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Audrey Briers, Sporting Success in Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1994). Pp.48, illustrations, further reading. $8.95 (paper). ISBN 1–85444–055–1.
Roger Morgan, Tennis: The Development of the European Ball Game. Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Edward (Oxford: Ronaldson Publications, 1995). Pp.xi + 259, £45. ISBN 0–9501251–7‐1.
Christy Mathewson, Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball From the Inside (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp.322. $12.00. ISBN 0–8032–8212–5); Harry Samuel ‘Steamboat’ Johnson, Standing the Gaff: The Life and Hard Times of a Minor League Umpire (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp.194. $6.95. ISBN 0–8032–7579‐X); Larry R. Gerlach, The Men in Blue: Conversations With Umpires (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). Pp.310. $11.95. ISBN 0–8032–7045–3.
Robin Lester, Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big‐Time Football at Chicago (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995). Pp.301, b&w photographs, appendices. ISBN 0–252–02128–2.
Murray Sperber, Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football (New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1993). Pp.xxii + 634. $25. ISBN 0–8050–1874–3.
Larry K. Menna, Sports in North America: A Documentary History ‐‐ Volume 2, Origins of Modern Sports, 1820–1840 (Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press). Pp.xvii + 405. Selected bibliography, 145 documents, and indexes. $75 (cloth) subscription/$95 non‐subscription. ISBN 0–87569–136–6.
Richard Cashman, Paradise of Sport: The Rise of Organised Sport in Australia. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995). Illustrations, bibliography, index.. A$24.95.
John McI. Davidson, International Rugby Union — A Compendium of Scotland's Matches. (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994). Pp. xii + 295, 12 appendices, 15 photographs, no index. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7486–6186–7.
John Wilson, Playing by the Rules: Sport, Society, and the State (Detroit: Wayne State University Press. May, 1994). Pp.427. US$39.95. ISBN 0–8143–2107–0.
Richard, Cox The Internet as a Resource for the Sports Historian. (Frodsham, UK: Sports History Publishing in association with the British Society of Sports History, 1995). Pp. vi + 62, no price given. ISBN 1–898010–05–6.
Robert C. Post, High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing 1950–1990, (Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins Press, 1994). Pp xxiii + 416. £30. ISBN 0–8018–4654–4.
Leif Yttergren: Competition is Life. The organisation and sportification of the sports in Stockholm 1860–1898 (1996).