Sports Through the Lens

Maureen M. Smith is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Sacramento and the co-author of (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph. Daniel A. Nathan is a professor of American studies at Skidmore College and the author of Saying It's So. Sarah K. Fields is a professor of communication at the University of Colorado Denver and the author of Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation and Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America.

Introduction 1. The Making of a Non-Iconic Sports Photograph: John Hemment's Salvator v. Tenny (Jonathan Finn) 2. The Slide: Ty Cobb Steals Third (Neil McCabe) 3. The Long Count: Dempsey and Tunney (Elliott J. Gorn) 4. "Some Are Easy and Some Are Tough--That's All There Is to It": Nickolas Muray's Portrait of Babe Ruth (Edmund F. Wehrle) 5. Woman in White with an Outstretched Arm: Helene Mayer, 1936 (Allen Guttmann) 6. The Odd Couple: Althea Gibson and Alice Marble, Forest Hills, 1950 (Ashley Brown) 7. Willie Mays and the Catch Heard \`Round the World (George Gmelch and Howard De Nike) 8. Jackie Robinson: Safe at Home (Maureen M. Smith) 9. Alan Ameche from the One: The 1958 NFL Championship Game (Daniel A. Nathan) 10. The Moment of Truth: Ali-Liston II (Carlo Rotella) 11. When Push Came to Shove: Kathrine Switzer, Jock Semple, and the Boston Marathon (Susan Ware) 12. Perched Valor: The Black Power Photograph That Exposed Injustice and Transformed Generations (Terry Anne Scott) 13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Broadway Joe: Joe Namath in Fort Lauderdale, 1969 (Travis Vogan) 14. Secretariat at the Belmont (Jonathan Silverman) 15. "Henderson Has Scored for Canada": Photographing Canadian Nationalism (Russell Field) 16. U.S. vs. Them: American Nationalism and Sports Illustrated's Famous Cover Image of The Miracle on Ice (Chris Elzey) 17. Time Stamping Centre Court: Borg at Wimbledon (Michael Butterworth) 18. The Art of Fernando Valenzuela: Baseball and Chicanx Culture in California (Bernardo Ramirez Rios) 19. Michael Jordan at the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest: Liftoff for the NBA and Nike in the New Gilded Age (Sean Dinces) 20. Sovereign Celebration: Cathy Freeman, 1994 (Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond) 21. Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup (Sarah K. Fields) 22. Play Ball: Mo'ne Davis and the Visualization of Athletic Girlhood in Sports Illustrated (Samantha White) 23. To Dream Again: The Founding of NIFA and the First World Indigenous Women's Soccer Champions (Christine O'Bonsawin) 24. Kaepernick's ClichE (Timothy B. Spears) 25. The Hug: Finding A Community's Future on the Pitch (Amy Bass) Notes Acknowledgments Contributors Index

Thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening. I happily followed the writer wherever he or she led me-to the mechanics of taking the photo, or the context of the moment, or the artistic or compositional aspects of the picture. I consumed these varied, accessible essays in gulps, one or two at a time, with the afterimage of each captured moment burned on to my brainpan long after I'd set the book down. - Alexander Wolff, former senior writer, Sports Illustrated, and author of Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure Sports through the Lens is elegant in its simplicity of concept: Have various sports scholars each select a compelling sports photograph-iconic or obscure, from any sport, their choice-and write a short essay about its origin and impact. The result is a wonderful collection that is informative, accessible to the general reader, and engagingly written. Here is that rare anthology that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. - Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Boxing