- Globalizing Sport
- Barbara J. Keys
- In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.
- Hardcover 2006
- Muscular Christianity
- Clifford Putney
- In this fascinating study, Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Playing with God
- William J. Baker
- Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub
- Randy Roberts, Editor
- This book is a collection of original essays about the people and places that live in the minds and memories of Bostonians and all Americans. From the Boston of the young Bambino and even younger Francis Ouimet to the glories and agonies of 1986 and the struggles to keep the Patriots in town, each chapter focuses on the games and the athletes, but also on which sports have defined Boston and Bostonians. Pursuing the legend and the lore, these essays celebrate the players, the games, and the arenas that are at the heart of the city.
- Hardcover 2005