First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this collection of essays brings together the previously discrete perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport. Using feminist ideas to explore the role of sport in women's lives, From Fair Sex to Feminism is a central text in the study of sport, gender and the body.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL AND LIFE'S GREATEST LESSON is a memoir about my time as a member of the 2007-2008 Boston College Varsity Men's Basketball team. It chronicles my transformation from normal college freshman into one of only thirteen members of an elite Division I basketball program, offering a window into the life of a walk-on both on the court and in the locker room. This memoir begins with the unlikely way in which I became a member of the team a daily lunch-time pick-up basketball game with Coach Al Skinner and continues with my horrific first practice, my only career basket, and ultimately, my life-altering decision to transfer. Through my memoir, I examine what practices and games were like as a member of the team, describe the numerous arenas I played in across the country, and discuss the thrill of meeting different celebrities throughout the season.

The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising tendencies of sport and the importance of local culture and a sense of place. This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. At a time when the importance of spacial theories and spacial metaphors to sport is being increasingly recognised, this pioneering work on the changing landscape of sporting life will appeal to students of the history, sociology and management of sport.

The traditional Corvo is a bladed weapon that is popularly regarded as the national knife of Chile. As such, it ranks alongside the Navaja of Spain, the Kukri of Nepal, and the America Bowie as a blade that was pivotal in the wars-and ultimately, the history-of its nation. The Corvo knife was so uniformly carried by Chileans that it saw wide use in Chile's 19th century War of Tndependence from Bolivia. So significant was the Corvo's prevalence in the war that the knife was officially adopted by the Chilean military. Today, the Special Commandos adhere to a uniquely-developed curriculum for the combative use of the Corvo, which includes its proper deployment in confronting enemy opponents, whether unarmed, or wielding knives, entrenching tools, or bayonets. In this book two edged weapons Masters, Fernan Vargas and James Loriega take you on a journey to explore the history, culture and use of the Corvo.

Contents:
Volume I: The Varieties of Sport
Part 1: Sport, Recreation, and Society

1. Besant, W., Amusements of the people, Contemporary Review, vol. 45, March 1884,
pp.342-53
2. Anon, Modern mannish maidens, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 147, February 1890, pp.252-64
3. Jeune, M., Amusements of the poor, National Review, vol. 21, May 1893, pp.303-14
4. Gambier-Perry, E., Sport and sportsmen, New Review, vol. 11, September 1894, pp.309-19
5. Anon, The poetry of sport, Quarterly Review, vol. 185, April 1897, pp.433-47
6. Gilkes, A.H., The worship of athletics, National Review, vol. 30, September 1897, pp.77-81
7. Graves, H., A philosophy of sport, Contemporary Review, vol. 78, 1900, pp.877-93
8. Aflalo, F.G., The sportswoman, Fortnightly Review, vol. 83, 1905, pp.891-903
9. Aflalo, F.G., The sportsman, Fortnightly Review, vol., 1907, pp.155-67
10. Monckton, O. Paul, Little known sports and pastimes, Contemporary Review, vol. 1000, October 1911, pp.551-60
Part 2: Team Sports
11. Dykes, T., Yacht racing, Fortnightly Review, vol. 38, August 1885, pp.193-202
12. Anon, The popular pastime cricket, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 140, December 1886, pp.755-63
13. Hutchinson, H., Cricket v. golf a comparison, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 147, April 1890
14. Spofforth, F.R., English cricket and cricketers: a retrospect, New Review, vol. 10. May 1894, pp.626-36
15. Lyttelton, R.H. , W.G., New Review, vol. 13, August 1895, pp.129-36
16. Anon, Our village eleven, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 159, April 1896, pp. 581-91
17. Hutchinson, H., The modern pentathlum, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 2, June 1897, pp.784-93
18. Ranjitsinhji, Cricket and the Victorian era, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 162, July 1897, pp.1-16
19. Jessop, G., Some hints to young bowlers, National Review, vol. 33, April 1899, pp.239-45
20. Abell, H.F., The football fever, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 89, 1904, pp.276-82
21. MacFarlane, H., Football of yesterday and today: a comparison, Monthly Review, vol. 25, 1906, pp.129-38
22. Trevor, P., The future of cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol., 1906, pp.526-35
23. Creed, P., Polo, Fortnightly Review, vol. 86, 1909, pp.1092-1102
24. Sewell, E.H.D., Rugby football, Fortnightly Review, vol. 85, May 1909, pp.978-89
25. Gordon, H., Problems of contemporary cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol, 1911, pp.175-79
26. Sewell, E.H.D., The state of the game, Fortnightly Review, 1911, pp.933-48
Part 3: Individual Sports
27. Osborn, R., Lawn tennis and its players, Contemporary Review, vol. 40, August 1881, pp.326-36
28. Bury, Cycling and cyclists, Nineteenth Century, vol. 17, January 1885, pp.92-108
29. Anon, The psychology of golf, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 143, May 1888, pp.683-9
30. Anon, A Rambler's Reflections, Cornhill Magazine, New Series, vol. 12, March 1889, pp.270-80
31. Pennell, Cycling: past, present and future, New Review, vol. 4, Feb 1891, pp.171-80
32. Mecredy, R.J., Winter cycling, Fortnightly Review, vol. 50, December 1891, pp.822-31
33. Lyttelton, A., Is golf a first class game?, National Review, vol. 22, October 1893, pp.184-8
34. Baden Powell, B., A trip heavenward. Ballooning as a sport, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 158, November 1895, pp.669-78
35. Creyke, C., Sailing for ladies in Highland lochs, Nineteenth Century, vol. 40, September 1896, pp.478-86
36. Grosvenor, A., Fancy and figure skating, New Review, vol. 14, February 1896, pp.152-61
37. Fenton, W.H., A medical view of cycling for ladies, Nineteenth Century, vol. 39, May 1896, pp.796-801
38. Broadfoot, W., Concerning pugilism, National Review, vol. 29, August 1897, pp.867-76
39. Creyke, C., Fancy cycling for ladies, Nineteenth Century, vol. 42, September 1897, pp.447-53
40. Palmer, W., Fell Walking records, Cornhill Magazine, New Series, vol. VI, April 1899, pp.507-18
41. Haultain, A., Golf, Contemporary Review, vol. 80, August 1901, pp.195-212
42. Jusserand, J.J. , Tennis, Nineteenth Century, vol., September 1901, pp.506-09

Volume II: Sport, Education, and Improvement
Part 1: Sport in Educational Institutions
43. Lyttelton, E., Athletics in public schools, Nineteenth Century, vol. 7, January 1880, pp.43-57
44. Almond, H.H., Athletics and education, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 43, 1881, pp.283-92
45. Anon, Cricket, Quarterly Review, vol. 158, 1884, pp.458-94
46. Pitman, F.I., Well rowed, Cambridge!, Fortnightly Review, vol. 42, August 1887, pp.214-22
47. Anon, The academical oarsman, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 142, December 1887, pp.834-47
48. Gambier-Parry, E., Compulsory games at public schools, National Review, vol. 14, November 1889, p.383-91
49. Lehmann, R.C., Are our oarsmen degenerate?, New Review, vol. 7, November 1892, pp.619-29
50. Brabazon, Physical education, National Review, vol. 20, December 1892, pp.461-68
51. Almond, H.H., Football as a moral agent, Nineteenth Century, vol. 34, December 1893, pp.899-911
52. Anon, The preparatory school, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 155, March 1894, pp.380-94
53. Lyttelton, R.H., Eton cricket, National Review, vol. 23, May 1894, pp.424-32
54. Anon, Should golf be encouraged at public schools?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 157, March 1895, pp.417-23
55. Ready, A.W., Public school products, New Review, vol. 15, 1896, pp.422-29
56. Various, Public school products a symposium, New Review, vol. 15, 1896, pp.612-20
57. Almond, H.H., The public school product a rejoinder, New Review, vol. 16, 1897, pp.84-98
58. Anon, Physical education in schools, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 165, 1899, pp.573-80
59. Spenser, H.J., The athletic master in public schools, Contemporary Review, vol. 78, July 1900, pp.113-17
60. Almond, H.H., The breed of man, Nineteenth Century, vol. 48, October 1900, pp.656-69
61. Yorke, P.C., On the education of the upper classes in France and England, The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 292, June 1902, pp.563-76
62. Welldon, J.E.C., The training of an English gentleman in the public schools, Nineteenth Century, vol. 60, September 1906, pp.396-413
63. Gordon, H., Youth in cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol. 87, 1910, pp.980-86
64. Coleridge, G., An old boys impression of the Fourth of June at Eton, Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 71, June 1912, pp.1192-1201
65. Lagden, G., Our public schools and their influences, Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 71, March1912, pp.568-81
Part 2: Sport, Health, and Training
66. Brabazon, Health and physique of our city populations, Nineteenth Century, vol. 10, July 1881, pp.80-89
67. Holland, B., London playgrounds, Macmillan's, vol, 46, August 1882, pp.321-24
68. Paget, J., Recreation, Nineteenth Century, vol. 14, December 1883, pp.977-88
69. Brabazon, Open spaces and physical education, National Review, vol. 8, December 1886, pp.483-90
70. Brabazon, Decay of bodily strength in towns, Nineteenth Century, vol. 21, May 1887, pp.673-6
71. Beresford, C., National Muscle, New Review, vol. 1, 1889, pp.62-67
72. Barney, The American sportswoman, Fortnightly Review, vol. 56, August 1894, pp.263-77
73. Roberts, C., The physiology of recreation, Contemporary Review, vol. 68, July 1895, pp.103-13
74. Anon, Shooting, Quarterly Review, vol. 185, 1897, pp.195-213
75. Anon, Are we an athletic people?, New Review, vol. 16, January 1897, pp.41-9
76. Turner, E.B., Health on the bicycle, Contemporary Review, vol. 73, May 1898, pp.640-8
77. Kenealy, A., Woman as an athlete, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, April 1899, pp.636-45
78. Chant, L., Woman as an athlete a reply to Dr. Arabella Kenealy, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, May 1899, pp.745-54
79. Kenealy, A., Woman as an athlete a rejoinder, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, June 1899, pp.915-29
80. Reaney, G.S., The civil and moral benefits of drill, Nineteenth Century, vol. 47, March 1900, pp.396-99
81. Thomas, W.B., Athletics and health, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 8, April 1900, pp.537-48
82. Kebbel, T.E., Fighting and fox-hunting, Macmillan's, vol, May 1900, pp.36-44
83. Luard, C.E., Rifle shooting as a new winter evening pursuit especially for working men and lads, Fortnightly Review, vol. 71, February 1902. pp.361-2
84. Shee, G.F., The deterioration in the national physique, Nineteenth Century, vol. 53, May 1903, pp.797-805
85. Bathurst, The physique of girls, Nineteenth Century, vol. 59. May 1906, pp.825-33
86. Anon, Sport and decadence, Quarterly Review, vol. 211, October 1909, pp.486-502
87. Herbert, A.K., The prominence of pastime, Nineteenth Century, vol. 68, September 1910, pp.536-44
88. Huddleston, T.F.C. and Colson, F.H., Physical and military training, Nineteenth Century, vol. 75, May 1914, pp.1114-18
Volume III: Field Sports
Part 1: Hunting, Shooting, and Fishing
89. Phillipps-Wolley, C., An anglers First of April, Temple Bar, vol. 67, April 1883, pp.505-512
90. Davenport, W.B., Fox-hunting, Nineteenth Century, vol. 13, June 1883, pp.978-91
91. Jefferies, R., The defence of sport, National Review, vol. 1, August 1883, pp.919-32
92. Seton-Karr, W.S. , Our game laws, National Review, vol. 2, February 1884, pp.838-50
93. Kebbel, T.E., English love of sport, Fortnightly Review, vol. 39, April 1886, pp. 540-51
94. Lascelles, G., The chase of the wild fallow deer. Nineteenth Century, vol. 20, October 1886, pp.503-15
95. Anon, The English gentry, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 143, May 1888, pp.705-19
96. Anon, Pampered sport and pheasant rearing, Westminster Review, vol. 130, October 1888, pp.463-73
97. Campion, G., Grouse shooting, National Review, vol. 13, August 1889, pp.721-37
98. Lascelles, G., Sport in the New Forest, New Review, vol., 1892, pp.353-61*
99. A Son of the Marshes, Chance shots and odd fish, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 154, July 1893, pp.110-18
100. Hartley, G., The future of field sports, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 67, March 1893, pp.365-73
101. Bickerdyke, J., A new sport Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 156, 1894, pp.418-29
102. Speedy, T., Deer-stalking - search for a Royal , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 158, September 1895, pp.351-8
103. Anon, My first kill, Temple Bar, vol. 106, November 1895, pp.356-67
104. Collier, W.P., Otter hunting, Temple Bar, vol. 117, August 1899, pp.560-66
105. Woodgate, W.B., Capping in the hunting field origin of the chase of the fox, Fortnightly Review, vol. 75, January 1904, pp.69-79
106. Teasdale Buckell, G.T., The Scotch deer forests, Nineteenth Century, vol. 60, November 1906, pp.745-50
107. Anon, Foxhunting old and new, Quarterly Review, vol. 206, January 1907, pp.197-215
108. Hodgson, W.E., Hope for the trout-streams, Nineteenth Century, vol. 61, April 1907, pp.638-44
109. Coleridge, The chase of the wild red stag on Exmoor, Nineteenth Century, vol. 62, October 1907, pp.650-2
110. Broadfoot, W., The gentle craft, Quarterly review, vol. 207, October 1907, pp.509-33
111. Hodgson, W. Earl, Fly-fishing, Nineteenth Century, vol. 63, May 1908, pp.787-93
112. Buxton, A., Dry-fly fishing for sea trout, Quarterly Review, vol. 219, July 1913, pp.66-79
Part 2: Opposition and Debates
113. Carlisle, H., On moral duty towards animals, Macmillan's, vol. 45, April 1882, pp.462-8
114. Dixie, F., The horrors of sport, Westminster Review, vol. 137, January 1892, pp.49-52
115. Greenwood, G., The ethics of field sports, Westminster Review, vol. 138, August 1892, pp.168-73
116. Salt, H.S., Cruel sports, Westminster Review, vol. 140, November 1893, pp.545-53
117. Bryden, H.A. , Hunting and its future, Fortnightly Review, vol. 63, March 1898, pp.448-60
118. Anon, The survival and destruction of British animals, Edinburgh Review, vol. 188, July 1898, pp.221-251
119. Stillman, W.J., A plea for wild animals, Contemporary Review, vol. 75, May 1899, pp.667-76
120. Maxwell, H., Our obligations to wild animals, Blackwood's, vol. 166, August 1899, pp.224-37
121. Campbell, J.S., Our brothers, the beasts, Nineteenth Century, vol. 61, 1907, pp.808-20
122. Lee, V., Wasteful pleasures, Contemporary Review, vol. 94, 1908, pp.679-91

Volume IV: Sport and Money
Part 1: The Sports Industry
123. Cameron, D., A defence of deer forests, Nineteenth Century, vol. 18, August 1885, pp.197-208
124. Lister, Queens plates.-Horse supply, National Review, vol. 9, June 1887, pp.465-78
125. Bickerdyke, J., Successful fish-culture in the Highlands, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 154, December 1893, pp.835-42
126. Howard, Foxhunters and farmers, National Review, December 1894, vol. 24, pp.546-56
127. Hillier, The cycle market, Contemporary Review, vol., 1897, pp.184-92
128. Cornish, C.J., The London game-shops, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 3, August 1897, pp.171-81
129. Duncans, The cycle industry, Contemporary Review, vol. 73, April 1898, pp.500-11
130. Underhill, G.F., Fox hunting and agriculture, Nineteenth Century, vol. 43, May 1898, pp.745-54
131. Cornish, C.J., The L.S.D. of sporting rents, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 5, August 1898, pp.183-94
132. Almond, H.H., The decay in our salmon fisheries, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, June 1899, pp.973-80
133. An Old Player, Football: the game and the business, World Today, vol. 1, 1902, pp.70-79
134. Aflalo, F.G., The writing of books on sport, Fortnightly Review, vol. 85, January 1909, pp.153-62
135. Hutchinson, H.G., Golf during thirty years, Quarterly Review, vol. 212, January 1910, pp.103-20
136. Bentley, J.J., Is football a business?, World's Work, vol. 20, 1912, pp.383-93
Part 2: Professionalism and Amateurism
137. Anon, Cricket, Quarterly Review, vol. 158, 1884, pp.458-94
138. Dooker, Frauds of sport, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 148, December 1890, pp.845-52
139. Hodgson, W. Earl, The degradation of British sport, National Review, vol. 17, August 1891, pp.784-98
140. Anon, Cricket and cricketers, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 151, January 1892, pp.96-113
141. Edwardes, C., The new football mania, Nineteenth Century, vol. 32, 1892, pp.622-31
142. Creston, Football, Fortnightly Review, vol. 55, January 1894, pp.25-38
143. Ensor, E., This football madness, Contemporary Review, vol. 74, November 1898, pp.751-60
144. Jackson, N.L., Professionalism and sport, Fortnightly Review, vol. 67, January 1900, pp.154-61
145. Hutchinson, H., The parlous condition of cricket, National Review, vol. 35, July 1900, pp.789-99
146. Anon, The game of billiards, Quarterly Review, vol. 193, April 1901, pp.482-98
147. Sturdee, R.J., The ethics of football, Westminster Review, vol. 59, February 1903, pp.180-85
148. Anon, Some tendencies in modern sport, Quarterly Review, vol. 199, January 1904, pp.127-52
Part 3: Betting and Gambling
149. Cadogan, The state of the turf, Fortnightly Review, vol. 37, January 1885, pp.105-15
150. Smart, H., The present state of the turf, Fortnightly Review, vol. 38, October 1885, pp.531-43
151. Anon, Horse-racing, Quarterly Review, vol. 161, October 1885, pp.441-69
152. Day, W., Turf reform, Fortnightly Review, vol. 45, 1889, pp.819-32
153. Magee, W.C. (Bishop of Peterborough), Betting, gambling and my critics, Fortnightly Review, vol. 46, December 1889, pp.754-63
154. Runciman, J., The ethics of the turf, Contemporary Review, Contemporary Review, vol. 55, April 1889, pp.603-21
155. Stutfield, G.H., Modern gambling, Nineteenth Century, vol. 26, November 1889, pp.840-60
156. Day, W., The evil of betting and how to eradicate it, Fortnightly Review, vol. 47, March 1890, pp.343-60
157. Oliphant, The ethics of gambling, Westminster Review, vol. 137, May 1892, pp.518-27
158. Horsley, Our sporting zadkiels, New Review, vol. 9, November 1893, pp.515-25
159. Hawke, Our principles and programme, New Review, vol. 10, June 1894, pp.705-17
160. Anon, The art of gambling, Quarterly Review, vol. 204, April 1906, pp.461-80

Volume V: British Sport and the Wider World
Part 1: International Sport
161. Cooper, J.A., An Anglo-Saxon Olympiad, Nineteenth Century, vol. 32, September 1892, pp.380-88
162. Cooper, J.A., The Pan-Brittanic Gathering, Nineteenth Century, vol. 34, July 1893
163. Jope-Slade, R.,The story of the America Cup, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 154, August 1893, pp.189-98
164. Grenfell, W.H., Oxford v Yale, Fortnightly Review, vol. 56, September 1894, pp.368-82
165. Cooper, J.A., Americans and the Pan-Britannic movement, Nineteenth Century, vol. 38, September 1895, pp.426-41
166. Thomson, B., The great international cricket match, New Review, vol.13, October 1895, pp.398-410
167. Robertson, G.S. , The Olympic Games, Fortnightly Review, vol. 59, June 1896, pp.944-57
168. Dale, T.F., Polo and politics, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 165, June 1899, pp.1032-36
169. Baillie-Grohman, W.A., Rifle shooting as a national sport, Nineteenth Century, vol. 46, September 1899, pp367-82
170. Woodgate, W.B., International boat racing, Nineteenth Century, vol. 50, September 1901, pp.439-48
171. Osborn, E.B., New Zealand Football, Nineteenth Century, vol. 59, January 1906, pp.107-13
172. Sewell, E.H.D., Rugby football and the colonial tours

Are American sports in jeopardy? Maybe so, unless greed can be controlled, the author of this unique book about sports in the United States concludes. In drawing this conclusion, Glenn Ferguson has explored media impact, education, relevant history, rules, discrimination, and even team nicknames before proceeding in depth with the specific fascination and blemishes of the major sports--baseball, football, basketball and track--with emphasis on college and professional levels. For the minor sports, tennis, ice hockey, swimming, golf and soccer are examined. Coverage of modern summer and winter Olympics stresses lifestyle, monetary awards, television, and foreign perceptions of the United States. Not wanting to overlook anything, the author devotes a final chapter to the avocations of hunting and lawn care. GLENN FERGUSON served as President of four universities (Long Island, Clark, Connecticut, and the American University of Paris); Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and President and founder of Equity for Africa. He was an Associate Director of the Peace Corps in Washington, and the first Director in Thailand. He was also the first Director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA); American Ambassador to Kenya (Arthur Flemming Award); and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. As an Air Force Psychological Warfare Officer, he served in Korea and the Philippines. Since his retirement, Ambassador Ferguson, and his wife Patti, have resided in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he has written five books relating to travel, religion, essays, aphorism and sports. He received two degrees from Cornell University and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Discover baseball's role in American society! Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's involvement in virtually every important social development in the United Statespast and present. Baseball and American Culture examines baseball's unique role as a sociological touchstone, presenting scholarly essays that explore the game as a microcosm for American societygood and bad. Topics include the struggle for racial equality, women's role in society, immigration, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, the limitations of baseball as a metaphor, and suicide. Contributing authors include Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, and a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George Grella, Dave Ogden, Roberta Newman, Brian Carroll, Richard Puerzer, and the editor himself. Baseball and American Culture features 23 essays on this fascinating subject, including: On Fenway, Faith, and Fandom: A Red Sox Fan Reflects Baseball and Blacks: A Loss of Affinity, A Loss of Community The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology Writing Their Way Home: American Writers and Baseball God and the Diamond: The Born-Again Baseball Autobiography Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is an essential read for baseball fans and historians, academics involved in sports literature and popular culture, and students of American society.

First textbook in the literature to treat sustainability as a powerful concept to create optimal workplace experiences FM is a growth area and this book pushes the boundaries to teach sustainability in a new way Most other textbooks dedicated to this topic focus on describing specific best practices or case studies, that is simply not enough to take the next step in truly integrating sustainability in the facility management industry. This book seeks to do that.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia. It addresses a wide range of issues central to sport in the context of Asian culture, politics, economy and society. The book explores diverse topics, including the history of traditional Asian sport; the rise of modern sport in Asia; the Olympic Movement in Asia; mega sport events in Asia; sport governance and policy; gender, class and ethnicity in Asian sport, and Asia's sporting heroes and heroines. With contributions from 74 leading international scholars, it offers a new perspective on understanding Asian sport and society, telling the story of how sport in this mega-region is coming together and reshaping the world in the process. It also provides readers with a wide lens through which to better contextualise the relationships between Asia and the world within the global sport community. The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia is a vital resource for students and scholars studying the history, politics, sociology, culture and policy of sport in Asia, as well as sport management, sport history, sport sociology, and sport policy and politics. It is also valuable reading for those working in international sport organisations.

The relationship between media and sport has become of particular interest to media scholars over the last decade. As the significance of sport itself has grown in a variety of other disciplines, the study of the ways in which media and sport interact across boundaries can be found in literature on the sociology of sport, history of sport, gender studies, cultural studies, journalism, leisure studies and beyond. For scholars interested in the media in particular, sport can shed light on a range of issues central to media studies. This book focuses on the sport-media phenomenon and analyses such issues as new media technology, gender, ethnicity, collective identity and globalization, as well as aspects of the political economy of the media.

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world sport - now a phenomenon of global significance.

Don Titcomb is the last of the great horseshoe pitchers from the 1950s-early 1960s era. The quality of pitching in this era performed in the out of doors was incredible. This book tells about Don's life, his game and his way. He has lived his life in pursuit of perfection in pitching and in the art of promoting the game he dearly loves. Along the way Don tells how to improve your game and how to help our sport grow.

Lawrence, an economist, football fan, and official, is an authoritative and astute critic of what is wrong with football in higher education as regulated by the NCAA. Lawrence believes the NCAA has become a cartel that keeps expenses low by rewarding the players almost nothing comparable to their contribution. . . . This is not the book for a novice interested in the razzle-dazzle of sports, but it is highly recommended for one who wants to understand the present situation and efforts, some misguided, to control the sport. Lawrence makes an in-depth analysis of the symbiotic relationship between football, the NCAA, and academia. The most valuable part of the book is that Lawrence, after carefully defining the situation, suggests some solutions. "Choice"

"Unsportsmanlike Conduct" is the first single source to trace the history of the 80-year old National Collegiate Athletic Association and to explain its growth from a small group seeking safer football rules to the large powerful regulatory body that it is today. This volume not only provides a unique view, but also an economic analysis of the college athletic industry. The author examines the development of American college football since the late 1800s and shows how the NCAA has turned intercollegiate football into a multi-million dollar industry. By viewing the structure of this organization from an economic perspective, he demonstrates that the NCAA has acted like many other collusive groups of producers in order to maximize their financial interests by exploiting consumers, employees, and particularly athletes.

This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform process in 1978 to the present, focusing on the period after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It analyses how this system has shaped domestic social class identities and its role in international Chinese state politics. Despite advances in the marketization of the sports industry through previous eras, the Chinese state expanded investment in a set of global sports following the heavily government-directed drive towards national success at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. This would be a time when the government focused on policies set to service a growing domestic middle-class and an increasingly wide-ranging set of international interests, with sporting investments being at the heart of their strategic plan. However, reform has proven difficult. The book presents a well-rounded account of this effort with tennis and soccer providing important case studies of the internal and external dynamics of this time. As such, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of globalization of sport, those studying East Asian sports development, and those who are interested in understanding China more broadly.

Develop the untapped possibilities of this potential tourist El Dorado Given its size, location, cultural attractions, and natural beauty, South America gets far less of the international tourist dollar than it deserves. This valuable book identifies and explores the major issues that influence and shape tourism in South America. Tourism in South America includes original empirical research into the image people have of this varied continent, the factors that draw people to visit South America, and the fears, lack of knowledge, and negative images that can keep tourists away.Tourism in South America examines current practices and suggests alternative models of development. Its informative discussions range from cultural tourism to sustainable tourism to developing human resources. The original empirical research in this volume offers unique insights, and reference notes are included.The reader will encounter varied points of view in Tourism in South America. You can expect to: view Australian travel industry perspectives on Latin American tourism explore the impact of tourism on the Argentina's Patagonian Coast examine the environmental tactics that Mexican and Jamaican hotel companies employ survey the recreation preferences of hikers in a Colombian National Park ponder the implications of performing traditional dances for modern tourists in the AmazonTour operators, hotel managers, local tourism boards, and others seeking the attention of tourists will profit from the new strategies and original research presented in Tourism in South America.

Develop the untapped possibilities of this potential tourist El Dorado Given its size, location, cultural attractions, and natural beauty, South America gets far less of the international tourist dollar than it deserves. This valuable book identifies and explores the major issues that influence and shape tourism in South America. Tourism in South America includes original empirical research into the image people have of this varied continent, the factors that draw people to visit South America, and the fears, lack of knowledge, and negative images that can keep tourists away. Tourism in South America examines current practices and suggests alternative models of development. Its informative discussions range from cultural tourism to sustainable tourism to developing human resources. The original empirical research in this volume offers unique insights, and reference notes are included. The reader will encounter varied points of view in Tourism in South America.You can expect to: view Australian travel industry perspectives on Latin American tourism explore the impact of tourism on the Argentina's Patagonian Coast examine the environmental tactics that Mexican and Jamaican hotel companies employ survey the recreation preferences of hikers in a Colombian National Park ponder the implications of performing traditional dances for modern tourists in the Amazon Tour operators, hotel managers, local tourism boards, and others seeking the attention of tourists will profit from the new strategies and original research presented in Tourism in South America.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties - 1914 - FOREWORD - As this book is written for boys of all ages, it has been divided under two general heads, The Tomahawk Camps and The Axe Camps, that is, camps which may be built with no tool but a hatchet, and camps that will need the aid of an axe. The smallest boys can build some of the simple shelters and the older boys can build the more difficult ones. The reader may, if he likes, begin with the first of the book, build his way through it, and graduate by building the log houses in doing this he will be closely following the history of the human race, because ever since our arboreal ancestors with prehensile toes scampered among the branches of the pre-glacial forests and built nestlike shelters in the trees, men have made themselves shacks for a temporary refuge. But as one of the members of the Camp-Fire Club of America, as one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, and as the founder of the Boy Pioneers of America, it would not be proper for the author to admit for one moment that there can be such a thing as a camp without a camp-fire, and for that reason the tree folks and the missing link whose remains were found in Java, and to whom the scientists gave the aweinspiring name of Pithecanthropus erectus, cannot be counted as campers, because they did not know how to build a camp fire neither can we admit the ancient maker of stone implements, called eoliths, to be one of us, because he, too, knew not the joys of a camp-fire. But there was another fellow, called the Neanderthal man, who lived in the ice age in Europe and he had to be a camp-fire man or freeze As far as we know, he was the first man to build a camp-fire. The cold weathermade him hustle, and hustling developed him. True, he did cook and eat his neighbors once in a while, and even split their bones for the marrow but we will forget that part and just remember him as the first camper in Europe. Recently a pygmy skeleton was discovered near Los Angeles which is claimed to be about twenty thousand years old, but we do not know whether this man knew how to build a fire or not. We do know, however, that the American camper was here on this continent when our Bible was yet an unfinished manuscript and that he was building his fires, toasting his venison, and building sheds when the red-headed Eric settled in Greenland, when Thorwald fought with the Skraelings, and Bi arnis dragon ship made the trip down the coast of Vineland about the dawn of the Christian era. We also know that the American camper was here when Columbus with his comical toy ships was blundering around the West Indies. We also know that the American camper watched Henry Hudson steer the Half Moo around Manhattan Island. I t is this same American camper who has taught Foreword ix us to build many of the shacks to be found in the following pages...

Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume. They each shared the same ambition: to free women's bodies through sport. Scholars have studied the paradoxical importance of sport in both reinforcing the male-dominated status quo and emancipating women from traditional repression in both Western and Eastern worlds, but the role that individuals played in achieving the political and economic freedom of women through sport has been neglected. This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.

In the 19th century, Europe exported its politics, goods, ideas, customs - and not least, its sports, to the rest of the world. This imperialism began a process of cultural diffusion in which sport became a cultural bond, moral metaphor and political symbol. It was a two-way process, for as soon as the world beyond Europe became known to the Europeans, sports from other parts of the world entered Europe. The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture.