Books reviews

J. Neils (ed.), Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Pp. 227, 24 colour plates, 170 b&w illus. $49.50 (£37.50) cloth; $19.95 (£13.95) paper. ISBN 0–691–03612–8 (cloth); 0–691–00223–1 (paper).

Steven H. Lonsdale, Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Pp. xxi + 352. Illustrations, bibliography, indexes. $39.95. ISBN 0–8018–4594–7.

Ramachandra Guha, Spin and Other Turns: Indian Cricket's Coming of Age (London: Penguin Books, 1994). Pp. xii + 158. Rs 100. ISBN 0–14–024720–3.

Robert Mechikoff and Steven Estes, A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From the Ancient Greeks to the Present (Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1993). Pp. 391. $29.50. ISBN 0–697–12159–3. Elliot J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein, A Brief History of American Sports (New York: Hill and Wang — Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993). ISBN 0–8090–1561–7. Pp. 290. $11.95.

Richard O. Davies, America's Obsession: Sports and Soceity since 1945 (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace, 1994). Pp. 274. $16.00. ISBN 0–03–073332–4.

Ted Vincent, The Rise and Fall of American Sport: Mudville's Revenge (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp. 358. ISBN 0–8032–9613–4.

Leonard Koppett, Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter's View of Sports, Journalism and Society (Urbana and Chicago: University of Ilinois Press, 1994) paperback reprint of book originally published in 1981. Pp. xiv + 296. ISBN 0–252–06415–1.

Gilbert Andrieu, Force et beauté. Histoire de l'esthétique en éducation physique (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1992). Pp. 252. FF150. ISBN 2–86781–125–2.

Charles Fountain, Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). Pp. 327. $25.00. ISBN 0–19–506176–4.

Peter Levine, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Charles S. Prebish. Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1993). Pp. xix + 243. ISBN 0–313–28729–5.

Tom Derderian, Boston Marathon: The History of the World's Premier Running Event (Champaign: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1994). Pp. xxvi + 606. $21.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–87322–491–4.

Kevin McAleer, Dueling, The Cult of Honor in Fin‐de‐Siècle Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). Pp. 268. $24.95. ISBN 0–691–03462–1.     

The Tour de France and the doping issue

Susan Brownell, Training the Body for China: Sport in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1995). Pp.339, illustrations, index. $18.95. ISBN 0–226–07647–4.

Donald G. Jones, with Elaine L. Daly, Sports Ethics in America: A Bibliography, 1970–1990 (Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, No.21). (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992). Pp.xxii + 291. $55.00. ISBN 0–313–27767–2.

Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français, Pour un humanisme du sport. Après un siècle d'Olympisme (Paris, CNOSF‐Editions Revue EPS, 1994). Pp.254.

Youcef Fates, Sport et Tiers‐Monde (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994). Collection Pratiques corporelles. Pp.214.

Nick Evangelista (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Sword (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995). Pp.xxiv + 690. $79.50. ISBN 0–313–27896–2.

George B. Kirsch (ed.), Sports in North America: A Documentary History. Vol. 4, Sports in War, Revival and Expansion, 1860–1880. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1995. Pp.xvi + 402, bibliography. ISBN 0–87569–135–8.

Eric M. Leifer, Making the Majors: The Transformation of Team Sports in America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). Pp.xiv + 377.

David L. Porter (ed.), African‐American Sports Greats: A Biographical Dictionary (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press). Pp.ix + 429. $59.95. ISBN 0–313–28987–5.

Sol White, History of Colored Baseball: with other documents on the early Black Game, 1886–1936, introduced by Jerry Malloy (University of Nebraska Press, a Bison Book, 1996). Pp.187. $12.00. ISBN 0–8032–9783–1. Steve Fireovid and Mark Winegardner, The 26th Man: One Minor League Pitcher's Pursuit of a Dream. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, a Bison Book, 1991). Pp.236. $12.95. ISBN 0–8032–6891–2.

Donald J. Ross, Golf Has Never Failed Me: The Lost Commentaries of Legendary Golf Architect Donald J. Ross (Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1996). Pp.xi + 251, Illustrations, photographs. $29.95. ISBN 1–886947–1‐4.

Sidney Lewis Matthew, Life and Times of Bobby Jones (Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1995), photographs, illustrations, letters. $49.95. ISBN 1–886947–02–3.

Curt Sampson, Hogan (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996). Pp.ix + 251, photographs, bibliography, index. $24.95. ISBN 1–55853–387–7.

Andrew Ritchie, Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Pp.303. $15.95. ISBN 0–80188–5303–6.

Scott Martin, Killing Time: Leisure and Culture in South Western Pennsylvania 1800–1850 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995). $29.95. ISBN 0–8229–3916–9.

Joseph Oxendine, American Indian Sports Heritage (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995; first published in 1988 with Human Kinetics Books). $16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8032–8609–0.     

Women,Philosophy, and Sport: A Collection of New Essays

Sport and Religion by Shirl J. Hoffman, Editor (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1992)

Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane by Charles S. Prebish, Editor (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993)     

Ending traditions: football and the study of football in the 1990s

John Williams and Stephen Wagg (eds.), British Football and Social Change: Getting into Europe (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991). Pp.258. £13.99 (paper). ISBN 0–7185–1410–6.

Steve Redhead (ed.), The Passion and the Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe (Aldershot: Arena, 1993). Pp.205. £29.95 (cloth) and £12.95 (paper). ISBN 1–85628–462‐X; 1–85628–464–6.

Alex Fynn and Lynton Guest, Out of Time: Why Football isn't Working (London: Simon and Schuster Pocket Books, revised edition, 1994). Pp.xiii + 400. £5.99 (paper). ISBN 0–671–85087–3.

John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson (eds.), Hosts and Champions: Soccer Cultures, National Identities and the USA World Cup (Aldershot: Arena, 1994). Pp.323. £35.00 (cloth); £14.95 (paper). ISBN 1–85742–227–9; 1–85742–228–7.

Richard Giulianotti and John Williams (eds.), Game Without Frontiers: Football Identity and Modernity (Aldershot: Arena, 1994). Pp.381 £35.00 (cloth); £14.95 (paper). ISBN 1–85742–219–8, 1–85742–220–1.

Richard Haynes, The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (Aldershot: Arena, 1995). Pp.xi + 169. £29.95 (cloth); £12.95 (paper). ISBN 1–85742–212–0; 1–85742–213–9     

Book Reviews

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Richard Cashman, Sport in the National Imagination: Australian Sport in the Federation Decades, Walla Walla Press, 2002, Pp. Vi + 282, $(A)29.95, ISBN 1 876718 48x Paperback.

Mike Huggins, Horseracing and the British, 1919-1939, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003, Cloth £49.99 ISBN 0719065283, Paper £16.99, ISBN 0719065291 Pp, Xvii + 230.

Arnd Krüger And William Murray (Eds.), The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s, Urbana And Chicago, University Of Illinois Press, 2003, Pp.Ix + 262. $44.95. ISBN 0-252-02815-5.

Doug Laughton (With Andrew Quirke), A Dream Come True: A Rugby League Life, London League Publications Ltd. October 2003, 164 Pages + Forword &; Publisher's Promotional Pages, ISBN: 1-903659-12-4.

Randy Roberts, Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler, Urbana: The University Of Illinois Press, 2003, Pp Xiii + 314. $19.95 ISBN 0-252-07148-4

Russell Sullivan, Rocky Marciano: The Rock Of His Times. Sport And Society. Urbana, II: University Of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. Xii + 368. Illustrated, Bibliography, Notes. $34.95     

Book reviews

Richard Cox, Sport — A Guide to Historical Sources in the UK (London, Sports Council, 1983). Pp.vii + 61. £8.00 ISBN 0 906577 34 9.

P.B. Munsche, Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws 1671–1831 (Cambridge, CUP, 1983). Pp.x + 255. £18.50. ISBN 0 521 23284 8.

Garry Whannel, Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport (London, Pluto Press, 1983). Pp. 117. £2.50. ISBN 0 86104 508 4.

David Smith and Gareth Williams, Fields of Praise: The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881–1981 (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1980). Pp.xii + 505. £12.95. ISBN 0 7083 07663.

John Arlott, Jack Hobbs — Profile of ‘The Master’ (London, John Murray and Davis‐Poynter, 1981). Pp. 144. £6.95. ISBN 07195 3886 6 (John Murray) and 0 7067 0214 X (Davis‐Poynter).

Richard S. Gruneau, Class, Sports and Social Development (Amherst, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1983). Pp.x + 213. $18.50 and $9.50. ISBN 0 87023 387 4 and 0 87023 388 2.

R. Roberts, Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler (London, Louisiana State University Press 1984). Pp.314. £8.50. ISBN 8071 1161 9.

Richard Cashman and Michael McKernan (eds.), Sport: Money, Morality and the Media (Kensington, NSW, New South Wales University Press, 1981). Pp. 343. ISBN 0 86840 160 9.     

Book Reviews 1992: One Man's Gleanings

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1992: One Man's Gleanings; A Round Up of Books on Cricket, Rugby League and Soccer

John Williams and Stephen Wagg (eds): British Football and Social Change; Getting into Europe. Leicester: The University Press, 1991: 258 pages.

Allen Guttman, Women's Sport: A History, New York, Columbia University Press, 1991, pp. x, 339

Harte, Chris. SACA: The History of the South Australian Cricket Association. Adelaide, Sports Marketing (Australia), 1990, 440pp.

Macrory, Jenny. Running with the Ball, the Birth of Rugby Football, London, Collins Willow, viii, 216pp.     

Neville cardus: a review essay

Neville Cardus, The Roses Matches 1919–1939 (London: Souvenir Press, 1982; repr. 1983). Pp.520. £10.95.

Neville Cardus, A Cardus For All Seasons, edited by Margaret Hughes (London: Souvenir Press, 1985). Pp.237. £8.95.

Neville Cardus, Autobiography (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984, first published 1947). Pp.288. £4.95.

Christopher Brookes, His Own Man. The Life of Neville Cardus, (London: Methuen, 1985). Pp.viii + 280. £12.95.     

Book reviews

Mike Huggins, Flat Racing and British Society, 1790–1914: A Social and Economic History (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000). Pp. xv + 270, 25 illustrations, index. £39.50/$57.50 (cloth); £17.50/$26.50 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–4982–1; 0–7146–8045–1.

Bill Mallon and Ian Buchanan, The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitions in All Events, with Commentary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2000). Pp. xx + 516, index. $45.00. ISBN 0–7864–0598–8.

Randy Shaw. Reclaiming America: Nike, Clean Air, and the New National Activism (University of California Press, 1999). Pp. ix + 312, index. ISBN 0–520–21359–9.

Mark Douglas Lowes, Inside the Sports Pages: Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). Pp. xiii + 126, index, bibliography. $40.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8020–4359–3; 0–8020–8183–5.

C. Gaddy, An Olympic Journey: The Saga of an American Hero: LeRoy T. Walker. (Griffin Publishing Group: California, 1998). Pp. xiv + 265, illustrations, bibliographical references, achievements. $24.95. ISBN 1–882180–92–5.

William Marshall, Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945–1951 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999). Pp. xii + 513, 81 photographs, index. $29.95. ISBN 0–8131–2041–1.

Bob Allen with Bill Gilbert, The 500 Home Run Club: Baseball's 15 Greatest Home Run Hitters from Aaron to Williams (Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing Inc., 1999). Pp. x + 273, photographs. $22.95. ISBN 1582610312.

Simon Rae, W.G. Grace: A Life (London, Faber and Faber, 1999). Pp. xx + 548, 30 illustrations, index. £20.00 (cloth); £9.99 (paper). ISBN 0–571–17855–3; 0–571–19573‐ 3.

David W. Anderson. More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). Pp. xxx + 285, 17 photographs, bibliography, index, $29.95. ISBN 0–8032–1056–6.

Joanna Avery and Julie Stevens, Too Many Men on the Ice: Women's Hockey in North America (Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 1997). Pp. 286, 62 photographs, 37 tables, index, bibliography. CANS 19.95; US$ 16.95. ISBN 1–896095–33‐X.

John Fizel, Elizabeth Gustafson and Lawrence Hadley (eds.), Sports Economics: Current Research. (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999). Pp. xiv + 246, index, bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0–275–96330–6.

Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and John J. Guthrie, Jr., Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1999). Pp. 206, index, bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 1–56720–193–8.

Adrian Shubert, Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp. 270, 17 illustrations, 2 appendices, index. $25.00. ISBN 0–19–509524–3.

Cindy S. Aron, Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp. xii + 324. 30 photographs, index. $35.00. ISBN 019–5055845.

L. Koppett, Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998). Pp. xiv + 521, index. $34.95. ISBN 1–56639–638–7. J.H. Bready, Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Pp. ix + 242, photographs throughout, index. $34.95. ISBN 0–9018–5833‐X.

L. Koppett, Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998). Pp. xiv + 521, index. $34.95. ISBN 1–56639–638–7. J.H. Bready, Baseball in Baltimore: The First 100 Years (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Pp. ix + 242, photographs throughout, index. $34.95. ISBN 0–9018–5833‐X.

J. Zoss and J. Bowman, Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1996). Pp. xiv + 433, many photographs, index. $16.95. ISBN 0–8092–3234–0. M. Stang and L. Harkness, Baseball by the Numbers: A Guide to the Uniform Numbers of Major League Teams. American Sports History Series, No. 4 (Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1997). Pp. xix + 1125, 8 photographs. ISBN 0–8108–3054‐X.

R. Ruck, The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 1999). Pp. xx + 215, 19 photographs, 3 maps, index. $12.00. ISBN 0–8032–8978–2.

D.Q. Voigt, The League That Failed. American Sports History Series, No. 10 (Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998). Pp. xiv + 322, 23 photographs, index. $45.00. ISBN 0–8108–3309–3.

J. Zoss and J. Bowman, Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1996). Pp. xiv + 433, many photographs, index. $16.95. ISBN 0–8092–3234–0.

M. Stang and L. Harkness, Baseball by the Numbers: A Guide to the Uniform Numbers of Major League Teams. American Sports History Series, No. 4 (Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1997). Pp. xix + 1125, 8 photographs. ISBN 0–8108–3054‐X.

R. Ruck, The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 1999). Pp. xx + 215, 19 photographs, 3 maps, index. $12.00. ISBN 0–8032–8978–2.

D.Q. Voigt, The League That Failed. American Sports History Series, No. 10 (Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998). Pp. xiv + 322, 23 photographs, index. $45.00. ISBN 0–8108–3309–3.

Eddie Irvine, with Jane Nottage, Life in the Fast Lane: The Inside Story of the Ferrari Years (London: Ebury Press, 1999; distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, Vermont). Pp. xxiii + 232, 32 photographs. $29.95. ISBN 0–09–18746–02.

J.S. Todd, Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800–1875 (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1998). Pp. ix + 369, 81 illustrations, methodology, bibliography, index. US$39.95. ISBN 0–86554–561–8.

Eric G. Dunning, Joseph A. Maguire and Robert E. Pearton (eds.), The Sports Process: A Comparative and Developmental Approach (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1993). Pp. 279 + xiii, index. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–87322–419–1.

Christiane Eisenberg, "English Sports “ und deutsche Bürger: Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte 1800–1939 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1999). Pp. 523.

M.L. Biscotti (comp.), A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926–1985 (Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997). Pp. ix + 573. $80.00. ISBN 1–886967–06–7.

J.L. Arbena (comp.), Latin American Sport: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988–1998, Bibliographies and Indexes on Sports History No 3 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999). Pp. vii + 264. $75.00. ISBN 0–313–29611–1.

D. Kyle, H. Lee, T. Scanlon and K. Kitchell, Entering the Stadium: Approaches to Ancient Greek Athletics. Editor K. Kitchell, The Classical Bulletin, Vol.74 (1998), No.2 (Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy‐Carducchi). Pp. 100–200. $20.00. ISSN 0009–8337.

Wendy Long, Celebrating Excellence: Canadian Women Athletes (Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 1995). Pp. 255. CAN$ 29.95. ISBN 1–896095–04–6.

Steven J. Overman, The Influence of the Protestant Ethic on Sport and Recreation (Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1997. Pp. + 394, index. ISBN 1 ‐85972–387‐X.

Douglas Booth, The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998). Pp. xxi + 250, 10 photographs, index. £42.50/$59.50 (cloth); £17.50/$26.50 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–4799–3; 0–7146–4354–8.

Mike Cronin, Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity since 1884 (Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 1999). Pp.214. £14.95. ISBN 1–85182–456–1.     

Book review

A.K. Dickinson, P.J. Lee and P.J. Rogers (eds.), Learning History (London: Heincmann Educational Books, 1984) Pp.x + 230. £5.95.

William Boyd, School Ties (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985). Pp.144, £8.95.

Randy Roberts, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (New York: The Free Press/London: Collier Macmillan, 1983). Pp.274.

John Burrowes, Denny: The Life and Times of a Fighting Legend (London: Fontana, 1984, first published Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, 1982). Pp.xii + 277. £1.95 (paperback).

J.K. Anderson, Hunting in the Ancient World (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1985). Pp. xiii + 192. £29.95 (hardback).

Thomas G. Bergin, The Game: The Harvard‐Yale Football Rivalry, 1875–1983 (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1985). Pp.xiii + 367. £19.95.

John Harding, Football Wizard. The Story of Billy Meredith (Derby: Bredon

Books, 1985). Pp.240. £4.95.

Charles E. Funnell,By the Beautiful Sea: The Rise and High Times of That Great American Resort, Atlantic City (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1983). Pp.209.

J.R.L. Anderson, High Mountains and Cold Seas (London: Victor Gollancz, 1982), Pp.366. £10.95.

Gerald Pawle, R.ES. Wyatt—Fighting Cricketer (London: George Allen & Unwin 1985). Pp.xvii + 278. £12.95.

Peter Wynne‐Thomas, ’Give Me Arthur’: A Biography of Arthur Shrewsbury (London: Arthur Barker, 1985). Pp.xi + 163. £9.95.

Michael D. Smith, Violence and Sport (Toronto: Butterworth, 1983) Pp.vii + 215. £20.00.     

A Chronology of Tony Mason's Scholarly Contribution to Sports History

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Lincoln Allison, Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and a Defence, London and Portland, Or: Frank Cass, 2001 Pp. XIII + 206, Hb £42.50 Pb £18.50. ISBN 0-7146-4969-4 (HBK) 0-7146-8030-3 (PBK).

Robert Gate, The Great Bev, London: London League Publications Ltd. 2002, PP. 292. PB £14.95. ISBN: 0-903659-06-X

Martin Johnes, Soccer and Society: South Wales, 1900-39, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002, PP. 238, cloth £25. ISBN 0-7083-1741-3.

David Hinchliffe MP (ED.), A Westminster XIII: Parliamentarlians and Rugby League, London: London League Publications Ltd, 2002 PP. 116. £9.95 (PB). ISBN 1 903659 09 4.

Claire E. Nolte, The Sokol in the Czech Llxds to 1914. Training for the Nation, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, PP. X + 256. ISBN 0-333-68298-X.

Donald G. Kyle Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, London: Routledue, 2001, PP. 288 £14.99. ISBN 041524842.

Charles P. Korr, The End of Basebali. AS WE Knew It: The Piayers Union 1960-81, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002 PP. XVIII + 336. S34.95 (H/B). ISBN 0 252 02752 3

Geoff Lee, One Spring: Romance, Rock ‘N’ Roll and Rugby League in the Seventies, Manchester: The Parrs Wood Press, 2002, PP. 214. £8.95. ISBN 1903158 28 1.

J.A. Mangan, Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: the Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology, London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000 PP. LVI + 346, paperback £22.50. ISBN 0-7146-8043-5.

Daniel A. Nathan, Sayzng IT's So: A Cultural History of the Black Son Scandal, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003, PP. VHI-289, CLOTH £32. ISBN 0-252-02765-5.

John O'Hara, Big River Racing: a History of the Clarence River Jockey Club 1861–2001, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002 pp. xiii + 288, photographs, footnotes, index. hardback a$ 49.95.ISBN 0868406376

Adrian Smith &; Dilwyn Porter (EDS.), Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport, London and Portland OR: Frank Cass, 2000, PAPER, £17.50, PP. Xvi + 197, ISBN 0-7146-8127-X

John Sugden and Alan Bairner (EDS.), Sport in Divided Societies, Aachen: Meyer and Meyer, 1999, PP. 234. £12.95 (PBK) ISBN 3-89124-445-2.

Maarten Van Bottenburg, Global Games, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002, PP. 360, cloth £22. ISBN: 0252026543.

Gavin Willacy, Rugby League Bravehearts, London: London League Publications. 2002. PP. 206. £9.95. ISBN 1-903659-05-1.

Tara Magdalinski and Timothy J.L. Chandler, With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion, London: Routledge, 2002, PP. 203, ISBN 0-415-25960-6.

Richard William Cox British Sport: A Bibliography TO 2000 (Vol. 1 Nationwide Histories Vol. 2; Local. Histories, Vol. 3, Biographical Studies of British Sportsmen, Sportswomen and Animals) London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003. Vol. 1, PP.XXXIII + 164, author index, £30, ISBN 0-7146-5250-4. Vol. 2, PP XXVIII + 283, author index, £45. ISBN 0-7146-5251-2. Vol. 3, PP XXXIII + 141, author index, £30 ISBN 0-7146-5252-0.

M. Ann Hall (2002) The Girl and the Game. A History of Women's Sport in Canada Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press Ltd, 2002. Paper, £14.99. ISBN 1-55111-268-X. PP. 284     

The tombs at Vergina and the representation of physical culture

Warren Goldstein, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp.182; index, notes.

James Edward Miller, The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore, Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp.382; index, notes, illus.

George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, New York and London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp.353; index, illus.     

(Dis)located Olympic patriots: sporting connections,administrative communications and imperial ether in interwar New Zealand

During the interwar period (1919–1939), protagonists of the early New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) worked to renegotiate and improve the country's international sporting participation and involvement in the International Olympic Committee. To this end, NZOC effectively used its locally based administrators and well-placed expatriates in Britain to variously assert the organization's nascent autonomy, independence and political power, progress Antipodean athlete's causes and counter any potential doubt about the nation's peripheral position in imperial sporting dialogues. Adding to the corpus of scholarship on New Zealand's ties and tribulations with imperial Britain, both in and beyond sport (e.g. Beilharz and Cox, 2007, “Settler Capitalism Revisited,” Thesis Eleven 88: 112–124; Belich, 2001, Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000, Auckland: Allen Lane; Belich, 2007, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century, Auckland: The Penguin Group; Coombes, 2006, Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa, Manchester: Manchester University Press; MacLean, 2010, “New Zealand (Aotearoa),” In Routledge Companion to Sports History, edited by Steve W. Pope and John Nauright, 510–525, London: Routledge; Phillips, 1984, “Rugby, War and the Mythology of the New Zealand Male,” The New Zealand Journal of History 18 (1): 83–103; Phillips, 1987, A Man's Country: The Image of the Pakeha Male, Auckland: Penguin Books; Ryan, 2004, The Making of New Zealand Cricket, 1832–1914, London: Frank Cass; Ryan, 2005, Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854–2004, Dunedin: University of Otago Press; Ryan, 2007, “Sport in 19th-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand: Opportunities and Constraints,” In Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand Society, edited by Chris Collins and Steve Jackson, 96–111, Auckland: Thomson), I will examine how the political actions and strategic location of three key NZOC agents (specifically, administrator Harry Amos and expatriates Arthur Porritt and Jack Lovelock) worked in their own particular ways to assert the position of the organization within the global Olympic fraternity. I argue that the efforts of Amos, Porritt and Lovelock also concomitantly served to remind Commonwealth sporting colleagues (namely Britain and Australia) that New Zealand could not be characterized as, or relegated to being, a distal, subdued or subservient colonial sporting partner. Subsequently, I contend that NZOC's development during the interwar period, and particularly the utility of expatriate agents, can be contextualized against historiographical shifts that encourage us to rethink, reimagine and rework narratives of empire, colonization, national identity, commonwealth and belonging.     

Book Reviews

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Carter, J. E. Lindsay, and Heath, Barbara Honeyman. Somatotyping: Development and Applications. (Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology, 5). Cambridge: Cambridge Univenity Press, 1990. pp. xiv, 503. Reviewed by Gaston Beunen, Study Centre for Physical Development Research, Institute of Physical Education, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Clark, Jane E., &; Humphrey, J. H. (Eds.). Advances in Motor Development Research (Vol. 3). New York: AMS Press, 1990. pp. xi, 259. Index, references. Reviewed by Mary Ann Roberton, Bowling Green State University

Kyle, Donald G., and Stark, Gary D. (Ed.), Essays on sport History and sport Mythology. College Station, TX: Texas A&;M University Press, for the University of Texas at Arlington. pp. vi, 154. Reviewed by Synthia S. Slowikowski, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

MacDougall, J. D., Wenger, H. A., &; Green, H. J. (Eds.). Physiologiml Testing ofthe High Peifonnance Athlete. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1991. Pp, vii, 424. Tables, figures, photos, references. Reviewed by Paul Vaccaro, University of Maryland

Malina, Robert M., and Bouchard, C. Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetia, 1991, pp. 501. Index. Reviewed by Kathleen Haywood, University of Missouri–St. Louis

Metzler, M. Instructional Supervision for Physical Education. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1990. pp. vii, 248. References, index. Reviewed by Paul Paese, Southwest Texas State University

Parkhouse, Bonnie L, (Ed.). The Management of Sport: Its Foundation and Application. St. Louis: Mosby–Year Book, 1991, Pp. xviii, 404. Reviewed by Kathleen Davis, Northeastern University

Thomas, Jerry R., and Nelson, Jack K. Researda Methods in Physical Activity (2nd ed.), Champaign, Il.: Human Kinetics. 1990. 568 pp. Appendixes. Reviewed by Susan J. Hall, California State University, Northridge

Wells, Christine L. Women, sport, and Performance: A Physiological Perspective (2nd ed.) Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. 1991, 367 pp. Reviewed by Ann Ward, University of Massachusetts Medical Center     

Book reviews

William J. Baker and James A. Rog (eds.), Sports and the Humanities: A Symposium (University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 1983), Pp.126. $8.95.

William J. Baker, Sports in the Western World. (Totowa, N.J., Rowan and Littlefield, 1982), Pp.viii + 360. $19.95 (hardback).

J. Bale, Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland and Wales. (London, C. Hurst; Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982). Pp.187 £9.50.

J. A. Mangan, Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: the Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981). Pp.368. £28.

Beryl Furlong, Carnegie 1933–1983: College and School. (University of Liverpool, 1983). Pp.40. NP.

Gerald Redmond, The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth‐Century Canada. (London and Toronto, Associated University Presses, 1982). Pp.347. £16.50 (hardback).

Steven Tischler, Footballers and Businessmen (New York, Holmes and Meier, 1981). Pp.154.     

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Paul Goldman, Sporting Life: An Anthology of British Sporting Prints. (London, British Museum Publications, 1983). Pp. 136. £7.95.

Donald J. Mrozek, Sport and American Mentality, 1880–1910. (Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1983). Pp.xx + 284. NP.

Christopher Dodd, The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. (London, Stanley Paul, 1983). Pp.405. £14.95.

Ian T. Henderson and David I. Stirk, The Compleat Golfer: An Illustrated History of the Royal and Ancient Game. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1982). Pp.96. £5.95.

Jean‐Marie Brohm, Sport—A Prison of Measured Time. Essays. (Translated by Ian Fraser). (London: Ink Links, 1978). Pp. ix+ 185. NP.

Robert J. Higgs, Sports: A Reference Guide. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982). Pp.317. NP.

Gary Firth, James Hagerty, Keith Laybourn (eds.), Yorkshire at Play: A Guide to Historical Sources and their Uses. (Leeds: University of Leeds School of Education, 1982). Pp.x + 54. NP.

Sir Walter Gilbey, Sport in the Olden Time. (Liss, Hants: Spur Publications Company, 1975). Pp.[xi] + 117. £7.50.

Capt. L. Fitz‐Barnard, Fighting Sports. (Hindhead, Surrey: Triplegate Ltd. (Learnex), 1983). Pp.viii + 292. £15.00.

David B. Smith, Curling: An Illustrated History. (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1981). Pp.vii + 232. £12.00.     

Book Reviews

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Peter Bishop, Tranmere Rovers Football Club, Images of England Series, Stroud: Tempus Publishing Limited, 1998, Pp. i+128., Paperback ISBN 0 7524 1505 0.

Timothy J. L. Chandler and John Nauright (Eds.), Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender and Commerce London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999, Pp. 256, hardback £42.50, ISBN 0 7146 4853 1, paperback £16.50, ISBN 0 7156 4411 0. Reviewed by Martyn J. Powell

Fan Hong, Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China, London: Frank Cass, 1997, Pp. xiv + 342. $54.50 hardback and $26.50 paperback, ISBN (hardback) 0 7146 4633 4 and ISBN (paperback) 0714643343. Reviewed by Susan Zieff

J. A. Mangan, (ed.), Sport in Europe: Politics, Class, Gender. London: Frank Cass, 1999, Pp. 268 + ix. ISBN 0-7146-5 (cloth) £45, 0-7146-8005-2 (paper) £25. Reviewed by Tony Collins

R. Potts and P. A. Croxson, Bibliography of Model Yachting London: The Curved Air Press, 1999, £12, Pp. 149, ISBN 1 873148 10 0. Reviewed by Richard William Cox

Samuel O. Regalado, Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1998, Pp. 224, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-02372-2. Paperback. Reviewed by S.J.S. Ickringill

James Riordan and Arnd Krüger (eds.), The International Politics of Sport in the 20^th Century, London and New York: E. & F. N. Spon, 1999, £17.99, Pp. x + 254, ISBN 0-419-21160-8. Reviewed by Peter J. Beck

Peter J. Seddon. (Comp.), A Football Compendium: An Expert Guide to the Books, Films and Music of Association Football Boston Spa: The British Library, 1999, £30, Pp. Xvi + 815, ISBN 0-7123-1118-1. Reviewed by Richard William Cox

Alan Tomlinson, The Game's Up: Essays in the Cultural Analysis of Sport, Leisure and Popular Culture Aldershot and Vermont, USA: Arena, Ashgate Publishing, 1999, Pp. xvi + 306, ISBN 1-85742-248-1 (hbk) £45.00 1-8742-249-X (pbk) £19.95. Reviewed by Peter J. Beck     

Book Reviews

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Bard, Chantal, Fleury, Michelle, and Hay, Laurette (Eds.). Development of eye-hand coordination across the life span. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 384. Figures, tables, references. Reviewed by Kathi Kamm, Indiana University.     

Sprint and jump performances do not determine the promotion to professional elite soccer in Spain, 1994–2012

ABSTRACT

The aims of this study are (a) to describe the evolution of neuromuscular performance over an 18 year period within a Spanish elite reserve team; (b) to check if there were any relation between the playing position and sprint and jump performances and (c) to look into the alleged impact of this factor on the top playing level attained by the soccer players. We considered the physical tests (5 m and 15 m sprint times and countermovement jump (CMJ) height) made by 235 players enrolled in the reserve team of the Club from 1994 to 2012 and the highest competitive-level they achieved: Spanish first (n = 39) and second divisions (n = 36) and semi-professional (n = 160). Furthermore, the players were classified according to their playing positions. The main findings were a very-likely/most-likely lower neuromuscular performance (ES = 0.48–0.68, small to moderate) in the last six-season term (2006–2012) than in the first term (1994–2000); possibly/very-likely lower performances in sprinting and CMJ (ES = 0.22–0.55, small) by central defenders (CDs) and midfielders than by other playing positions; very-likely better performances in sprinting and jumping by first and second divisions central defenders than by semi-professional central defenders (ES = 0.90–1.02, moderate). Sprint and jump performances are not a relevant physical parameter to promote to the top level of soccer in Spain except for one in six of the playing positions: CDs.     

Observing the coach-created motivational environment across training and competition in youth sport

Adopting an integrated achievement goal (Nicholls, J. G. (1989). The competitive ethos and democratic education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.) and self-determination theory (Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). The “what” and “why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 227–268. doi:10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_01) perspective as proffered by Duda, J. L. (2013). (The conceptual and empirical foundations of empowering coaching^TM: Setting the stage for the PAPA project. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 11, 311–318. doi:10.1080/1612197X.2013.839414), the aim of the current study was to observe empowering and disempowering features of the multidimensional motivational coaching environment in training and competition in youth sport. Seventeen grass-roots soccer coaches were observed and rated in training and competitive settings using the multidimensional motivational climate observation system (MMCOS; Smith, N., Tessier, D., Tzioumakis, Y., Quested, E., Appleton, P., Sarrazin, P., … Duda, J. L. (2015). Development and validation of the multidimensional motivational climate observation system (MMCOS). Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 37, 4–22. doi:10.1123/jsep.2014-0059). In line with our hypotheses, coaches created different motivational environments in the two contexts. More specifically, coaches were observed to create a less empowering and more disempowering environment in competition compared to in training. The observed differences were underpinned by distinctive motivational strategies used by coaches in the two contexts. Findings have implications for the assessment of the coach-created motivational environment and the promotion of quality motivation for young athletes taking part in grass-roots-level sport.