sla: book review archive

BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVE

7 May 2020: Kastner, Race across America (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
5 May 2020: Love & Burns, Corked (reviewed by Dave Buchanan)
4 May 2020: Gish Jen, The Resisters (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
26 March 2020: Bachynski, No Game for Boys to Play (reviewed by Pardeep Toor)
11 February 2020: Naze, Reclaiming 42 (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
10 February 2020: Bensinger, Red Card (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
9 February 2020: O'Mahony, Photography and Sport (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
8 February 2020: Schulian, The Great American Sports Page (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
14 January 2020: Schrag & Hammonds, To Imogene (reviewed by Bruce Pratt)
13 January 2020: Marantz, Citizen Akoy (reviewed by Kyle Belanger)
12 January 2020: Nowlin, Tom Yawkey (reviewed by Derek Catsam)
11 January 2020: Ehrlich, Kansas City vs. Oakland (reviewed by Richard Black)
9 December 2019: Davies, The Story of Welsh Boxing (reviewed by Daniel Taradash)
5 December 2019: Cohan, We Average Unbeautiful Watchers (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
25 November 2019: Steinberg, Elegy for Ebbets (reviewed by Alan Zaremba)
6 October 2019: Macht, They Played the Game (reviewed by Alan Zaremba)
20 September 2019: White, Blood, Sweat, & Tears (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
15 September 2019: Block, Pastime Lost (reviewed by Philip Wedge)
30 August 2019: Harris, Poker & Popular Culture (reviewed by Jeremy Larance)
16 August 2019: Rutter, Invisible Ball of Dreams (reviewed by Michele Schiavone)
8 August 2019: Phillips, Scouting and Scoring (reviewed by Tim Morris)
1 June 2019: Overman, Sports Crazy (reviewed by Angie Abdou)
31 May 2019: Morton, Jai Alai (reviewed by Richard V. McGehee)
1 May 2019: Newman, Here's the Pitch (reviewed by Dick Crepeau)
26 March 2019: Bishop, Pinstripe Nation (reviewed by Philip Wedge)
18 February 2019: Ferkovich, Motor City Champs (reviewed by Mark Noe)
12 February 2019: Ryczek, Baseball on the Brink (reviewed by Mark Noe)
11 February 2019: Billings & Black, Mascot Nation (reviewed by Leslie Heaphy)
7 February 2019: Smith, Cocaine + Surfing (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
6 February 2019: Johnson, The Black Bruins (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
30 January 2019: Martin, The Detroit Wolverines (reviewed by Mark Noe)
28 January 2019: Gilden, Collision of Wills (reviewed by Bruce Pratt)
8 January 2019: Rifenburg, The Embodied Playbook (reviewed by Lorin Shellenberger)
6 November 2018: Alexander, The Half-Game Pennant of 1908 (reviewed by Mark Noe)
31 October 2018: Robinson, When Running Made History (reviewed by William Steele)
22 October 2018: Abdou, Home Ice (reviewed by Shelly Sanders)
5 October 2018: Gietscher, ed., Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles (reviewed by Mark D. Howell)
4 October 2018: Turpin, First Taste of Freedom (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
2 October 2018: Nelson, Learning to Miss (reviewed by Joseph Stanton)
26 September 2018: McDole with Morris, The Dancing Bear (reviewed by Bruce Pratt)
21 September 2018: Solberg, Creating the Big Ten (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
31 August 2018: Isaacs, One Thing and Another (reviewed by Bruce Pratt)
30 August 2018: Simpson, Soccer under the Swastika (reviewed by Justin Lyons)
16 August 2018: Snyder, 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym (reviewed by Matthew Teutsch)
15 August 2018: Alou with Kerasotis, Alou: My Baseball Journey (reviewed by Dave Buchanan)
14 August 2018: Abdou & Dopp, eds., Writing the Body in Motion (reviewed by Adrian Markle)
13 August 2018: Shinn, World Class (reviewed by Dennis Gildea)
10 August 2018: Chill, Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish (reviewed by Emily Ruth Rutter)
9 August 2018: Stark, When Basketball Was Jewish (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
6 August 2018: Gmelch & Nathan, eds., Baseball beyond Our Borders (reviewed by Joseph L. Price)
14 May 2018: Smith, The Humility of the Brutes (reviewed by Don Johnson)
22 April 2018: Kirk, Taken by Speed (reviewed by Mark Howell)
20 April 2018: Bell with Borges, Present at the Creation (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
19 April 2018: Rosen, The Chosen Game (reviewed by Joseph Dorinson)
18 April 2018: Veness & Veness, Defying Expectations (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
20 March 2018: Moore, I Fight for a Living (reviewed by Matthew Teutsch)
19 March 2018: Reeths, The United States Football League, 1982-1986 (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
10 March 2018: Anderson, The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
9 March 2018: Currier, The California Golden Seals (reviewed by Dave Buchanan)
8 March 2018: Matos, The Quitters (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
6 March 2018: Bryant, Dear Basketball (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
29 January 2018: Lucas et al., Redemption (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
19 January 2018: Berlin, The Standing Eight (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
8 January 2018: Oates, Football and Manliness (reviewed by Pam R. Sailors)
21 December 2017: Walt Whitman's Guide to Manly Health & Training (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
14 December 2017: Anderson, The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
21 October 2017: Kimball, Legends Never Die (reviewed by Matt Teutsch)
19 October 2017: Florio & Shapiro, One Nation under Baseball (reviewed by Joseph L. Price)
29 September 2017: Mwaniki, The Black Migrant Athlete (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
27 September 2017: Withers, The War of the Wheels (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
8 September 2017: Snelling, Lefty O'Doul (reviewed by Amy Essington)
5 September 2017: Kashatus, Macho Row (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
28 August 2017: Epstein, Masters of the Games (reviewed by Jack Ryan)
25 August 2017: Shattuck, Bloomer Girls (reviewed by Lisa Timpf)
21 August 2017: Steinberg, Urban Shocker (reviewed by Tim Morris)
14 August 2017: Prison Fighters (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
1 August 2017: Borders & Ardell, Making My Pitch (reviewed by Dave Buchanan)
5 June 2017: Garratt, Home Team (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
22 May 2017: Raisin, A Natural (reviewed by Andy Harvey; .pdf)
17 April 2017: Leeke, From the Dugouts to the Trenches (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
28 February 2017: Trothen, Winning the Race? (reviewed by Donald Chris Risker)
9 February 2017: Parlour & Lawrence, The Romford Pelé (reviewed by Philip Wedge)
6 February 2017: Socolow, Six Minutes in Berlin (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
19 January 2017: Keiderling, Olympic Collision (reviewed by Pam R. Sailors)
10 January 2017: Llewellyn & Gleaves, The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism (reviewed by Susan J. Rayl)
6 January 2017: Hodges & Fanning, Long Shot (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
5 January 2017: Fallon, Dodgerland (reviewed by Amy Essington)
4 January 2017: Paisner, A Single Happened Thing (reviewed by Mark Noe)
23 December 2016: Crawford, Le Football (reviewed by Corry Cropper)
22 December 2016: Liparulo, Farewell to Football? (reviewed by Matt Teutsch)
19 December 2016: O'Toole, Fight for Old DC (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
16 December 2016: Burton & O'Reilly, eds., Sports Business Unplugged (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
15 December 2016: Harrow, ed., British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (reviewed by Mark D. Noe)
14 December 2016: Walker & Roberts, The Road to Madness (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
13 December 2016: Finnegan, Barbarian Days (reviewed by Jim Coby)
18 November 2016: Hoffman, Bike Lanes are White Lanes (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
16 November 2016: Homan, Iron Mac (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
15 November 2016: Guroff, The Mechanical Horse (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
14 November 2016: Moore, Playing with the Enemy (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
4 October 2016: Engel & Jenkins, Pigskin Rapture (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
3 October 2016: Pennell & Pennell, A Canterbury Pilgrimage (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
2 September 2016: Trumpbour & Womack, The Eighth Wonder of the World (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
8 August 2016: Lieberman, Sports Heroines on Film (reviewed by Susan J. Bandy)
21 July 2016: Gruver, Hairs vs. Squares (reviewed by Kenneth Sammond)
20 July 2016: Russo, Striking Distance (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
19 July 2016: The Best of Peter Finney (reviewed by Matthew Teutsch)
18 July 2016: Branson, Greatness in the Shadows (reviewed by Susan J. Rayl)
11 July 2016: Osmond and Phillips, Sport History in the Digital Era (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
10 July 2016: Wallace, String Theory (reviewed by Dave Buchanan)
27 May 2016: Pieper, Sex Testing (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
18 May 2016: Gmelch, Playing with Tigers (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
17 May 2016: Jamieson, The Self-Propelled Voyager (reviewed by Dave Buchanan)
2 May 2016: Manny (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
27 April 2016: Bowering, The Hockey Scribbler (reviewed by Jason Blake)
9 April 2016: Corzine, Team Chemistry (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
8 April 2016: Haché, Slap Shot Science (reviewed by Charmayne Mulligan)
7 April 2016: Delaney, Sportsmanship (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
4 March 2016: Lawrence, Invincible (reviewed by Philip Wedge)
19 February 2016: King, Redskins (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
16 February 2016: Marc, Leveling the Playing Field (reviewed by Amy Essington)
15 February 2016: Vogan, ESPN (reviewed by Matt Teutsch)
23 December 2015: Stedronsky, The Cubs Book of Rap (reviewed by Mark D. Noe)
22 December 2015: Kaplan, The Jewish Olympics (reviewed by Joseph L. Price)
2 December 2015: King, Meeting Tom Brady (reviewed by Charmayne Mulligan)
24 October 2015: Plott, The Negro Southern League (reviewed by Tim Morris)
8 October 2015: Smith, Forever Red (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
1 October 2015: Kashatus, Jackie & Campy (reviewed by Michele Schiavone)
28 September 2015: Liberti & Smith, (Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph (reviewed by Grace Butcher)
14 September 2015: Fitts, Mashi (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
27 August 2015: Wood, Smoky Joe Wood (reviewed by Robert S. Brown)
22 August 2015: McFarland, ed., Facing America's Team (reviewed by Tim Morris)
18 August 2015: Babb, Not a Game (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
10 August 2015: Chaline, The Temple of Perfection (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
26 July 2015: Ring, A Game of Their Own (reviewed by Ellyn Bartges)
20 July 2015: Goldberg, Unrivaled (reviewed by Joe Mullins)
22 June 2015: Jones, Dragons vs Eagles (reviewed by James Holzmeister)
14 June 2015: Reisler, Walk of Ages (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
6 June 2015: Burk, Marvin Miller (reviewed by Bob Epling)
4 June 2015: Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight (reviewed by Brian Burmeister)
24 May 2015: Pernot, Before the Ivy (reviewed by Mark Noe)
13 May 2015: Hart, Man Versus Ball (reviewed by Connie Ann Kirk)
21 April 2015: Armour & Levitt, In Pursuit of Pennants (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
17 April 2015: Henninger, Tony Oliva (reviewed by Dick Crepeau)
24 March 2015: Grierson, What Makes Olga Run? (reviewed by Chris Risker)
20 March 2015: Sykes, The Race against the Stasi (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
6 March 2015: Cover, Vulnerability and Exposure (reviewed by Chris Risker)
2 March 2015: Michael, The Game before the Money (reviewed by Bob Epling)
27 Feb 2015: Smith, Bush League Boys (reviewed by Amy Essington)
28 Jan 2015: Raider, Frozen in Time (reviewed by John Wong)
15 Jan 2015: Izenberg, Rozelle (reviewed by Richard Crepeau)
14 Jan 2015: Prescott, Call Them to Remembrance (reviewed by James Holzmeister)
5 Jan 2015: Steidinger, Sisterhood in Sports (reviewed by Connie Ann Kirk)
3 Jan 2015: Swanson, When Baseball Went White (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
2 Jan 2015: Rosen, Perfectly Awful (reviewed by Bob Epling)
3 Dec 2014: Kerber & Kerber, Major Taylor (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
2 Dec 2014: Scanlon, ed., Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds (reviewed by Justin D. Lyons)
4 Nov 2014: Agovino, The Soccer Diaries (reviewed by Matthew S. Tettleton)
1 Nov 2014: Crepeau, NFL Football (reviewed by Matthew Teutsch)
31 Oct 2014: Gutkind & Blauner, eds., For the Love of Baseball (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
14 Oct 2014: Kelly, Sport in Ireland: 1600-1840 (reviewed by Connie Ann Kirk)
13 Oct 2014: Fischler, Having a Career Day (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
22 Sept 2014: Fried, ed., Heart of the Order (reviewed by Kenneth Sammond)
10 Sept 2014: Deveney, Before Wrigley Became Wrigley; and Pathy, Wrigley Field Year by Year (reviewed by Mark D. Noe)
9 Sept 2014: Skiles, Football (reviewed by Ned Coates)
30 August 2014: Kastner, The 1929 Bunion Derby (reviewed by Diane McManus)
21 August 2014: Wancho. ed., Pitching to the Pennant (reviewed by Amy Essington)
10 August 2014: Rogers, Throwing Hard Easy (reviewed by Robert Ciaffa)
4 August 2014: Schrag, The Kansas Relays (reviewed by Philip Wedge)
30 July 2014: Howell & Miller, eds., Motorsports and American Culture (reviewed by Connie Ann Kirk)
27 July 2014: Buhite, The Continental League (reviewed by Tom Wells)
8 July 2014: Abdou, The Canterbury Trail (reviewed by Cory Willard)
1 July 2014: Halfon, Tales from the Deadball Era (reviewed by Matthew Teutsch)
30 June 2014: Fields, Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History (reviewed by Lisa Timpf)
18 June 2014: Armour, ed., The Great Eight (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
8 June 2014: Fischetti, Big Train's Backyard (reviewed by Jeffrey Beck)
9 May 2014: Reuss, Bring in the Right Hander! (reviewed by Tim Morris)
3 May 2014: Hornbaker, Turning the Black Sox White (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
28 April 2014: Gaudet, Two Good Rounds Superstars (reviewed by James R. Holzmeister)
23 April 2014: Gildea, Hoop Crazy (reviewed by Myles Schrag)
22 April 2014: Gems, Sport and the Shaping of Italian-American Identity (reviewed by Frank P. Fury)
14 March 2014: Fischer, ed., Facing Mariano Rivera (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
7 March 2014: Moreira, ed., ¡Arriba Baseball! (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
23 February 2014: McGill & Brach, Billy "the hill" and the Jump Hook (reviewed by Dennis Gildea)
12 January 2014: Mulé, Game Changers (reviewed by Matthew Teutsch)
10 January 2014: Ehrgott, Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club (reviewed by Mark Noe)
22 December 2013: Klein, Wide Open Fairways (reviewed by James Holzmeister)
21 November 2013: Lardner, Out of the Bunker and Into the Trees (reviewed by James Holzmeister)
16 October 2013: Craft & Sullivan, Pitching for the Stars (reviewed by Connie Ann Kirk)
2 October 2013: Hughes, ed., Fishing Stories (reviewed by Cory Willard)
29 September 2013: Sayers, The Powers (reviewed by Tim Morris)
18 September 2013: Swade, The Holy Grail of Hoops (reviewed by Myles Schrag)
9 September 2013: Doyle & Burch, The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
4 September 2013: Feezell, Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives (reviewed by Stephanie Wilson Rothfuss)
2 September 2013: Smith, ed., The Telegraph Book of the Tour de France (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
1 August 2013: Zimniuch, Baseball's New Frontier (reviewed by Huston Ladner)
30 July 2013: Baldassaro, Beyond DiMaggio (reviewed by Amy Essington)
25 July 2013: Spatz, ed., Bridging Two Dynasties (reviewed by Bob Ciaffa)
24 July 2013: DeMott, ed., Astream (reviewed by Jeremy Larance)
23 July 2013: Fitts, Banzai Babe Ruth (reviewed by Myles Schrag)
22 July 2013: Bradburd, Make It, Take It (reviewed by Don Johnson)
2 July 2013: Austin, Baseball's Last Great Scout (reviewed by Will Bishop)
18 June 2013: Literature and Sport (reviewed by Tim Morris)
11 June 2013: Roetheli, The 25,000 Mile Love Story (reviewed by Chris Risker)
10 June 2013: DeMott & Smith, eds., Afield (reviewed by Donald Johnson)
23 May 2013: Doyle, An African Rebound (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
9 May 2013: Smith, Its Ghostly Workshop (reviewed by Jeffrey Beck)
21 April 2013: Westcott, Philadelphia's Top 50 Baseball Players (reviewed by Tim Morris)
8 April 2013: Roberts, Almost Somewhere (reviewed by Rick Wallace)
27 March 2013: Eisenstein, Flip Turn (reviewed by Angie Abdou)
6 March 2013: Gildea, The Longest Fight (reviewed by Dick Stull)
27 February 2013: Cengel, Bluegrass Baseball (reviewed by Jeffrey P. Beck)
26 February 2013: Pachter, ed., Final Fenway Fiction (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
2 January 2013: Daly, The National Forgotten League (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
17 December 2012: Mills, Drawing Card (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
5 December 2012: Shields, Baseball is Just Baseball (reviewed by G. Louis Heath)
15 August 2012: Johnson, The Dandy Dons (reviewed by Robert S. Brown)
13 August 2012: DeVido, Las Vegas Soul (reviewed by David Vanderwerken)
1 August 2012: Little, The Sports Show (reviewed by Connie Ann Kirk)
23 July 2012: Nareau, Double jeu (reviewed by Tim Morris)
19 June 2012: Prescott, 'this rugby spellbound people' (reviewed by Rob Owens)
7 June 2012: Koreivo, Tales from the Tailgate (reviewed by James W. Pipkin)
4 June 2012: Buma, Refereeing Identity (reviewed by Angie Abdou)
23 April 2012: Alexander & Stafford, Children and Organised Sport (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
2 February 2012: Wenn, Barney, & Martin, Tarnished Rings (reviewed by Krystal Beamon)
23 November 2011: Laraque, Georges Laraque (reviewed by Angie Abdou)
5 October 2011: Overman, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sport (reviewed by Robert J. Higgs)
16 September 2011: Robinson, Lucky Me (reviewed by Kathleen Sullivan)
8 August 2011: Riess, The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime (reviewed by Tim Morris)
3 August 2011: Dobrow, Knocking on Heaven's Door (reviewed by Scott Peterson)
20 July 2011: Owens, The Pitch (reviewed by Jeremy Larance)
7 June 2011: Thorn, Baseball in the Garden of Eden (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
6 June 2011: Lockwood, Major League Bride (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
18 May 2011: Nucciarone, Alexander Cartwright (reviewed by Derek Catsam)
16 May 2011: Raley, Pitchers of Beer (reviewed by Leslie Heaphy)
4 Apr 2011: Kennedy, 56 (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
23 Feb 2011: Schaeffer, Five Big Mountains (reviewed by Jason Blake)
21 Feb 2011: Stout, The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert (reviewed by Kathleen Sullivan)
18 Feb 2011: German, Switch-Pitchers (reviewed by Don Johnson)
16 Feb 2011: Fuller, ed., Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender (reviewed by Alex Truncale)
29 Jan 2011: Craft, Our White Boy (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
14 Jan 2011: Schmid, ed., Climbing – Philosophy for Everyone (reviewed by Frank Fury)
16 Dec 2010: Porco, ed., Population Me (reviewed by Jamie Dopp)
22 Nov 2010: Wilber, Rum Point (reviewed by Tim Morris)
21 Nov 2010: Strecker & Strecker, eds., The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
20 Nov 2010: Ilundain-Agurruza & Austin, eds., Cycling: Philosophy for Everyone (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
7 Oct 2010: Kahn, The Hard Way Home (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
17 Sept 2010: Gabriel, Drowned Boy (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
6 Sept 2010: Thomson & Brown, Three Finger (reviewed by Mark D. Noe)
4 Sept 2010: Risolo, Soccer Stories (reviewed by Michael Buma)
1 Sept 2010: Evans, In Search of Powder (reviewed by Angie Abdou)
27 August 2010: Katz, Third and Long (reviewed by Michael Oriard)
8 July 2010: Rielly, Football: An Encyclopedia (reviewed by Dick Crepeau)
7 July 2010: Armstrong & Perry, Scoreboard, Baby (reviewed by Dick Stull)
6 July 2010: Scott, The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing (reviewed by Dick Stull)
4 July 2010: Spatz & Steinberg, 1921 (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
3 July 2010: Kelly, Shelby's Folly (reviewed by Dick Stull)
2 July 2010: Elias, The Empire Strikes Out; Wendel, High Heat (reviewed by Joseph Arbena)
10 June 2010: Lowenfish, The Imperfect Diamond (reviewed by James A. Vlasich)
29 March 2010: Dopp & Harrison, eds., Now is the Winter (reviewed by Angie Abdou)
25 March 2010: Wong, ed., Coast to Coast (reviewed by Jason Blake)
23 March 2010: Awkward, Burying Don Imus (reviewed by Sylvester Frazier)
8 March 2010: Bateman, Cricket, Literature, and Culture (reviewed by Jeremy Larance)
24 February 2010: Feldmann, Miracle Collapse (reviewed by Richard Crepeau)
15 February 2010: Holman, ed., Canada's Game (reviewed by Jason Beck)
20 January 2010: Johnson, Here and Gone (reviewed by David Vanderwerken)
8 January 2010: Budig, Grasping the Ring (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
7 October 2009: Papas, Gophers Illustrated; Peterson, The Vikings Reader (reviewed by Dick Crepeau)
28 July 2009: Perkins, Frantic Francis (reviewed by Julian Meldon D'Arcy)
27 April 2009: Winkler, The Wide Turn toward Home (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
9 March 2009: Cropper, Playing at Monarchy (reviewed by Alex Shakespeare)
3 March 2009: Cochrane, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies (reviewed by Tim Morris)
20 February 2009: Frommer, Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
22 January 2009: Armstrong & Mitchell, Global and Local Football (reviewed by David Kilpatrick)
19 December 2008: Turnbull, et al., The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (reviewed by Marc Jolley)
10 December 2008: Schumacher, Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA (reviewed by Richard Kortum)
29 November 2008: Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game (reviewed by Derek Catsam)
25 November 2008: Smith, Moon Road (reviewed by Robert Hamblin)
7 October 2008: Thompson et al, Baseball's Greatest Hit (reviewed by Marc Jolley)
15 September 2008: Freligh, Sort of Gone (reviewed by Tim Morris)
14 August 2008: Abdou, The Bone Cage (reviewed by Shelly Sanders)
8 August 2008: Shields, Body Politic (reviewed by Mark Bresnan)
4 July 2008: deMause & Cagan, Field of Schemes (reviewed by John Wong)
22 May 2008: Carney, A Baseball Family Album (reviewed by Joseph Stanton)
19 May 2008: Martin, Baseball Magic (reviewed by Robert W. Hamblin)
7 May 2008: Corder, The Heroes Have Gone (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
30 April 2008: Nappi, The Legend of Mickey Tussler (reviewed by Kathleen Sullivan)
12 April 2008: Farmer, Bicycling beyond the Divide (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
26 February 2008: Rosen, The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos (reviewed by Brett Conway)
17 December 2007: Hill, Sport and the Literary Imagination (reviewed by Fred Mason)
16 December 2007: Bjarkman, A History of Cuban Baseball (reviewed by Joseph Arbena)
5 December 2007: Felber, A Game of Brawl (reviewed by Scott Peterson)
4 December 2007: Levy, Tackling Jim Crow (reviewed by Robert S. Brown)
22 October 2007: Atlas & Alson, Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring (reviewed by Dick Stull)
21 October 2007: Cavanaugh, Tunney (reviewed by Dick Stull)
8 October 2007: Jansen, The Fade-away (reviewed by Scott Peterson)
4 September 2007: Perry, Just Joe (reviewed by Ron Kaplan)
3 September 2007: Hye, The Great God Baseball (reviewed by Scott Peterson)
27 August 2007: Jolley, Safe at Home (reviewed by Paul Leslie)
22 August 2007: Rychlik, Journeymen (reviewed by William Boyle)
8 August 2007: Blauner, ed., Coach (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
23 July 2007: Shiffert, Base Ball in Philadelphia (reviewed by Daniel R. Bronson)
22 July 2007: Castle, Baseball and the Media (reviewed by Keith Cannon)
13 June 2007: FILM REVIEW: Berger & Klores, Ring of Fire (reviewed by Richard Arlin Stull)
13 June 2007: Gems, The Athletic Crusade (reviewed by Robert S. Brown)
11 June 2007: Hamblin, Keeping Score (reviewed by Ron Smith)
4 June 2007: Farrell, Dreaming Baseball (reviewed by Tim Morris)
21 May 2007: Rielly, Baseball in the Classroom (reviewed by Tom Wells)
2 May 2007: Ross, A Mathematician at the Ballpark (reviewed by Brett Conway)
16 March 2007: Murphy, The Last Protest (reviewed by Caroline Collins)
12 March 2007: Peterson & Tomashek, Town Ball (reviewed by Scott Peterson)
26 February 2007: Giudice, Hands of Stone (reviewed by Dick Stull)
21 February 2007: Moffi, The Conscience of the Game (reviewed by Mark Noe)
14 February 2007: Bradburd, Paddy on the Hardwood (reviewed by Richard Kortum)
22 January 2007: Bonde, Gymnastics and Politics (reviewed by Wendy Varney)
24 December 2006: Gmelch, Inside Pitch (reviewed by Christopher Keshock)
21 December 2006: Carino, ed., Baseball/Literature/Culture Essays: 2004-2005 (reviewed by Scott Peterson)
11 December 2006: Sparks, Frank "Home Run" Baker (reviewed by Keith Cannon)
23 October 2006: Jones & Hazuka, A Method to March Madness (reviewed by Derek Catsam)
10 October 2006: Price, Rounding the Bases (reviewed by Brett Conway)
12 September 2006: Feldmann, Miracle Collapse (reviewed by Tim Morris)
25 August 2006: Picart, From Ballroom to DanceSport (reviewed by Fred Mason)
9 August 2006: Zirin, What's My Name, Fool! (reviewed by Dick Stull)
25 July 2006: Kayser & King, Baseball in the Lone Star State (reviewed by Jorge Iber)
8 June 2006: Catsam, Bleeding Red (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
7 June 2006: O'Toole, Wedded to the Game (reviewed by Jorge Iber)
25 May 2006: Fleming, The Unforgettable Season (reviewed by Mark Noe)
16 May 2006: King, ed., Native Americans in Sport and Society (reviewed by Jennifer Guiliano)
18 April 2006: Gay, Tris Speaker (reviewed by William Boyle)
10 April 2006: Boyd, All Roads Lead to Hockey (reviewed by Brett Conway)
3 April 2006: Lamb, Blackout (reviewed by Richard Crepeau)
10 March 2006: Shields, Body Politic (reviewed by Keith Cannon)
21 February 2006: Gurock, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports (reviewed by Eric Solomon)
13 February 2006: St. John, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer (reviewed by Derek Catsam)
2 February 2006: Meggyesy, Out of Their League (reviewed by Rus Bradburd)
17 January 2006: Belmont, The Art of Bicycling (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
16 January 2006: Kirwin, Out of the Shadows (reviewed by Sanjeev A. Rao)
16 July 2005: Corcoran, Duel in the Sun (reviewed by John Turnbull)
13 July 2005: Bissinger, Three Nights in August (reviewed by Michael Davenport)
24 June 2005: Ardell, Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime (reviewed by Scott D. Peterson)
23 June 2005: Axelson, �Commy�: The Life Story of Charles A. Comiskey (reviewed by Keith Cannon)
22 June 2005: Powers-Beck, The American Indian Integration of Baseball (reviewed by Jennifer Guiliano)
20 June 2005: Hopkins, The Eight Yard Run (reviewed by Derek Charles Catsam)
31 May 2005: Kennedy, A Course of Their Own: A History of African American Golfers (reviewed by J. Paul Leslie)
19 May 2005: Fox, Satchel Paige's America (reviewed by Duncan R. Jamieson)
17 May 2005: Bloom, God on the Starting Line (reviewed by Diane McManus)
15 May 2005: Klapisch & Harper, The Worst Team Money Could Buy (reviewed by Daniel R. Bronson)
7 May 2005: Ham, Larceny and Old Leather (reviewed by Sanjeev A. Rao, Jr.)
28 April 2005: Dierker, This Ain't Brain Surgery (reviewed by William Boyle)
26 April 2005: Stull, Muhammad's Robe (reviewed by Glynn Leyshon)
24 April 2005: Evers & Fullerton, Touching Second (reviewed by Ed Sims)
28 March 2005: Block, Baseball Before We Knew It (reviewed by Richard C. Crepeau)
5 February 2005: McElwain, The Only Dance in Iowa (reviewed by Keith Cannon)
28 January 2005: Einstein, Willie's Time (reviewed by Leslie Heaphy)
26 January 2005: Guttman and Thompson, Japanese Sports, A History (reviewed by Leslie Heaphy)
2 November 2004: Gogol, Hard Fought Victories (reviewed by Theresa Tiso)
30 October 2004: Johnson, The Sporting Muse (reviewed by David Allan Evans)
20 October 2004: Jay, More than Just a Game (reviewed by Scott Winkler)
16 October 2004: Korr, The End of Baseball as We Knew It (reviewed by Derek Catsam)
5 October 2004: Zang, Sports Wars (reviewed by Richard Arlin Stull)
31 August 2004: Hano, A Day in the Bleachers (reviewed by Michele Schiavone)
24 August 2004: Collins, The Last Best League (reviewed by Ron Kaplan)
28 May 2004: Tofel, A Legend in the Making (reviewed by Duncan Jamieson)
21 May 2004: Bernstein, Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession (reviewed by Daniel R. Bronson)

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