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Book Reviews

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Pages 298-325 | Published online: 07 Mar 2007
 

T.C. Mendenhall, The Harvard‐Yale Boat Race 1852–1924 and the Coming of Sport to the American College (Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum. 1993). Pp. xi + 371. £36.50.

Shirl J. Hoffman (ed.), Sport and Religion (Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Books, 1992). Pp. 289.

David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1989–1992. Supplement for Baseball, Football, Basketball and Other Sports (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992). Pp. xxvi + 752. $79.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0–313–26706–5.

Kevin Horrigan, The Right Kind of Heroes: Coach Bob Shannon and the East St Louis Flyers (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1992). Pp. 324. $18.95. ISBN 0–945575–20‐X.

Michael Oriard, Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Pp. 319. ISBN 0–8078–2083–0.

Peter Roebuck, From Sammy to Jimmy: The Official History of Somerset County Cricket Club (London: Transworld Publishers/Partridge Press, 1991). Pp. 443. £16.99. ISBN 185225–0852.

David Frith, By His Own Hand: A Study of Cricket's Suicides (London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1991), Pp. viii + 264. ISBN 0–09–174687–6.

Chris Harte, SACA — The History of South Australian Cricket (Australia: Sport Marketing, 1991). Pp. 448. ISBN 0–958–7980–3‐6.

Gideon Haigh, The Cricket Wars: The Inside Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket (Melbourne, Text Publishing Company. 1993). Pp. 398. A$16.95 (paperback). ISBN 186372–027–8.

J.T. Ferreira, J.P. Blignaut, P.J. Landman and J.F. du Toit, Transvaal Rugby Football Union: 100 Years (Johannesburg: Transvaal Rugby Football Union, 1989). Pp. 256. ISBN O‐620–13300–7.

Thomas Wiedemann, Emperors and Gladiators (London and New York: Routledge, 1992). Pp. xvii + 198. $49.95. ISBN 0–415–00005‐X.

Michael B. Hornum, Nemesis, the Roman State, and the Games (Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, 1993). (Religions in the Graeco‐Roman World, Vol. 117). Pp. xvi + 376. $114.50. ISBN 90–04–09745–7.

John Marshall Carter, Medieval Games: Sports and Recreations in Feudal Society (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992). Pp. 159. $42.95. ISBN 0–313–26743‐X.

John Lowerson, Sport and the English Middle Classes 1870–1914 (Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1993). Pp. ix + 310. £45.00. ISBN 07190–3777–8.

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