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The Architecture of the Playing Field
Shaping Space in Sport
University of Texas Press
A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes’ creativity and spectators’ evolving experiences of sport.
Sports through the Lens
Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
University of Texas Press
The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
Edited by Jonathan Silverman
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.
The Olympics that Never Happened
Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth
By Adam Berg
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mr. America
The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
By John D. Fair
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
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.
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