sla: book review archive

BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVE

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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