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Sport in American History

13.10.2024

Review of Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads | Sport in American History

Muchnick, Irvin. Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning. Toronto: ECW Books, 2023. Pp. 180. $26.95 CAD paperback. Reviewed by Łukasz Muniowski When thinking about the causes of football-related deaths, the first thing that comes to mind is concussions, which continue to be a subject of conversation. However, Irvin Muchnick’s…

Sport in American History

27.10.2024

Review of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson | Sport in American History

Brown, Ashley. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 616. $29.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Bill Pruden Before there was the Williams sisters, there was Althea Gibson. In the late 1950s, her efforts cracked open the formerly-closed door to the historically all-white, upper-class world of tennis to the…

Sport in American History

10.11.2024

Review of The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America | Sport in American History

MacCambridge, Michael. The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2023. Pp. 496. $26.49 Hardcover and ebook. Reviewed by Łukasz Muniowski It is important to point out at the beginning that The Big Time is not marketed as an academic book. In fact, it does not aspire or pretend…

Sport in American History

24.11.2024

Review of Baseball’s Endangered Species: The Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It | Sport in American History

Lowenfish, Lee. Baseball’s Endangered Species: The Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Pp. 344. $34.95 Hardcover and ebook. Reviewed by Łukasz Muniowski Rarely has a man been more suited to produce a book on the history of a given issue than is Lee Lowenfish fit to write the…

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