeritus of the International Center for Olympic Studies at the School of Kinesiology at Western University. They are the authors of Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal.
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KANSAS CITY VS. OAKLAND The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era
MATTHEW C. EHRLICH Chiefs-Raiders, Royals-A’s, and the wildest time in American sports “An entertaining tale of two cities with big league dreams and ambitions. Balancing civic identity and cohesion against unsustainable expenses and diverted funds is a circle most American cities have failed to square. While there are no ‘solutions’ to these challenges, Ehrlich analyzes the responses of Oakland and Kansas City in a balanced and informed way, offering lessons for other cities—and there are many of them—in similar positions.” —JERALD PODAIR, author of City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles A driving ambition linked Oakland and Kansas City in the 1960s. Each city sought the national attention and civic glory that came with being home to professional sports teams. Their successful campaigns to lure pro franchises ignited mutual rivalries in football and baseball that thrilled hometown fans. But even Super Bowl victories and World Series triumphs proved to be no defense against urban problems in the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s.
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Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the fascinating history of these iconic sports towns. From early American Football League battles to Oakland’s deft poaching of baseball’s Kansas City Athletics, the cities emerged as fierce opponents from Day One. Ehrlich weaves a saga of athletic stars and folk heroes like Len Dawson, Al Davis, George Brett, and Reggie Jackson with a chronicle of two cities forced to confront the wrenching racial turmoil, labor conflict, and economic crises that arise when soaring aspirations collide with harsh realities.
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Colorful and thought-provoking, Kansas City vs. Oakland breaks down who won and who lost when big-time sports came to town.
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MATTHEW C. EHRLICH is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest.
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