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Imagined Olympians : Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda
John Bale
Paperback - $51.95
Mascot Mania : Spirit of Texas High Schools
Sabrina Barlow
Paperback - $29.95
We've all heard that in Texas, high school sports are a religion. What is a religion without Spirit? This book takes a look at the Spirit behind the high schools of Texas--the Mascot that represents each school's religion." We've discovered that Texa ...
The Agua Caliente Story : Remembering Mexico's Legendary Racetrack
David Jimenez Beltran
Paperback - $32.95
During its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana became a hot destination for Hollywood stars, business moguls, and wealthy horse owners. Seabiscuit and Phar Lap raced there, as did top jockeys.
To Show What an Indian Can Do : Sports at Native American Boarding Schools
John Bloom
Paperback - $30.95
The Carlisle Indian School and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were among the many federally operated boarding schools enacting the U.S. government's education policy toward Native Americans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, one ...
When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport
Allen Jay Bodner
Hardcover - $80.95
A splendid oral history of a time in the 1920s and 1930s when Jewish athletes were the dominant ethnic group in professional boxing in the United States.
The Field : Truth and Fiction in Sport History
Douglas Booth
Paperback - $127.95
Sport history now provides a burgeoning literature, exploring themes from aerobics to yachting. Though the field is in good health Douglas Booth argues that in comparison to most mainstream history, sport history has rarely been called upon to questi ...
The One Hundred Greatest Moments in St. Louis Sports
Bob Broeg
Hardcover - $39.95
The 1904 Olympics, the man who created tennis's Davis Cup, a record-smashing seventy home runs in one season, a man named Stan, the first forward pass in football, and the richest collection of soccer talent in North America: Baseball Hall of Fame jo ...