Links to General Sports Sites
If you're looking for sites on a specific sport, you'll find links in the document(s) covering that sport. This page contains links to sites that cover sports in general, large groups of sports, or special sports history topics.
- Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles--A terrific resource. The virtual archive section includes hundreds of PDF files with articles from scholarly journals and official Olympic reports.
- The British Society of Sports History--The BSSH home page, obviously UK oriented, but it contains some interesting papers and links to many other sites.
- North American Society for Sport History--Primarily of interest to members, though the list of scholars may be of use at times.
- Smithsonian Institution Sports History--This is a page of links to sports history areas on the Smithsonian's web site, with photos of some of the Smithsonian's sports memorabilia.
- The Sporting News Archive--There's a lot of interesting stuff here, including histories of the World Series, Super Bowl, and other championships; features on great moments in sports history; scrapbooks devoted to several famous athletes; and an on-line almanac
- The Sporting News Archive--There's a lot of interesting stuff here, including histories of the World Series, Super Bowl, and other championships; features on great moments in sports history; scrapbooks devoted to several famous athletes; and an on-line almanac
- Sports Illustrated Vault--Every Sports Illustrated issue is on line here. Even the one that contains my article about the Duluth Eskimos.
- U.S. Olympic Committee--You can use the pull-down menu labeled "Olympic/Pan Am Sports" to find information on every Olympic sport.