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Sports and American Culture Series
Bruce Clayton, Editor
This spirited series explores sports in relation to the main currents of American culture. The series, which will include biographies, autobiographies, and team histories, as well as explorations of exciting eras, events, and moments, will address the issues of race, gender, ethnicity, class, immigration, urban life, and the revolutionary role of the media in the contemporary presentation of sports.Volumes currently available in the series:
America's First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904, by George R. Matthews
Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis, by Jon David Cash
The Curt Flood Story: The Man behind the Myth by Stuart L. Weiss
Elston and Me: The Story of the First Black Yankee, by Arlene Howard, with Ralph Wimbish.
I Hid It under the Sheets: Growing Up with Radio by Gerald Eskenazi
Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood by Fred Hobson
Outside Shooter: A Memoir, by Philip Raisor
The St. Louis Baseball Reader by Richard Peterson
Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri, by Roger D. Launius
Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball's Forgotten Great, by Rick Huhn
Spitting on Diamonds: A Spitball Pitcher's Journey to the Major Leagues, 1911–1919, by Clyde H. Hogg
Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies, by James W. Pipkin
Sportsmen and Gamesmen, by John Dizikes
Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter, by Gerald Eskenazi
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