Book Reviews

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Andrew Blake, The Body Language: The Meaning of Modern Sport, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1996, Pp. 222, £12.99. ISBN 0-85315-834-7. Reviewed by Daryl Adair.

Richard Cashman, Paradise of Sport. The Rise of Organised Sport in Australia Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, Pp. 242, £13.99. ISBN 0-19553-298-8. Reviewed by Tony Mason.

Gideon Haigh Australian Cricket Anecdotes, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996, Pp.ix + 276, £16.99. ISBN 0-19-553936-2. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress.

George W. Hilton, editor, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner 1914–1919 Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995, Pp. 632, £50.00. ISBN-0-8047-2963-8. Reviewed by Scott A.G.M. Crawford.

Roger Hutchinson, Empire Games: The British Invention of Twentieth Century Sport, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1996, Pp. 183., £15.99. ISBN 1-85158-842-6. Reviewed by J. A. Mangan.

Arnd Krüger and James Riordan (eds.) The Story of Worker Sport Leeds: Human Kinetics, 1996, Pp. 200, £28.50. ISBN 0-57322-874-X. Reviewed by Tony Mason.

Jay S. Shivers and Lee J. deLisle: The Story of Leisure: Contexts, Concepts and Current Controversy, Champaign: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1997, Pp. 218 ISBN 0 87322 996 7. Reviewed by Lorna Jackson.

Timothy Morris, Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997, Pp. 190, US£13.95 (paperback) and US$34.95 (hardback), ISBN-0-252-02294-7. Reviewed by Scott A.G.M Crawford.

Steven J. Overman, The Influence of the Protestant Ethic on Sport and Recreation, Aldershot and Brookfield, Avebury, 1997, Pp. x + 394., £45.00. ISBN 1-85972-387- X. Reviewed by Roger Munting.

John Sugden, Boxing and Society: An International Analysis, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996, Pp. 218, £14.99. ISBN 0-7190-4321-2. Reviewed by Ken Sheard.

Wray Vamplew and Brian Stoddart (eds), Sport in Australia: A Social History Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, Pp. xiv+346, £44. ISBN 0 521 43513 7. Reviewed by Sir Derek Birley.