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Sports through the Lens

Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs

University of Texas Press
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Astros and Asterisks

Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained

University of Texas Press

An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Olympics that Never Happened

Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth

University of Texas Press

A look back at how powerful politicians, business leaders, and a diverse cast of activists used a thwarted Olympics to shape the state of Colorado and the city of Denver.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Roller Derby

The History of an American Sport

University of Texas Press

The dynamic and culturally complex story of roller derby, the only full-contact sport in the United States that has embraced women as equal competitors since its inception.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Myth of the Amateur

A History of College Athletic Scholarships

University of Texas Press

A deft examination of the controversy over paying men and women college athletes, which persuasively argues that, for all the NCAA’s insistence on amateurism today, college sports have never been amateur.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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No Way but to Fight

George Foreman and the Business of Boxing

University of Texas Press

The first biography of the heavyweight boxing champion, preacher, and celebrity pitchman who fought his way out of urban poverty and through the venal world of prizefighting to make it in America.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Strength Coaching in America

A History of the Innovation That Transformed Sports

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive history of the social shifts and scientific discoveries that transformed weight lifting from a scorned folly to the ultimate game changer for professional athletes.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Harvey Penick

The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf

By Kevin Robbins; Introduction by Ben Crenshaw
University of Texas Press

This biography of legendary golf pro Harvey Penick, which won the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, reveals how he distilled a lifetime of coaching on and off the course into the best-selling sports book of all time, Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Dopers in Uniform

The Hidden World of Police on Steroids

University of Texas Press

Breaking down the “Blue Wall of Silence,” this landmark book investigates the widespread, illegal use of anabolic steroids in major urban police departments and how it contributes to excessive violence in American policing.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Mr. America

The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon

University of Texas Press

Drawing on unique archival documents and fascinating interviews, an acclaimed sports historian delivers the first comprehensive examination of Mr. America, the iconic bodybuilding contest that honored ancient ideals while defining masculinity during the c

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Drug Games

The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008

By Thomas M. Hunt; Introduction by John Hoberman
University of Texas Press

Based on research in both American and foreign archives, this first book-length study of doping in the Olympics connects the use and regulation of performance-enhancing drugs to developments in the larger global environment.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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