Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass...

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Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer

No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil’s people, politicians, and poets have fou...

6:52 AM

The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive h...

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Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal CoachingOpportunity in the NFL

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African ...

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The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First AfricanAmerican Champion

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in Sept...

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The Complete Muhammad Ali

Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Al...

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Black and White: The Way I See It

He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The fathe...

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Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To TalkAbout It

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every dist...

3:38 PM

The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and PredominantlyWhite NCAA Institutions

The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between Black athletes and predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (P...

3:31 PM

Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle

Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from sla...

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White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs(Racism in American Institutions)

Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. Ho...

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Halifax Champion: Black Power in Gloves

When boxing was in its prime and race relations were at the fore, Dave Downey became a Halifax champion In the 1960s and 1970s, boxing w...

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Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero

He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding....

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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field

When he was picked in the seventh-round of 1999 NFL draft, Donald Driver couldn’t find Green Bay on a map. He was given little chance of ...

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The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling

Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second Louis-Schmeling fight sparked excitement around the globe. For all its length-the fig...

9:06 AM

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing. You saw only a part of me. After I ret...

11:21 AM

Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football

Even the most casual sports fans celebrate the achievements of professional athletes, among them Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Lo...

9:43 AM

One-Eyed Baz: The True Story of Barrington 'Zulu' Patterson, One of Britain's Most Fearsome Hard Men

Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, his tormentors called him 'One Eye' or 'Cyclops'; it could have instilled a vi...

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Counterpunch: Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring

Spanning the period between 1967 and 2005, this compilation includes 84 of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ira Berkow’s columns on boxing. R...

7:36 AM

One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, And The Myth Of The Heavyweight Title

One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, And The Myth Of The Heavyweight Title

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