Project MUSE®: Journal of Sport History - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Sport History.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 37 (2010) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Sport HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Sport History2155-84500094-1700Latest articles in Journal of Sport History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Cutting the Carbs: The Rise and Expulsion of Detroit's Holley Carburetor Soccer Club 1924–1930
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983833
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In 1927, Arthur Sale, a Detroit Free Press sportswriter, noted the city's exciting soccer growth. He attributed this in part to the Holley Carburetor Soccer Club, which had finished runner-up in the National Challenge "Open" Cup, the winner of which was considered the nation's top soccer team. He lauded the Holley's play as "brilliant" and noted that it had done more to popularize the game than any Detroit soccer team to date.1This was not idle praise. During the 1920s, US soccer experienced heady and free-spending ways. While much of this capital existed in the East Coast's American Soccer League (ASL), Midwest cities such as Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and St. Louis also spent generously on star players and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallCutting the Carbs: The Rise and Expulsion of Detroit's Holley Carburetor Soccer Club 1924–19302026-02-24text/htmlen-USCutting the Carbs: The Rise and Expulsion of Detroit's Holley Carburetor Soccer Club 1924–19302026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®2008142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24The Littoral Life of Carlotta Stewart Lai: Waterwoman in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983832
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Carlotta Stewart Lai—a prominent name in the rich and growing historiography of Black Hawai'i—has yet to be seen for her connections to the histories of beach culture and aquatic recreation. She has attracted attention among scholars and the public in recent decades for a variety of reasons, mostly revolving around her social and professional accomplishments on land. As the daughter of an internationally known lawyer and civil rights advocate and part of an educated and upwardly mobile middle-class family, Lai was among few African Americans who had the means to make the transoceanic voyage to Hawai'i from the continental United States at the turn of the twentieth century. (In her case, the journey was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallThe Littoral Life of Carlotta Stewart Lai: Waterwoman in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i2026-02-24text/htmlen-USThe Littoral Life of Carlotta Stewart Lai: Waterwoman in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®1095812026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24"I Love Horses … I Don't Like Bookies": Mass Leisure, State Finance, and the Politics of New York Thoroughbred Racing in Depression and War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983834
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"I tell you that the dirtiest, most dilapidated school is better than the most beautiful racetrack," New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia declared to a group of school children in Brooklyn. "I love horses," he explained, but "I don't like bookies and gamblers. Every penny they get comes from people who can't afford to feed their own children."1 In November 1939, as New York voters prepared to cast their ballots on a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize parimutuel betting on horseracing, the mayor thundered against the plan. He insisted, "The Amendment is not progress but retrogression…. Gambling is socially undesirable and it is bad economics."2The mayor, ever feisty, made his hatred of gambling a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmall"I Love Horses … I Don't Like Bookies": Mass Leisure, State Finance, and the Politics of New York Thoroughbred Racing in Depression and War2026-02-24text/htmlen-US"I Love Horses … I Don't Like Bookies": Mass Leisure, State Finance, and the Politics of New York Thoroughbred Racing in Depression and War2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®1384602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Sportfishing and the "Aryanization" of Recreational Space During the Third Reich
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983835
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On September 17, 1933, fishing clubs across Germany participated in the inaugural "German Day of Angling," an event intended to promote the pastime and demonstrate its contribution to the renewal of Germany after the Nazis had seized power in January 1933. The newly formed Nazi fishing organization, the Reichsverband Deutscher Sportangler (Reich Association of German Sport Anglers; RDS, later RDSF) organized the day and called on German anglers to see to the cultivation and tending (Hege und Pflege) of any hitherto unproductive waters that could be utilized to contribute to feeding the Fatherland.1 In the organization's monthly magazine, various fishing clubs reported festivities in which local Nazi officials and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallSportfishing and the "Aryanization" of Recreational Space During the Third Reich2026-02-24text/htmlen-USSportfishing and the "Aryanization" of Recreational Space During the Third Reich2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®1111022026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Jimmie McDaniel, Don Budge, and the 1940 Exhibition Tennis Match in Harlem
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983836
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"The defeat of Jimmie McDaniels [sic] by Don Budge in a tennis exhibition last week," wrote noted sportswriter Art Carter of the Baltimore Afro-American, "should cause no alarm among the net fans who have been hailing Jimmie as the peer of many of his white contemporaries."1 The match Carter referred to was a much-ballyhooed exhibition tennis contest on July 29, 1940, between Jimmie McDaniel, an outstanding Black amateur tennis star from Xavier University of Louisiana by way of Los Angeles, California, against the great white professional player Don Budge at the famous Cosmopolitan Tennis Club in Harlem (originally the Colonial Tennis Club). On the one hand, it was like other sporting exhibitions over the years in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallJimmie McDaniel, Don Budge, and the 1940 Exhibition Tennis Match in Harlem2026-02-24text/htmlen-USJimmie McDaniel, Don Budge, and the 1940 Exhibition Tennis Match in Harlem2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®1525682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24"Stop Playing Cricket with Pakistan": Protesting the 1971 Pakistan Cricket Tour of England
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983837
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Sport has been a platform for political protest, from suffragette Emily Davison throwing herself beneath the king's horse at the 1913 Derby to quarterback Colin Kaepernick's kneeling in the contemporary National Football League.1 Scholarship on the intersection of sport, politics, and ideology has expanded; scholars have studied subjects as diverse as South African activists opposing apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s to the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.2 The struggle against apartheid and the Vietnam War, particularly, signaled the emergence of a new transnational political culture in the postwar era,3 encompassing the international suffrage movement, Black nationalism, and women's movements, often
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmall"Stop Playing Cricket with Pakistan": Protesting the 1971 Pakistan Cricket Tour of England2026-02-24text/htmlen-US"Stop Playing Cricket with Pakistan": Protesting the 1971 Pakistan Cricket Tour of England2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®1106952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Cardboard Fantasies: How Baseball Cards Contributed to the Creation of Fantasy Sport
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983838
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From their humble beginnings as structural support for late-nineteenth-century tobacco products, baseball cards now boast a privileged position in an annual $12.62 billion sports card industry.1 Along the way, they have become a distinctive part of US sports history, sparking sentimentality, felicity, and community, often simultaneously. From the childlike joy of opening a new pack to the sophisticated pleasure of watching a collection appreciate over time, baseball cards enable fans to maintain their own unique connections to the game and the players that they love, even during the offseason. They are, in other words, much more than mere accessories for kids' bicycle spokes. Several excellent books examining the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallCardboard Fantasies: How Baseball Cards Contributed to the Creation of Fantasy Sport2026-02-24text/htmlen-USCardboard Fantasies: How Baseball Cards Contributed to the Creation of Fantasy Sport2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®875872026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Editors' Note
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983839
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At the 2024 North American Society for Sport History annual conference in Denver, Colorado, historian Gary Osmond presented a fascinating, creative paper on the sensory turn, which examines the role human senses have played in the past. More specifically, Osmond discussed smell as it has related to the sporting past. Many people in the audience found Osmond's remarks stimulating, which got me thinking: the Journal of Sport History could do a forum on this subject. There were many possibilities, so many sporting smells to consider, from fresh-cut grass to chlorine to sweat-drenched shin guards, among many others. I talked with Osmond about the idea, and he was enthusiastic about it. Working together, we invited
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallEditors' Note2026-02-24text/htmlen-USEditors' Note2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®30612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24The "Sensory Turn," Smell, and Sport History
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983840
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An emerging "sensory turn" in history and heritage studies emphasizes the role of the senses and emotions in understanding the past.1 While sport historians have engaged to some degree with this sensory turn, particularly with emotions, there is little sport history research focusing on sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch (and other senses). This article considers this absence, focusing on smell. My argument, following the line of historian Mark M. Smith and anthropologist David Howes, is that delving into the senses offers more than an opportunity to evoke the past; it also offers possibilities for interpreting the past in new and interesting ways.2The sensory turn is evident in a spate of scholarly work
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallThe "Sensory Turn," Smell, and Sport History2026-02-24text/htmlen-USThe "Sensory Turn," Smell, and Sport History2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®436772026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24In the Van: Smell, Gender, and Women's Intercollegiate Tennis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983841
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maybe smell is one of my sharper senses, maybe it's sharper than sight…. [Smell] to me is as noticeable as the ear which hears the turns of speech.For twenty-six years, I coached the women's tennis team at Skidmore College, a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. During fall and springs seasons, we routinely traveled all over the northeast, from Portland, Maine, to Philadelphia, from Buffalo to Boston. During the unpredictable month of March, we enjoyed spring breaks in such balmy locales as Florida, California, and Hawaii. Sunshine replaced snow; warm ocean breezes replaced biting Alberta clippers. And because we were a successful program, we routinely qualified for the NCAA Division III National
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallIn the Van: Smell, Gender, and Women's Intercollegiate Tennis2026-02-24text/htmlen-USIn the Van: Smell, Gender, and Women's Intercollegiate Tennis2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®326882026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Wake Up and Smell the Ammonia: A Gendered History of Smelling Salts in Sport
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983842
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Anders handed me a deteriorating plastic bag with a glass jar nestled inside. I could feel a faint slime on the outside of the bag that, combined with my tired fingers from a prior workout, made it difficult to release the knotted handles. This was an inauspicious sign for two reasons; not only was I already fatigued and perhaps not ready to lift heavy weights again, but the residue on my fingers suggested that the smelling salts inside were eating away at the plastic. What then would this substance to do to my nose? My lungs? My brain?Inside the glass jar was a plastic pharmacy bottle of smelling salts, rather like a Russian nesting doll full of stimulants. The ominous effect of this arrangement was enhanced by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallWake Up and Smell the Ammonia: A Gendered History of Smelling Salts in Sport2026-02-24text/htmlen-USWake Up and Smell the Ammonia: A Gendered History of Smelling Salts in Sport2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®442902026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Sport: Its Pentimento
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983843
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To respond to the charge "reflect on Gary Osmond's ideas and apply them to one specific smell and its relationship to sport," I could entangle histories of Title IX, settler colonialism, or the marketing of a particular sport odor from my personal history: perhaps the smell of field hockey and lacrosse locker rooms; the seasonal fragrances of grass; bodies' collective odor on the hot bus ride home, especially when we adolescents were all menstruating at the same time; the aroma of leather wrappings of my sticks; later, as a mother of athletes: scents of menthol-camphor of Biofreeze and Tiger Balm, vomit upon artificial turf, hair gel before a crucial match, or the particular stench of Nike running and basketball
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallSport: Its Pentimento2026-02-24text/htmlen-USSport: Its Pentimento2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®428592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24The Cost of Winning (2020) by Maurice Holden and Rob Ford (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983844
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The HBO documentary series The Cost of Winning follows the football program at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore—the oldest operating Black Catholic educational institution in the United States—and its players' struggles to obtain university athletic scholarships. The series makers accompanied the team during the 2019 season, as they traveled across the country to compete with other nationally ranked high school programs and on prominent media outlets such as ESPN. The 2019 season was unique for St. Frances because it was their first season competing as an independent football program. The other schools in the Maryland Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) decided not to compete against St. Frances that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallThe Cost of Winning (2020) by Maurice Holden and Rob Ford (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USThe Cost of Winning (2020) by Maurice Holden and Rob Ford (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®90372026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Court of Gold (2025) by Jake Rogal (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983845
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Big Game, Small World. That's what sportswriter Alexander Wolff titled his 2002 book about his global tour in search of hoops enlightenment. Wolff found basketball infiltrating cultures far beyond the United States. In the intervening decades, the game has gotten bigger, and the world has gotten smaller. Where once the US strode across the basketball universe like a colossus, now the game flourishes at a high level on every continent besides Antarctica. At last count, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 125 players from forty nations beyond the US, including the crème de la crème such as NBA Most Valuable Players Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.The Olympic Games reflect
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallCourt of Gold (2025) by Jake Rogal (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USCourt of Gold (2025) by Jake Rogal (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®104432026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration by Don E. Albrecht (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983846
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Are student-athletes of color better off now than they were prior to the United States Supreme Court 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education? Don E. Albrecht, a longtime faculty member at Texas A&M University and recruiter for the school's football program, posits this question in his most recent book: Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration. Using thirty years' worth of interviews and research, Albrecht makes the case that many things have changed—and not all for the better. He does this by using the unofficial religion of the Lone Star State (high school football) to examine systemic inequality in the United States and how discriminatory policies have adapted since Brown.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallBlinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration by Don E. Albrecht (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USBlinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration by Don E. Albrecht (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®78692026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Beyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States by Brian D. Bunk (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983847
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Beyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States is a masterful addition to the historiography of early American soccer. In a series of fifteen essays—plus an introduction and epilogue—Brian D. Bunk traces the sporting history and development of soccer communities in small cities and towns throughout the United States. Bunk argues that while each place developed independently, when taken collectively, these cases represent an aspirational image of the United States: a nation where diverse people come together around the ideas of "companionship, fair play, and equal opportunity" (3). Between 1880 and 1920, American society underwent rapid changes due to industrialization, immigration, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallBeyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States by Brian D. Bunk (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USBeyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States by Brian D. Bunk (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®84472026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24The Year Without a World Series by Robert C. Cottrell (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983848
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Hitting a baseball is often regarded as the most difficult task in sport. Writing baseball history is a similarly difficult task. The skill involved in each challenge is considerable, yet it is the romanticized narratives of baseball—especially how they are so often mythologized in relation to the sport's larger meanings for American culture—that add a particularly daunting veneer to each. The difficulty is itself part of the mythology in that the very fact of rare success in the face of such daunting prospects is meant to be a metaphor for the triumphant American spirit. Yet failure and setbacks are often found along the way. Robert C. Cottrell, emeritus professor of history and American studies at California
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallThe Year Without a World Series by Robert C. Cottrell (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USThe Year Without a World Series by Robert C. Cottrell (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®81932026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Winters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance ed. by Russell Field (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983849
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The Olympic Winter Games (OWG) are often presented as glorious achievements and pristine landscapes of sport—pure as the driven snow. Winters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance challenges these myths. Playing on Shakespeare's opening line in the tragedy Richard III, the title of this new publication signals the games have another storyline. Contributors to the collection, edited by historian Russell Field, unveil how unrest and danger lurk beneath sunny skies at the world's winter sports mega-event.The book focuses on the history of protest against Winter Games organized under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banner. Rumbles of opposition echo around the world
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallWinters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance ed. by Russell Field (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USWinters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance ed. by Russell Field (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®85472026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport by Gerald R. Gems (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983850
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Neurasthenia, a mysterious nervous disorder first identified in the United States in 1869, produced symptoms ranging from lassitude to outright hysteria. Psychosomatic in nature, it was thought to deplete the body's finite nervous energy, leaving sufferers constantly fatigued and mentally listless. Against this backdrop of widespread psychological strain, organized sport began to take hold across American society, offering a crucial outlet from the pressures of a rapidly modernizing world.Gerald R. Gems's Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport sets out to explore this largely overlooked historical connection. By bringing together mental health, gender dynamics, and the rise of organized sport after the Civil
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallMental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport by Gerald R. Gems (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USMental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport by Gerald R. Gems (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®78972026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport by Dionne Koller (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983851
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In this fresh, accessible, meticulously researched work, Dionne Koller, a professor of law and the director of the Center for Sport and Law at the University of Baltimore, has tackled with aplomb the Sisyphean task of wrestling a sprawling, constantly morphing, socially fraught body of sport-relevant jurisprudence and policy positions into a coherent treatise. In fact, she has provided scholars, jurists, students, and citizens concerned about the current role of sport in the United States with a volume that can serve in graduate and higher-level undergraduate classrooms or even sit in a federal judge's bag of summer reading—the work is that informative and suited to broad appreciation. For regular readers of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallMore Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport by Dionne Koller (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USMore Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport by Dionne Koller (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®87522026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Frontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century by Nicolas Martin-Breteau (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983852
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Nicolas Martin-Breteau, a French historian, provides an insightful monograph regarding African American sport history from the 1890s to the present. Focusing on Washington, DC, and the city's ample African American elite population, Martin-Breteau outlines Black political and intellectual thought and its evolution since the late nineteenth century regarding African American sport participation in an area that had been a frontier zone between Southern and Northern racial politics. Originally published in French in 2020, this version of the book took three years to translate. It reads clearly and gracefully thanks to the work of translator Lucy Garnier. Martin-Breteau utilizes Black newspapers and other African
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallFrontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century by Nicolas Martin-Breteau (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USFrontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century by Nicolas Martin-Breteau (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®77822026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Selling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America by Jeffrey Orens (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983853
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Baseball historian Jeffrey Orens delivers a compelling narrative that documents the importance of George Wright and Albert Spalding to the growth of baseball as players and entrepreneurs during the late nineteenth century. Using baseball publications from the time, local newspapers, and the writings of Wright and Spalding, Orens shows how the pair was essential in transforming the sport from an amateur game that pitted local nines against each other to professional leagues that had an international economic dimension.Baseball fans will love this book. Through relating the stories of the careers of Spalding, Wright, and Wright's older brother Harry, who factors into the narrative as much as the two men mentioned in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallSelling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America by Jeffrey Orens (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USSelling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America by Jeffrey Orens (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®78942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24Muertes, Funerales, Biografías Póstumas y Deportes en la Argentina (Siglos XX y XXI): La Invención del Panteón Deportivo ed. by Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky and César R. Torres (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983854
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Obituaries have been used since the nineteenth century to reflect on the achievements of sportsmen, sportswomen, and their place in the sporting pantheon. In a refreshing departure, this book edited by Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky and César R. Torres goes further by analyzing the deaths of seven Argentine sportsmen through media coverage of not just their careers but also the funerals and rituals associated with them and how the narratives about their deaths reflected Argentine society at the time and during the succeeding years.Acknowledging the narrowness of sports and gender represented in the book (they are all men), Scharagrodsky and Torres argue that the case studies of Jorge Newbery (1875–1914), Justo Suárez
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallMuertes, Funerales, Biografías Póstumas y Deportes en la Argentina (Siglos XX y XXI): La Invención del Panteón Deportivo ed. by Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky and César R. Torres (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USMuertes, Funerales, Biografías Póstumas y Deportes en la Argentina (Siglos XX y XXI): La Invención del Panteón Deportivo ed. by Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky and César R. Torres (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®86082026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983855
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In The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, journalist Michael Waters offers a compelling and accessible account of how sex testing in sport was born out of fascist ideologies. Based on extensive archival research and supported by footnotes, Waters traces how a "small cadre of officials, including a Nazi sports doctor and a number of Nazi sympathizers, first came up with the idea of medical exams to determine sex" in women's sport (283). The book centers on the life of Czechoslovakian athlete Zdeněk Koubek, who was assigned female at birth and competed in women's sports during the 1930s, before later undergoing gender affirming care to live as a man. Although Koubek and some of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/474/image/coversmallThe Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters (review)2026-02-24text/htmlen-USThe Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters (review)2026-02-242026TWOProject MUSE®67922026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-24