Interpreting Sports at Museums and Historic Sites provides a step-by-step guide for museums and historic sites developing an interpretive plan inclusive of sports.
Featuring a new preface by the author, this book looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic and personal landscape for girls and young women. Filled with interviews from female athletes of all ages, this book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more corporate, to the detriment of participants.
George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture
The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. Patrick Moser places Freeth's inspiring life story ......
This book draws on Catherine Malabou's work on plasticity, investigating the transformative power of sport both in its ability to positively shape and, conversely, to destroy. Foschia positions sport as the ontological and discursive force that shapes how we work, watch, and play
The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier
In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays.
A Guide for Pushiking America's Diverse Trails with Mobility Chairs and
This book showcases some of the greatest trails across the US that can be completed while pushiking-hiking with someone in a wheelchair, mobility chair, or stroller. Part narrative, part guidebook, this book validates that anyone can experience the natural landscapes our country has to offer, no matter what mobility challenges they may face.
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition analyzes the relationship between endurance sports and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors write from a scholarly viewpoint but also informed through their own endurance sport participation.
In Pinnacle on the Mound, ten Cy Young Award winners-pitchers recognized as the very best at their craft-share amusing anecdotes and valuable insight about their keys to success. From Jim Lonborg to Corey Kluber, their fascinating stories represent 50 years of baseball history.
To Heaven's Heights is an eclectic collection of ski stories from world famous authors from Leni Riefenstahl to Garrison Keiller, by way of Ian Fleming and Bill Bryson. Spanning one thousand years and with contributions from well over a hundred authors, the anthology celebrates skiing as a means of transport, communication, hunting, exploring, and ......
