Research Interests

20th Century U. S. , Cultural History, Sport History

Publications

Books

• Melbourne Village: The First Twenty-Five Years. University of Central Florida Press, 1988.
• Baseball: America's Diamond Mind, 1919-1941. Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1980.

Articles/Essays

• “Retrospective Review, Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and his Legacy, 25th Anniversary Edition by Jules Tygiel,” Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, volume 1, number 2, Fall, 2008, 106-108.
• “Remembering Jules Tygiel,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2008, 93-97
• “The End of a Beautiful Relationship,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2008, 20-22
• “Forum: Law and Order: Sport and the Warren Burgher Court, The Flood Case.” Journal of Sport History, Volume 34, No. 2 (Summer 2007), 183-191
• "The View from Left Field: Recapturing Cubdom," Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol.22, No.1, 2005, pp. 24-25.
• "A Decade of Commenting on Baseball: The Ridiculous and the Sublime." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003, 44-63.
• "The View from Left Field: The Joy of Futility," Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2003, 6-7.
• Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, XX, no.1, Fall, 2002. Twentieth Anniversary Issue devoted entirely to a collection of commentary on Sport and Society consisting of 83 essays written between 1991 to 2001.
• "Ali, No One Better Known, No One More Admired," de Sportwereld, No. 28, 2002, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, p. 8.
• "The Importance of Being Major League: The Cultural Roots of Public Stadia Financing in the USA," Sport and Politics-The Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, July 14-19,1999, Budapest, Hungary.
• "If I Were Commissioner." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspective, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1997.
• "An Evening with Michael in the Minors." Elysian Fields, 1994-5.
• "Fan Notes, 1993." NINE: A Journal of Baseball and Social Policy Perspective, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1994, 387-390.
• (Coauthored) "The Eddie Scissons Syndrome." Aethlon, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1991, 175-184.
• "Coover's Grand Slam." Aethlon, Vol. VII, No. 1, 1989, 113-120.
• "Baseball Immortality &Ray Dandridge." Baseball History, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1987/1988, 63-64.
• "The Jake Powell Incident and the Press." Baseball History, I, 2, 1986, 32-46.
• "Not the Cincinnati Reds: Anti-Communism in Recent Baseball Literature." Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, Vol. I, No. 1, 1983, 87-97.
• "Pearl Harbor: A Failure for Baseball," Journal of Popular Culture XV, No. 4, 1982, 67-74.
• "Sport, Heroes, and Myth." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 4, No. 2, 1980, 23-31.
• "A Step Over the Edge: The Image of Sport in Thomas Klise's The Last Western." Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 1979.
• "Punt or Bunt: A Note on Sport in American Culture." Journal of Sport History III, 1976, 205-212. reprinted in Sport Sociology: Contemporary Themes, 2nd Ed., Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1979.
• "Urban and Rural Images in Baseball." Journal of Popular Culture IX, 1975, 315-324.

Book Sections/Chapters

• Introduction to Baseball in America and America in Baseball: The Webb Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures. Texas A&M University Press for the University of Texas, Arlington: College Station, Texas, 2008.
• "The Civil Rights Movement: Race and Civil Society," Chapter in American Society: Essays on History and Culture, edited by A.A. Maslennikova, G. Garvey, and A.V. Zelenschikov. St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg State University Publishing House, 2007.
• "Hockey Internationale." Putting it on Ice, Volume II: Internationalizing Canada's Game, The Grosebrook Research Institute, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (2003) 133-4.
• "Babe Ruth and the Feature Film: The Muddling of a Myth," in Reel Baseball, McFarland and Company Inc: Jefferson, NC, 2003.
• "The Uncertainty of History, in One for the Higger: Jack Higgs, A Man for All Seasons, East Tennessee State University and Sport Literature Association Publication, 81-90.
• "Where Have you Gone Frank Meriwell" in American Sport Culture: The Humanistic Dimension. The Bucknell University Press: Lewisberg Pensylvania, 1985.

Awards

• Named Honorary Director of the American Center, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia, November 11, 2008.
• Lecture on American Exceptionalism, Russian Institute for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. November 11, 2008
• Lecture on U.S. Russian Relations, Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, November 13, 2008.
• Participant and Guest Speaker for the Tenth Anniversary of the American Center, Udmurdt State University, Izhevsk, Russia, November 17-21, 2008.
• Presenter at Keynote Session at the Conference on International Exchanges, Udmurdt State Univeristy, Izhevsk, Russia, November 16, 2008.
• North American Society for Sport History, NASSH Service Award, presented for continuous distinguished service to the organization. May, 2004.
• Lecturer at Institute for the Study of Sport, "The Business of Sport in America," De Montforte University, Leicester, England, November 18, 2002.
• Keynote Speaker, NINE Conference on Baseball, Tucson Arizona, March, 2001.
• Guest Lecturer, The Chicago Symposium Series on Sport and Culture, Sponsored by the Newberry Library and the History
• Department of Northeastern Illinois, October, 2001,Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. Consultant and Lecturer. May, 1993 to present.

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