Organizing material for a book on a subject, like high school basketball in Illinois, that has been done before is difficult enough. Obviously, you are anxious to research new historical […]
Category: sports history
Don’t wait until next year
For the past three years my oldest son and I have played hooky in July or August to attend a weekday Cubs game at Wrigley Field. We typically park north of […]
Bell in the Daily Herald
The July 14, 2010, edition of Chicago’s Daily Herald includes Marty Maciaszek’s feature on Taylor Bell’s new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois. “… the first person Bell […]
TLS reviews “Golf in America”
The May 21 issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes David Goldblatt’s favorable review of George Kirsch’s recent book Golf in America. “Kirsch delivers excellent pen portraits of the great, good […]
Viva baseball, just not in Arizona
Two years ago this month we published the Third Edition of Samuel O. Regalado’s book Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, which chronicles the struggles of Latin American […]
Christian Science Monitor on Tiger
George Kirsch, author of the book Golf in America, was consulted by the Christian Science Monitor for its story on Tiger’s return to the Masters. “[The Tiger scandal] raises the […]
To the Editor of the Sunday Book Review:
George Kirsch, author of Golf in America, wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review to correct the record on Woodrow Wilson’s golf routine: Actually, after the first few […]
Tiger Woods and the evolution of Golf in America
George Kirsch, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Golf in America, comments on Tiger Woods and the history of golf in the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog. […]
Baseball Digest interviews Jennifer Ring
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, was interviewed by Baseball Digest. BBD: Why do you think Ken Burns gave women’s baseball very […]
Inside Higher Ed profiles “College Football”
Kurt Edward Kemper, author of the new book College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era, was interviewed in today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed. Q: At institutions like Louisiana […]
Oriard new in The League
Michael Oriard, author of the recent reissue The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football, contributed his first piece this week to The Washington Post‘s “The League” column. A major […]
The L.A. Times and Jennifer Ring, together at Dodger Stadium
The Sports section in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times included a feature on Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. There we sat, up […]