""The stimulating ideas presented make this essential reading for all those interested in how sports history will fare in the digital age. The contributors, some cautious, others more polemic, discuss the limits and possibilities of digitized knowledge and assess the challenges and opportunities offered by digital technology.""--Wray Vamplew, co-author of Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol ""A digital revolution has already altered much of what sport historians do, from archival research to classroom pedagogy and options for publication, to attaining the rewards of professional advancement. But is it creating different tools for doing the same old work, or is the work itself being transformed? The question is unavoidable - avoiding it is its own response - but the answers aren't obvious. These instructive and provocative essays offer a timely guide to issues that will shape the future of the discipline.""--Michael Oriard, author of Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era ""Reading the essays in this book opened me up to an unexpectedly broad array of ways to use internet tools and resources for both scholarship and teaching. It is a timely--indeed prescient--addition to the scholarship in the field and will likely be the standard text in this area for many years.""--Susan Birrell, co-editor of Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation ""Taking a very balanced approach and careful not to pass judgment without adequate evidence, the editors make clear that there are advantages and disadvantages to using digital tools and that the engagement with digital history ultimately raises important methodological questions and concerns. A truly significant contribution to the field. The first volume of its kind.""--David K. Wiggins, author of Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes
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