Sports in Pennsylvania Web Extra: Expanded Bibliography
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Secondary Works
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Altherr, Thomas L. “‛The Most Summery, Bold, Free & Spacious Game’: Charles King Newcomb and Philadelphia Baseball, 1866-1871.” Pennsylvania History 52 (April 1985): 69-85.
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Bankes, Jim. The Pittsburgh Crawfords. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2001.
________. The Pittsburgh Crawfords: The Lives and Times of Black Baseball’s Most Exciting Team! Dubuque: William C. Brown, 1991.
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Benson, Michael. Ballparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Reference to Baseball Grounds, Yards and Stadiums, 1845 to Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 1989.
Bergstein, Mickey, and Paterno, Joe. Penn State Sports Stories and More. Harrisburg: RB Books, 2000.
Berlage, Gai Ingham. “Effa Manley, a Major Force in Negro Baseball in the 1930s and 1940s.” In Out of the Shadows: African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson, pp. 128-146. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Bevis, Charlie. Mickey Cochrane: The Life of a Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.
________. Sunday Baseball: The Major Leagues’ Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord’s Day, 1876-1934. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 2003.
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Black, Samuel W. “James A. Dorsey and the Support of Black Sport in Pittsburgh.” Western Pennsylvania History 87 (Winter 2004): 42-45.
Block, David. Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game. Lincooln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Bloom, John. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Bock, William Sauts Netamuxwe. “The Lena’pe Version of Spring Football, Spring of 1491.” Bucks County Panorama 19 (May 1977): 20-22.
Bonk, Daniel L. “Ballpark Figures: The Story of Forbes Field.” Pittsburgh History 76 (1993): 52-71.
________, and Martin, Len. “The First World Series & Its Pittsburgh Connections.” Western Pennsylvania History 86 (Fall 2003): 10-23.
Booher, Dennis Alan. “Joseph Vincent Paterno: Football Coach. His Involvement with the Pennsylvania State University and American Intercollegiate Football.” Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1985.
Brashler, William. Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
Britcher, Craig. “How a Baseball Card Reached the Big Leagues.” Western Pennsylvania History 87 (Winter 2004): 20-23.
Brynn, Soeren Stewart. “Some Sports in Pittsburgh During the National Period, 1775-1860.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 51 (October 1968): 345-363.
________. “Some Sports in Pennsylvania During the National Period, 1775-1860.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 52 (January 1969): 57-79.
Buono, A. J. “Fox-Hunt Tradition Has Wide Following In Chester County.” Pennsylvania Heritage 4 (March 1978): 19.
Burk, Robert F. Much More Than A Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball Since 1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
________. Never Just A Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball to 1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Byrne, Julie. O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Cahn, Susan K. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sport. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Callis, Tracy, et al. Philadelphia’s Boxing Heritage, 1876-1976. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
Campbell, Jim. Snyder County’s Sports Heritage. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Carroll, Brian. “Early Twentieth-Century Heroes: Coverage of Negro League Baseball in the Pittsbur gh Courier and The Chicago Defender.” Journalism History 32 (2006): 34-42.
Cashion, Ty. “Remembering the ‘Big 33.’” Sound Historian 2 (1994): 48-57.
Casway, Jerrold I. Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
Cataldi, Angelo, and Macnow, Glen. The Great Philadelphia Sports Debate. Middle Atlantic Press, 2004.
Chalberg, John C. “The Philadelphia Phillies: Abysmal Teams Provoke Inspired Writing.” Journal of Sport History 25 (1998): 328-331.
Chalk, Ocania. Black College Sport. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976.
Cicotello, David, and Louisa, Angelo, Jr., eds. Forbes Field: Essays and Memories of the Pirates’ Historic Ballpark, 1909-1971. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Ciotola, Nicholas P. “Fiddling Around: Leisure Activities in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties, 1790-1850.” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 99 (1997): 46-71.
________. “Franco’s Italian Army.” Western Pennsylvania History 84 (Winter 2001-02): 10-13.
________. “Soccer in Coal Country.” Western Pennsylvania History 87 (Winter 2004): 40-41.
________. “Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco’s Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972-1977.” Journal of Sport History 27 (2000): 271-289.
Clark, Dick, and Holway, John B. “Charleston No. 1 Star of 1921 Negro League.” Baseball Research Journal 14 (1985): 63-70.
Clark, William S. “The Beginnings of Football at Susquehanna University, 1890-1900.” Susquehanna University Studies 5 (1956): 263-276.
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Coenen, Craig R. From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Cook, William A. The Summer of ’64: A Pennant Lost. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2002.
Cotter, John L. “The History of Sporting America: Philadelphia Pastimes.” Expedition 2 (1985): 57-61.
Croak, Thomas M. “The Professionalization of Prizefighting: Pittsburgh at the Turn of the Century.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 62 (October 1979): 333-343.
Dabilis, Andy, and Tsiotos, Nick. The 1903 World Series: The Boston Americans, the Pittsburg Pirates, and the “First Championship of the United States.” Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2004.
Daniel, W. Harrison. Jimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 1996.
Deford, Frank. Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.
Denlinger, Ken. For the Glory: College Football Dreams and Realities Inside Paterno’s Program. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995.
DeValeria, Jeanne Burke, and DeValeria, Dennis. Honus Wagner: A Biography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Devine, Christopher. Harry Wright: The Father of Professional Baseball. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 2003.
Dewey, Donald, and Acocella, Nicholas. Total Ballclubs: The Ultimate Book of Baseball Teams. Toronto: Sport Media Publishing, Inc., 2005.
Diamond, Dan, ed. Total NHL: The Ultimate Source on the National Hockey League. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2003.
Didinger, Ray, and Lyons, Robert S. The Eagles Encyclopedia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005.
DiSalvatore, Bryan. A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.
Etter, Scott Charles. “From Atherton to Hetzel: A History of Intercollegiate Athletic Control at the Pennsylvania State College, 1887-1930.” Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1991.
Evensen, Bruce J. When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Fair, John D. “America’s Mecca for Muscle Builders.” Pennsylvania Heritage 25 (Spring 1999): 24-31.
________.“Fitness Innovation or Sexual Exploitation? Bob Hoffman and the Women Weightlifters of Muscletown, USA.” Sport History Review 30 (1999): 39-55.
________.“From Philadelphia to York: George Jowett, Mark Berry, Bob Hoffman, and the Rebirth of American Weightlifting, 1927-1936.” Iron Game History 4 (April 1996): 3-17.
________. Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Finoli, David, and Aikens, Tom. The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
Finoli, David, and Rainer, Bill. The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia. Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, Inc., 2003.
Fisher, Donald M. Lacrosse: A History of the Game. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Fitzpatrick, Frank. The Lion in Autumn: A Season with Joe Paterno and Penn State Football. Gotham, 2005.
________. You Can’t Lose ‘Em All: The Year the Phillies Finally Won the World Series. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001.
Fleming, David. Breaker Boys: The NFL’s Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship. New York: ESPN Books, 2007.
Forbes, Gordon. Tales from the Eagles Sidelines. Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2006.
Freligh, Sara. “Crews, Clubs and Clubhouses.” Pennsylvania Heritage 14 (Fall 1988): 22-29.
Fuller, Linda K. “The Sporting Life in Pennsylvania Caught On Celluloid.” Pennsylvania History 64 (1997): 543-458.
Gallagher, Robert C. “John Tener’s Brilliant Career.” Baseball Research Journal 19 (1990): 36-38.
Gavora, Jessica. Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002.
Gerlach, Larry R. “Baseball’s Other ‘Great Experiment’: Eddie Klep and the Integration of the Negro Leagues.” Journal of Sport History 25 (1998): 453-481.
Gill, Frank C., comp., with Hermann, William S., and Herrold, Dewey S. “A History of Sports in Snyder County.” Snyder County Historical Society Bulletin (1978): 17-33.
Goldberg, David L. “What Price Victory? What Price Honor? Pennsylvania and the Formation of the Ivy League, 1950-1952.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (1988): 227-248.
Gregorich, Barbara. “A Champion For All Seasons.” Pennsylvania Heritage 24 (Summer 1998): 4-9.
________. “Blues, Bloomers, and Bobbies.” Pennsylvania Heritage 19 (Summer 1993): 32-37.
Gudelunas, William, and Couch, Stephen R. “The Stolen Championship of the Pottsville Maroons: A Case Study in the Emergence of Modern Professional Football.” Journal of Sport History 9 (Spring 1982): 53-64.
Hagy, Ruth. “Leisure Time Activities in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1800-1850.” Pennsylvania Folklife 20 (Winter 1970-71): 42-48.
Hall, Alan W. “A History of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference: An Analysis of Selected Critical Issues and Incidents.” Ph.D. diss., University of Akron, 1984.
________. “Women in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference 1920-1977.” North American Society for Sport History, Proceedings and Newsletter (1984): 27-28.
Hall, Moss. Go Indians! Stories of the Great Indian Athletics of the Carlisle School. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1971.
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Hauck, Johnny. “World’s Famous Pugilists Box at the Fulton Opera House.” Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society (Trinity 1975): 142-149.
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Hilliard, Robert T. “Caged Perfection: The Story of Pittsburgh’s South Side Basketball Team.” Pittsburgh History 80 (Winter 1997-1998): 132-141.
Hittner, Arthur D. Honus Wagner: The Life of Baseball’s “Flying Dutchman.” Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1996.
Holway, John B. “Josh Gibson, The Heartbreak Kid.” Pennsylvania Heritage 20 (Fall 1994): 18-25.
Howell, Reet, ed. Her Story in Sport: A Historical Anthology of Women in Sports. West Point: Leisure Press, 1982.
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Huhn, Rick. Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Hult, Joan S., and Trekell, Marianna. A Century of Women’s Basketball: From Frailty to Final Four. Reston, VA: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1991.
Hyman, Jordan. Game of My Life Penn State: Memorable Stories of Nittany Lion Football. Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2006.
Jable, J. Thomas. “Pennsylvania’s Early Blue Laws: A Quaker Experiment in the Suppression of Sports and Amusements, 1682-1740.” Journal of Sport History 1 (1974): 107-122.
________. “Social Class and the Sport of Cricket in Philadelphia, 1850-1880.” Journal of Sport History 18 (Summer 1991): 205-223.
________. “Sport, Amusements, and Pennsylvania Blue Laws, 1682-1973.” Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1974.
_______.“Sport in Philadelphia’s African American Community, 1865-1900.” In Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture, pp. 157-176. Edited by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
________. “The Birth of Professional Football: Pittsburgh Athletic Club Ring in Professionals in 1892.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 62 (April 1979): 131-147.
________. “The Pennsylvania Sunday Blue Laws of 1779: A View of Pennsylvania Society and Politics During the American Revolution.” Pennsylvania History 40 (1973): 413-426.
Jakub, William. “Moses Yellowhorse: The Tragic Career of a Pittsburgh Pirate.” Pittsburgh History 78 (4) (1995-1996): 186-189.
Jenkins, Sally. The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Jordan, David M. The Athletics of Philadelphia: Connie Mack’s White Elephants, 1901-1954. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1999.
________. Occasional Glory: The History of the Philadelphia Phillies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2002.
Kadzielski, Mark A. “‛As A Flower Needs Sunshine’: The Origins of Organized Children’s Recreation in Philadelphia, 1886-1911.” Journal of Sport History 4 (1977): 169-188.
Kashatus, William C., III. “A King Crowns the World’s Greatest Athlete.” Pennsylvania Heritage 22 (Fall 1996): 32-39.
________. “Baseball’s One-Armed Wonder: An Interview With the Late Great, Pete Gray.” Pennsylvania Heritage 29 (Spring 2003): 30-37.
________. Connie Mack’s ’29 Triumph: The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletics Dynasty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 1999.
________. Diamonds in the Coalfields: 21 Remarkable Baseball Players, Managers, and Umpires from Northeast Pennsylvania. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2002.
________. “Dick Allen, The Phillies, and Racism.” Nine 9 (1-2) (2000-01): 151-191.
________. “Joe Palooka, Wilkes-Barre Boxing Legend With a National Punch.” Pennsylvania Heritage 26 (Spring 2000): 22-29.
________. Mike Schmidt: Philadelphia’s Hall of Fame Third Baseman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2000.
________. Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
________. One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 1995.
________. “Philadelphia’s Mr. Baseball and His Amazing Athletics.” Pennsylvania Heritage 16 (Summer 1990): 18-23.
________. “Pride of the Philadelphia Phillies: An Interview With Mike Schmidt.” Pennsylvania Heritage 21 (Fall 1995): 12-19.
________. September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.
________. The Philadelphia Athletics. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
________. “With Dash and Spirit: Haverford College Plays Soccer!” Pennsylvania Heritage 18 (Fall 1992): 12-17.
Keeler, James J. Our Team! Insights from the Publicly Owned Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.
Kirsch, George B. The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-72. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Kriegel, Mark. Namath: A Biography. New York: Viking, 2004.
Kudlik, John J. “You Couldn’t Keep an Iron Man Down: Rowing in Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh.” Pittsburgh History 73 (2) (1990): 51-63.
Kuklick, Bruce. “The Demise of the Philadelphia Athletics.” Baseball History 3 (1990): 33-48.
________. To Every Thing A Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Kupersanin, Michael. “Intercollegiate Athletics at Duquesne University in Historical Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1980.
Lamb, Chris. “‛What’s Wrong With Baseball’: The Pittsburgh Courier and the Beginning of its Campaign to Integrate the National Pastime.” Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (2002): 189-192.
Lancaster, Donald G. “Forbes Field Praised as a Gem When It Opened.” Baseball Research Journal 15 (1986): 26-29.
Lanctot, Neil. Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910-1932. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1994.
________. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Landis, Frank W. “Lancaster City Kid Baseball Leagues.” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 69 (1986): 81-87.
________, ed. “Sports in Lancaster County: Rink Skating and Lawn Tennis.” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 87 (1983): 110-113.
Lane, F. C. “Has President Tener Made Good?” Baseball Magazine 16 (April 1916): 62-66.
Ledbetter, Bonnie S. “Sports and Games of the American Revolution.” Journal of Sport History 6 (Winter 1979): 29-40.
Leone, Tim. The Hershey Bears: Sweet Seasons. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
Leslie, W. Bruce. “Localism, Denominationalism, and Institutional Strategies in Urbanizing America: Three Pennsylvania Colleges, 1870-1915.” History of Education Quarterly 17 (1977): 235-256.
Lester, Larry. Baseball’s First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.
________, and Miller, Sammy J. Black Baseball in Pittsburgh. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001.
Levy, Alan H. Rude Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2000.
Lieb, Frederick G. The Pittsburgh Pirates. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.
Lucas, John A. “The Unholy Experiment: Professional Baseball’s Struggle Against Pennsylvania’s Sunday Laws, 1926-1934.” Pennsylvania History 38 (April 1971): 163-175.
Lyons, Robert S. Palestra Pandemonium: A History of the Big 5. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
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Madden, W. C. The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 1997.
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________. “The Passing of Philadelphia Cricket: A Preliminary Inquiry into Its Causes and Consequences.” International Journal of the History of Sport 10 (1993): 87-92.
________. “They Who Love Germantown Most Are Always Cricketers.” Germantown Crier 42 (3) (1990): 58-62.
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Miner, Curtis. “And They’re Off! Pennsylvania’s Horse Racing Tradition.” Pennsylvania Heritage 31 (Spring 2005): 26-35.
________. “Hardhat Hunters: The Democratization of Recreational Hunting in Twentieth-Century Pennsylvania.” Journal of Sport History 28 (2001): 41-62.
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North, E. Lee. “Pennsylvania Gridiron: Washington & Jefferson College’s First Century of Football.” Pennsylvania Heritage 16 (Fall 1990): 4-9.
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This bibliography is a supplement to Sports in
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