MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

History 3067/5067                                                 Fall 2008
Topics in American Sports History                     Mr. Bowling
                                                                                Mr. Scanlon
Books:

	Mark Dyreson, Making the Americam Team; Sport,    Culture, & the Olympic Experience (Urbana, 1997).
	John Heidenry, The Gashouse Gang; How Dizzy Dean,    Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, &    Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won    the World Series--& America's Heart--During the    Great Depression (New York, 2008).
	John Chi-Kit Wong, Lords of the Rinks; The    Emergence of the National Hockey League,    1875-1936 (Toronto, 2005).
	Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ    & His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey (New York,    2007).
	Neil Lanctot,  Negro League Baseball: The Rise &    Ruin of a Black Institution (Philadelphia, 2007).
	James Dodson, Ben Hogan; An American Life    (Lincoln, 2004).
	Kathryn Jay, More than Just a Game; Sports in    American Life Since 1945 (New York, 2006).
	Ron Thomas, They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's    Black Pioneers (Lincoln, 2004).
	David Remnick, King of the World; Muhammed Ali &    the Rise of an American Hero (New York, 1999).
	Pamela Grundy & Susan Shackelford, Shattering the    Glass; the Remarkable History of Women's    Basketball (Chapel Hill, 2007).
	Filip Bondy, Tip Off; How the 1984 NBA Draft    Changed Basketball Forever (New York 2008).
	Tony Moss, A Season in Purgatory; Villanova & Life    in College Football's Lower Class (Lincoln, 2007).

Requirements:

        1.   Attendance  
        2.   Participation.  
        3.   Readings.  
        4.   Successful completion of two examinations.  
        5.   A critical paper, c. 15-20 pp. for undergraduates  
              (c. 25-30 pp. for graduate students), a complete,
              typewritten draft of which is due on Nov. 10th.

Course Objectives:         

        1.  Factual knowledge of the historical essence of the subject via readings, discussion &
             lectures .
        2.  Factual knowledge of the international dimensions of the subject .
        3.  Practice of essay-writing to demonstrate general comprehension of factual material
             backed up by specifics, along with critical/analytical interpretation as to the “why”
             behind events, trends, and outcomes .
        4.  Practice of thesis formation/conceptualization, information retrieval & research,
             construction of critical/analytical argument sustained over a substantially lengthy
             essay, citation according to standard form, and revision as an integral part of writing.

Schedule:

Aug. 25       Homo Ludens

Sept. 1         L A B O R   D A Y

Sept. 8         The Olympic Spirit

                       Dyreson           

Sept. 15       From Out of St. Louis

                       Heidenry  

Sept. 22       The Coolest Game on Ice

                       Wong

Scpt. 29       When Dempsey Met Tunney

                       Cavanaugh

Oct. 6          The Rise & Fall of the Negro Leagues

                        Lanctot  

Oct. 13        C O L U M B U S   D A Y         

Oct. 14        The Ben Hogan Story

                       Dodson      

Oct. 20        M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I O N  

Oct. 27        The Postwar Sports World: An Overview

                       Jay  

Nov. 3         The Rise of the NBA

                       Thomas.  

Nov. 10       "The Greatest"

                        Remnick  

Complete, typewritten draft of paper is due on Nov. 10th.

Nov. 17       Basketball: The Other Side of the Story

                       Grundy & Shackelford   

Nov. 24       The New NBA

                        Bondy  

Dec. 1          College Football on the Main Line Today

                        Moss