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Book Reviews

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Pages 253-266 | Published online: 07 Mar 2007
 

Alan Metcalfe, Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807–1914 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987). Pp.243. $Cn 15.95.

David Quentin Voigt, Baseball: An Illustrated History (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987). Pp.402. $38.50.

Neil J. Sullivan, The Dodgers Move West (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). Pp. xii + 252. £15.00.

Rob Ruck, Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987). Pp.238. Illus., notes, index. £19.95.

Waldo E. Sweet, Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece. A Sourcebook with Translations, Foreword by Eric Segal (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). Pp.xiv + 281. $29.95 (cloth), $11.95 (paper).

Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn‐of‐the‐Century New York (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986). Pp.244. $12.95 (paper back).

Ivo Tennant, Frank Worrell: A Biography (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1987). Pp. 121 + xiii.

John Harding with Jack Berg, Jack Kid Berg. The Whitechapel Windmill (London: Robson Books, 1987). Pp.256. £11.95.

John Horne, David Jary and Alan Tomlinson (eds.), Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987). Pp.253. £9.95 (paperback).

Jean Jules Jusserand, Les Sports et jeux d'exercice dans l'ancienne France (Paris: Plon, 1901; Geneva: Slatkine reprint, 1986). Pp.000. FF00.

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