Bibliography
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These are books that I've consulted most often through the years while researching sports history and biography. Many of them are out of print, but I've included links to Amazon and Alibris, both of which often have used copies. For books still in print, I've usually included links only to Amazon.
Reference Books
Arlott, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to Sports and Games. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Hickok, Ralph. The Encyclopedia of North American Sports History. New York: Facts on File, 2002 (2nd ed.)
Hickok, Ralph. The New Encyclopedia of Sports. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
Levinson, David, and Karen Christensen, eds. Encyclopedia of World Sport. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Menke, Frank G. The Encyclopedia of Sports. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1978, sixth revised edition.
General Sports History
Baker, William J. Sports in the Western World. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 1988, revised edition.
Baker, William, J., and John M. Carroll, eds. Sports in Modern America. St. Louis: River City, 1981.
Betts, John R. America's Sporting Heritage, 1850-1950. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1974.
Guttmann, Allen. From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Guttmann, Allen. A Whole New Ballgame: An Interpretation of American Sports. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origin of Ball Games. University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Howell, Nancy, and Max L. Howell. Sports and Games in Canadian Life: 1700 to the Present. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1969.
Kirsch, George B., ed; Sports in North America: A Documentary History. Academic International Press.
Krout, John A. Annals of American Sport. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929.
Lucas, John A., and Ronald A. Smith. Saga of American Sport. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1978.
Rader, Benjamin G. American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990, second edition.
Riess, Steven A., The American Sporting Experience: A Historical Anthology of Sport in America. Champaign, IL: Leisure Press, 1984.
Riess, Steven A., City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports. University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Spivey, Donald, ed. Sport in America: New Historical Perspectives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Regional & Period Sports History
Adelman, Melvin L. A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modem Athletics, 1820-70. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Brailsford, Dennis. British Sport: A Social History. Rowman and Littlefield, 1993.
Brailsford, Dennis. Sport and Society: Elizabeth to Anne. London: Routledge, & Kegan Paul, 1969.
Brailsford, Dennis. Sport, Time and Society: The British at Play. London: Routledge, & Kegan Paul, 1991.
Brailsford, Dennis. A Taste for Diversions: Sport in Georgian England. Lutterworth Press, 2001.
Carson, Jane. Colonial Virginians at Play. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1965.
Hardy, Stephen. How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation and Community 1865-1915. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1982.
Henderson, Robert W,, Early American Sport: A Checklist of Books by American and Foreign Authors Published in America Prior to 1860, Including Sporting Songs. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1976, third edition.
Metcalfe, Alan. Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.
Riess, Steven A., et al, eds., Sport in Industrial America 1850-1920. Harlan Davidson, 1995.
Smith, Ronald A. Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big Time College Athletics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Somers, Dale A. The Rise of Sports in New Orleans, 1850-1900. Baton Rouge; Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
Multi-Sports History
Brown, W. A. Nigel. Ice-Skating: A History. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1959.
Emrich, Linn. The Complete Book of Sky Sports. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Flower, Raymond. The Story of Skiing and Other Winter Sports. New York: Methuen, 1977.
Heller, Mark, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ice Skating. New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Liebers, Arthur. The Complete Book of Water Sports. New York: Coward-McCann, 1972, revised edition.
Liebers, Arthur. The Complete Book of Winter Sports. New York: Coward-McCann, 1971.
Sparano, Vin T. Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia. New York: Harper and Row, 1980, second edition.
Squires, Dick. The OTHER Racquet Sports. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
Health, Physical Education, & Recreation
Dulles, Foster Rhea. America Learns to Play: A History of Popular Recreation, 1607-1940. New York: AppletonCentury, 1940.
Van Dalen, Bruce B., and Bruce L. Bennett. A World History of Physical Education. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971, second edition.
Zeigler, Earle E, ed. A History of Sport and Physical Education to 1900 (Selected Topics). Champaign, IL: Stipes, 1973.
Collective Biography
Hickok, Ralph. A Who's Who of Sports Champions: Their Stories and Records. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Porter, David L., ed. Biographical Dictionary Of American Sports: Basketball and Other Indoor Sports. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Porter, David L., ed. Biographical Dictionary Of American Sports: Football. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Porter, David L., ed. Biographical Dictionary Of American Sports: Outdoor Sports. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Porter, David L., ed. Biographical Dictionary Of American Sports: 1992-1995 Supplement for Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Other Sports. New York: Greenwood Press, 1995.
The Business of Sports
Berry, Robert C., William B. Gould, and Paul B. Staudohar. Labor Relations in Professional Sports. Dover, MA: Auburn House, 1986.
Lineberry, William P., ed. The Business of Sports. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1973.
Noll, Roger G., ed. Government and the Sports Business. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 1974.