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Democracy at the Ballpark
(November 2021)
Sport, Spectatorship, and Politics
Thomas David Bunting - Author
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Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.
What is the relationship between sports and politics? Often, politics are thought to be serious, whereas sports are diversionary and apolitical. Using baseball as a case study, Democracy at the Ballpark challenges this understanding, examining politics as they emerge at t...(Read More) |
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Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
(November 2021)
Ann R. Hawkins - Editor
Erin N. Bistline - Editor
Catherine S. Blackwell - Editor
Maura Ives - Editor
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Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.
A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances...(Read More) |
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Beyond the Xs and Os
(September 2019)
Keeping the Bills in Buffalo
Mark C. Poloncarz - Author
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Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.
Beyond the Xs and Os is the previously unpublished story of how a long-term stadium lease was negotiated and signed by New York’s Erie County, the state, and the Buffalo Bills football team. Mark C. Poloncarz, the elected executive of the community th...(Read More) |
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Forest and Crag
(March 2019)
A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Laura Waterman - Author
Guy Waterman - Author
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A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with the mountains and wilderness.
Thirty years after its initial publication, this beloved classic is back in print. Superbly researched and written, Forest and Crag is the definitive history of our love affair with the mountains of the Northeastern United States, from the Catskills and the Adirondacks of New York to the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of Ne...(Read More) |
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Running the Long Path
(December 2016)
A 350-mile Journey of Discovery in New York's Hudson Valley
Kenneth A. Posner - Author
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FINALIST - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Sports category
An ultrarunner’s fast-paced narrative into the wilds of New York’s Hudson Valley, as he attempts to set a new record for completing the Long Path, a 350-mile hiking trail that links New York City and Albany.
Have you ever considered running 350 miles in nine days? Kenneth A. Posner did just that when he complet...(Read More) |
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The Heroic Age of Diving
(April 2016)
America's Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie
Jerry Kuntz - Author
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A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.
Winner of the 2016 Dr. Art Bachrach Literary Award presented by the Historical Diving Society
Silver Medalist, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation Category
Beginning in 1837, some of the most brilliant engineers of America’s Industria...(Read More) |
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The Creation of Wing Chun
(August 2015)
A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts
Benjamin N. Judkins - Author
Jon Nielson - Author
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Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.
This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong’s Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee’s teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing...(Read More) |
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Sports and Labor in the United States
(July 2015)
Michael Schiavone - Author
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LONGLISTED - 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, presented by PEN American Center
Overview and analysis of labor relations in the big four American sports.
Are today’s professional athletes nothing more than selfish, greedy millionaires with no idea how ordinary people live? The common perception of today’s professional baseball, basketball, f...(Read More) |
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Feminist Figure Girl
(February 2015)
Look Hot While You Fight the Patriarchy
Lianne McTavish - Author
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Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.
Feminist Figure Girl chronicles the transformation of art history professor Lianne McTavish, from a university professor into an extraordinarily tanned and crystal-encrusted bikini-wearing “figure girl.” Figure competitions seek a softer appearance than traditional forms of bodybuilding but still require rigorous weightl...(Read More) |
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Going the Distance
(October 2013)
A Novel
Michael Joyce - Author
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FINALIST - 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Literary Category
FINALIST - 2013 CASEY Award, presented by Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine
His major league baseball dreams dashed, a former pitcher returns home to make a life or death family decision.
Going the Distance is a baseball novel with a diff...(Read More) |
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