A completely updated reference work for the many collectors specializing in cards of players from a particular team. Includes all major cards for the year. The only book of its kind!

These delightful cartoon books dedicated to the coaches, players, and fans involved in the world of sporting games are perfect "bathroom" books loaded with cartoons that blend outrageous illustrations with clever captions.

Lists all of the baseball cards printed for each professional baseball player, including minor league players, team cards, and world series cards.

SPORTS AMERICANA II is a delightful cartoon book designed to give everyone a humorous look at sports. The absurdity of sports and its ludicrousness come to life from Tiritilli's pen. His hilarious cartoons target players, coaches and fans alike. Our LuckySports collection of copyrighted sport cartoon characters, give a fresh, new look to sports humor and are featured throughout the book. The book contains over 100 original black and white sports cartoons. This book's silliness is a winner for anyone who has ever been in sports. SPORTS AMERICANA II is a gift for all occasions and makes perfect bathroom reading for couch potatoes and beer drinkers alike.

"Sports Americana III" contains over 100 original black and white sports cartoons from the LuckySports* collection. The hilarious cartoons target players, coaches, and fans alike.

The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through innovative themes and topics such as the business of sport, material culture and sport, the political uses of sport, and gender and sport, this text offers an interdisciplinary analysis of American leisure. Rather than moving chronologically through American history or considering the historical origins of each sport, these topics are dealt with organically within thematic chapters, emphasizing the influence of sport on American society. The volume is divided into eight thematic sections that include detailed original essays on particular facets of each theme. Focusing on how sport has influenced the history of women, minorities, politics, the media, and culture, these thematic chapters survey the major areas of debate and discussion. The volume offers a comprehensive view of the history of sport in America, pushing the field to consider new themes and approaches as well. Including a roster of contributors renowned in their fields of expertise, this ground-breaking collection is essential reading for all those interested in the history of American sport.

Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants’ athleticism is undeniable, roller derby has never been accepted as a “real” sport. Michella M. Marino, herself a former skater, tackles the history of a sport that has long been a cultural mainstay for one reason both utterly simple and infinitely complex: roller derby has always been coed. Richly illustrated and drawing on oral histories, archival materials, media coverage, and personal experiences, Roller Derby is the first comprehensive history of this cultural phenomenon, one enjoyed by millions yet spurned by mainstream gatekeepers. Amid the social constraints of the mid-twentieth century, roller derby’s emphasis on gender equality attracted male and female athletes alike, producing gender relations and gender politics unlike those of traditional sex-segregated sports. In an enlightening feminist critique, Marino considers how the promotion of pregnancy and motherhood by roller derby management has simultaneously challenged and conformed to social norms. Finally, Marino assesses the sport’s present and future after its resurgence in the 2000s.