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Abstract: After Bianca Andreescu defeated Serena Williams to win in the 2019 US Open—the first major championship ever won by a Canadian—narratives within the Canadian news media overlooked the sport’s rich history in Canada. Adopting a short-term perspective, only developments since 2005 seemed to warrant attention. Previous to then, argued the former chair of Tennis Canada Roger Martin in the Globe and Mail, tennis in Canada “had a long track record of mediocrity”; it was “irrelevant on the international stage,” “hobbled by winter weather,” with too few courts, a “tiny budget,” and “[lacking] both world-class tournament and coaching infrastructures.”1 Essentially, the history of Canadian tennis, spanning 145 years, was ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A Black 1980s framework allows one to see history as a tangle of memory, politics, culture, and representational half-truths. It’s a decade defined as much by the color of our skin as by the content of our caricature.On September 2, 2023, head football coach for the University of Colorado Boulder Deion Sanders gave reporters a brief history lesson after his unranked team knocked off seventeenth-ranked Texas Christian University (TCU). “Coach Prime,” who has been criticized throughout his forty-year-career for his swagger and Hollywood persona, educated the press on the talent at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). He also showcased the sporting acumen of the Black athlete-turned-head-coach. ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From 1917 to 2005, the Women’s International Bowling Congress (WIBC) was the sole governing body for women’s ten-pin bowling in the United States. The WIBC regulated all league and tournament bowling for women to ensure standards and fair play and provided sanctions for those events that followed the guidelines outlined in their national constitution, bylaws, and rules.1 At the advent of World War II, during the 1941–42 bowling season, the WIBC had more than 183,000 members, in 625 local (city) bowling associations, bowling in 5,374 leagues.2 To help with the war effort, WIBC executives and members developed and coalesced around a nationwide fundraising campaign they initially called “Buy a Bomber,” then changed ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From its inception as an annual challenge in the early 1970s through most of the twentieth century, the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest was treated as a fun Fourth of July sideshow that brought the Coney Island, New York, restaurant a nice bit of brand recognition in the local tabloids. For more than two decades, there were no qualifying standards or entry processes to get on the stage. Some years the organizers would still be hunting for challengers in the crowd minutes before the event started. Birgit Felden, the 1984 champion, was one such late entry when, as a seventeen-year-old girl traveling to the United States with a judo club from West Germany who had “never eaten a hot dog before,” she emerged ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of this land: the Piscataway, Anacostan, and Pamunkey peoples. I would also like to thank the NASSH Distinguished Lectures and Honor Awards Committee—Dave Wiggins, Jerry Gems, Ornella Nzindukiyimana, Russell Field, and Vicky Parashak—for their invitation to deliver the 2023 Maxwell L. Howell and Reet Howell International Honor Address. This is a great privilege, and I hope I don’t disappoint you.I am particularly honored to have been invited to deliver this anniversary address because I had the privilege of knowing Max Howell for several years before his death in 2014. Max’s greatest contribution to me, one for which I am eternally grateful, was ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Journal of Sport History (JSH) is pleased to inaugurate an oral history section. It aspires to be a space for all manner of texts about orality and the sporting past: it will feature actual oral histories, of course, but also perhaps articles on theories, methods, and best practices; assessments of oral history collections; and review essays on oral histories, such as John B. Holway’s Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues (1975) and Diane LeBlanc and Allys Swanson’s Playing for Equality: Oral Histories of Women Leaders in the Early Years of Title IX (2010).As most JSH readers know (or will soon realize), sport history is heterogenous. It comes in many forms, relies on different sources and methodologies ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Oral history interviews expand and complicate the historical, and often dominating, narratives found in written sources such as newspapers, letters, diaries, government documents, and personal manuscripts. Relying solely or primarily on these traditional source materials presents a skewed or “top down” version of history that often favors the perspectives of powerful, elite white men, followed by white women of the same classes. What some of these sources have ignored and omitted, oral history interviews have uncovered “from the bottom-up,” by providing information about the inner workings and lives of ordinary, everyday people who were active agents in the shaping of history, including sport history. The inclusion ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Robert “Bobby” L. Vaughan was one of the most successful and celebrated basketball coaches in the history of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), the oldest historically Black athletic conference dedicated to the growth and sustainability of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their athletic programs. For thirty-seven years, Vaughan coached college basketball at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He established the program and amassed 502 career victories and two CIAA basketball championships.1 He led his teams to national postseason play seven times, winning three district championships in the National Association of Intercollegiate ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Kudos to John Bloom of Shippensburg University, who served on the University of East Anglia student Matthew Bentley’s dissertation committee. After Bentley’s untimely death in 2018, Bloom forged Bentley’s doctoral dissertation into this book. Bloom utilized Bentley’s careful reading of documents from the Carlisle Indian School archives, including oral histories from students, as well as newspapers and secondary literature.This research is a valuable addition to other works on Carlisle football by scholars such as Kate Buford, Sally Jenkins, and David Maraniss. However, the book’s title is somewhat misleading because the famous football program at Carlisle is not covered in detail here. It does not get much mention ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Conor Curran’s Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital chronicles the development of soccer in the city from the late nineteenth century until the early twenty-first century. The monograph does this well, covering the course of clubs and players as well as the history of competitions across more than a century. Dublin’s first soccer clubs were established in 1883, and Curran states in the book’s introduction that it is surprising that soccer took so long to take off in Dublin in comparison to England, where the game had been flourishing from the 1870s, considering the close ties between the city and England. However, the game’s popularity in Dublin rose significantly in ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Suds Series, writer J. Daniel provides an in-depth examination of the 1982 Major League Baseball season that culminated in a World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals, owned by the family that controlled the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. The book, which relies largely on archival newspapers as well as memoirs and autobiographies of players and managers, takes the reader through the ups and downs of the 1982 baseball season. Aside from a few abrupt transitions, the writing is crisp and clear, rarely repetitive, largely free of typos, and, if the reader is interested in the 1982 season, quite captivating. Suds Series has an introduction and a conclusion as well as ten chapters: one ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The origin story of Landscapes for Sport: Histories of Physical Exercise, Sport, and Health contains a 2019 Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture symposium, “Landscape, Sport, Environment: The Spaces of Sport from the Early Modern Period to Today.” Dumbarton Oaks, a research library in Washington, DC, founded by Robert and Mildred Bliss, organizes symposia specifically in Byzantine studies, pre- Columbian studies, and garden and landscape studies. Symposiarch of the 2019 Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Sonja Dümpelmann, chair of Environmental Humanities at Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München (until July 2023, Dümpelmann was professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Rarely does an American athlete’s postgame interview pass without a religious reference. From thanking God for victory to deferring glory to a deity, these moments blend religion and sport on a daily basis. Just as common as these references by athletes is the journalist who ignores the comment, moving quickly past it to analyze the game. The bifurcation of religious belief and sport has also seeped into the historian’s craft. Zev Eleff’s Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America works to correct this division by providing insight into the intersection of religion and American football. He uses the lives of Bill Bingham, Arnold Horween, and Eddie Casey to investigate the changing nature of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On Account of Darkness offers a rich historical account of racial relations in connection to sport in and around Chatham-Kent, a sparsely populated farming community located three hours southwest of Toronto. The urban center of the community is Chatham, “sandwiched” between the Indigenous communities of Delaware and Walpole Island First Nations and “home to Dresden and Buxton, two important terminals on the underground railroad” (1). Kennedy himself was born and raised there, witnessing firsthand the generational legacy of Canada’s traumatic past while juxtaposing this with “the multicultural discourse of equity, inclusion, and pluralism” (2) that most Canadians prefer. The his/herstories he tells in the course of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Football Pools, commonly referred to as the “Pools,” is a long-established weekly gambling system whereby the customer would predict the outcome of British soccer games. A weekly coupon would be produced listing approximately fifty Saturday fixtures, with the main aim being to find score draws, or ties (1–1, 2–2, etc.). There were variations, but one of the most popular was the idea of predicting eight score draws out of ten games selected. Winners could receive a life-changing amount, and the pools did produce millionaires. Individuals would participate with the hope of winning big, and syndicates would be formed at workplaces and elsewhere.Laybourn explains why the Pools became a significant part of the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The proliferation, in recent years, of excellent scholarly material that places Black women’s exercise and sport histories at the center of analysis is enough to make one giddy with joy and excitement. Fit Citizens joins that growing roster of monographs and, in doing so, greatly advances a body of knowledge about Black women’s history in sport and exercise spaces. Purkiss’s examination of the ways “Black women used exercise to demonstrate their ‘fitness’ for citizenship” and how they “made exercise instrumental to their ideas of health, ideal corporality, and civic inclusion” (2) brings provocative insights to bear on histories of physical culture, fitness, and exercise. Black women’s bodies, long seen by dominant ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From Walt Whitman branding the game America’s national pastime through modern best-selling biographies by the likes of Howard Bryant and Jane Levy, baseball has perhaps generated more prose than any other sport in the United States. This is also true in American cinema, which is laden with classic films about baseball. The game is cemented into American identity to such an extent that Ken Burns’s iconic documentary series Baseball remains a perennial conversation point for sports fans of a certain age cohort. As the twenty-fourth book in the Cultural Heritage Studies series, Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon’s coedited volume Baseball and Cultural Heritage builds on a rich body of literature that examines such ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From the moment this reviewer commenced delving into Aprile Yoder’s Pitching Democracy: Baseball and Politics in the Dominican Republic, the work of two great historians entered my mind. First, and not surprisingly, the famous quote by Jacques Barzun: “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules, and reality of the game.” Second, in a 2000 article by Samuel O. Regalado, the noted scholar quoted Joe Cambria as being able to sign players in Cuba for less “than you would pay for a hat.” What do these two quotes have to do with this work' Everything! Yoder’s work demonstrates that, just like Americans who (rightly or wrongly) associated the sport of baseball with democracy ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-24T00:00:00-05:00
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