Books and Documents

Acosta, R. Vivian and Carpenter, Linda Jean. Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal Study - Twenty-five Year Update, 1977-2002. West Brookfield, MA: Carpenter/Acosta, 2002. http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/binary-data/WSF_ARTICLE/pdf_file/906.pdf

Allred, Alexandra Powe. 'Atta Girl! A Celebration of Women in Sport. Terre Haute, IN: Wish Publishing, April 2003.

Angell, Roger. Game Time: A Baseball Companion. San Diego: Harcourt, 2003.

Angell, Roger. Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.

Ashe, Arthur with Rampersad, Arnold. Days of Grace: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,1993.

Asinof, Eliot. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000.

Axthelm, Pete. The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Beran, Janice A. From Six-on-Six to Full Court Press: A Century of Iowa Girls' Basketball. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1993.

Bissinger, W.G. (Buzz). Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000.

Bissinger, W.G. (Buzz) and Stout, Glenn, eds. The Best American Sports Writing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.

Brown, Gerry and Morrison, Michael, eds. 2004 ESPN Sports Almanac. New York: Hyperion Books, 2003.

Conroy, Pat. My Losing Season. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2002.

Corman, Richard. I Am Proud: The Athletes of the Special Olympics. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003.

Creamer, Robert W. Baseball and Other Matters in 1941: A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever – in the Year America Went to War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Dawidoff, Nicholas, ed. Baseball: A Literary Anthology. New York: Library of America, 2002.

Deford, Frank. The Heart of a Champion: Celebrating the Spirit and Character of Great American Sports Heroes. Minnetonka, MN: NorthWord, 2002.

DePauw, Karen P., and Gavron, Susan J. Disability and Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1995.

Dunow, Henry. The Way Home: Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime. New York: Broadway Books, 2001.

Enders, Eric. 100 Years of the World Series. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003.

Exley, Frederick. A Fan's Notes: A Fictional Memoir. New York: Modern Library, 1997.

Fein, Paul. Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches and Controversies. Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 2001.

Feinstein, John. Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.

Ford, Richard. The Sportswriter. New York: Random House, 1995.

Fort, Rodney D. Sports Economics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.

Galemore, Gary L. Title IX and Sex Discrimination in Education: An Overview. CRS Report RS20710. Washington: U.S. Congressional Research Service, 4 March 2003.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett. A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti. Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonquin Books, 1998.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett. Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games. New York: Summit Books, 1991.

Gogol, Sara. Hard Fought Victories: Women Coaches Making a Difference. Terre Haute, IN: Wish Pub., 2002.

Gorn, Elliott J., and Goldstein, Warren. A Brief History of American Sports. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Gould, Steven Jay. Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball. New York: Norton, 2003.

Halberstam, David. The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship. New York: Hyperion Books, 2003.

Halberstam, David and Stout, Glenn, eds. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Harris, Mark. Bang the Drum Slowly. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend. New York: Random House, 2003.

Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998.

Koplowitz, Zoe. The Winning Spirit: Life Lessons Learned in Last Place. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Kramer, Jerry and Schaap, Dick. Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer. New York: New American Library, 1986.

Lapchick, Richard E. 2003 Racial and Gender Report Card. Orlando: University of Central Florida. College of Business Administration. DeVos Sport Business Management Program. Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, 2003.
http://www.bus.ucf.edu/sport/public/downloads/media/ides/release_report.pdf

Lardner, Ring W. You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters. New York: Macmillan International, 1991.

Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

McGuane, Thomas. An Outside Chance: Classic and New Essays on Sport. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

McPhee, John. Levels of the Game. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.

McPhee, John. A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Messner, Michael A. Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Mullen, P.H., Jr. Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.

National Geographic Society, ed. Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves through Our National Game. Washington: National Geographic Society, 2002.

Offenburger, Chuck. E. Wayne Cooley and the Iowa Girl: A Celebration of the Nation's Best High School Girls Sports Program. Des Moines, IA: Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, 2002.

Oglesby, Carole A., et al. Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1998.

Peterson, Robert. Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Plimpton, George. Paper Lion. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2003.

Rader, Benjamin G. American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Rapoport, Ron, ed. A Kind of Grace: A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women. Berkeley, CA: Zenobia Press, 1994.

Reilly, Rick. Sports Illustrated: The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly. New York: Time Warner, 2003.

Richmond, Peter. Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Rinehart, Robert E., and Sydnor, Synthia. To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out. Albany: State University of New York, 2003.

Ritter, Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. New York: Harper, 1992.

Smith, Lissa. Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998

Smith, Red. The Red Smith Reader. Edited by Dave Anderson. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Telander, Rick. Heaven Is a Playground. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Tygiel, Jules. Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

U.S. Census Bureau. Disability Status: 2000. Census 2002 Brief. Washington: March 2003. http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-17.pdf (PDF)

U.S. Dept. of Education. Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics. "Open to All:" Title IX at Thirty; Final Report. Washington: February 2003. http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/athletics/title9report.doc (Word)
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/athletics/title9report.pdf (PDF)

U.S. Dept. of Justice. Civil Rights Division. Disability Rights Section. A Guide to Disability Rights Laws. Washington: May 2002.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm (HTML)
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.pdf (PDF)

Updike, John. Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Ward, Geoffrey C., and Burns, Ken. Baseball: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Wideman, John Edgar. Hoop Roots. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Will, George. Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

Wolff, Alexander. Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure. New York: Warner Books, 2002. http://www.biggamesmallworld.com

Zimbalist, Andrew. May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

Zimmerman, Jean. Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls' Lives. New York: Doubleday, 1999.

Internet Sites

America's Sports Illustrated: 50 Years, 50 States, 50 Sports
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/features/si50/

CBS Sportsline.com
http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/

Center for the Study of Sport in Society. Northeastern University
http://www.sportinsociety.org/

Disability Awareness in the United States
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/able/
General site on disability from the International Information Programs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State.

Disabled Sports USA
http://www.dsusa.org/

ESPN.com
http://espn.go.com/

Hickok's Sports History
http://www.hickoksports.com/history.shtml
Covers major events, awards, and statistics as well as links to biographies, books, software, trivia, quotes, and game rules.

Information Please Almanac - Sports Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/sports.html

Institute for International Sport
http://www.internationalsport.com/index.html

International Games Archive
http://www.internationalgames.net/

Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
http://www.ighsau.org/

Major League Baseball (MLB)
http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com/

Major League Soccer (MLS)
http://www.mlsnet.com/

National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS)
http://www.aahperd.org/nagws/template.cfm?template=main.html

National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/

National Basketball Association (NBA)
http://www.nba.com/

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
http://www.ncaa.org/

National Hockey League (NHL)
http://www.nhl.com/

National Football League (NFL)
http://www.nfl.com/

NFL Europe
http://www.nfleurope.com/

SIRC - A World of Sport Information
http://www.sportquest.com/resources/index.html
This sports "encyclopedia" covers all sports and includes special interests and topics, such as women, the disabled, statistics, and associations.

Sport Science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html
Answers to sport science questions from the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California

Sports Illustrated/CNN
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/

The Sports Network
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/

Street Basketball Association
http://www.streetbasketballassociation.net/

U.S. Dept. of Education. Secretary's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/athletics/index.html?exp=0

U.S. Olympic Committee
http://www.olympic-usa.org/

U.S. Paralympics
http://www.usparalympics.org/

U.S. Special Olympics
http://www.specialolympics.org

USA Triathlons
http://www.usatriathlons.com/

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
http://www.wnba.com/

Women's Sports Foundation
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html

Yahoo! Sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/
Source for news, scoreboards, and statistics.