MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

 

History 3067/5067                                               Mr. Bowling

Topics in American Sports History                   Fall, 2003

 

Books:

 

Clifford Putney, Muscular Christianity; Manhood & Sports

         in Protestant America, 1880-1920 (Cambridge, Mass.,

        2001).

T. Reed Browning, Cy Young; A Baseball Life (Amherst,

        Mass., 2003).

Ray Robinson, Rockne of Notre Dame; The Making of a

       Football Legend (New York, 1999).

Robert W. Peterson, Only the Ball Was White; A History of

        the Legendary Black Players & All-Black Professional

        Teams (New York, 1992).

Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds; How Jack Molinas

        Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball (New York,

        2001).

Joanna Avery & Julie Stevens, Too Many Men on the Ice;

        Women’s Hockey in North America (Custer, Wash.,

        1997).

John Sayle Watterson, College Football; History, Spectacle,

        Controversy (Baltimore, 2000).

Hugh McIlvanney, The Hardest Game (Chicago, 1996).

James Tygiel, Past Tense; Baseball as History (New York,

        2000).

Randy Roberts & David Welky, eds., The Steelers Reader

        (Pittsburgh, 2001).

David Halberstam, Playing for Keeps; Michael Jordan &
          the World He Made (New York, 1999).

Neil J. Sullivan, The Diamond in the Bronx; Yankee
         Stadium & the Politics of New York (New York, 2001).

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. 10^th.

 

Schedule:

Sept. 8           Introduction

 

Sept. 15         The Lessons of the Playing Fields & Courts

                       Putney.

 

Sept. 22         The All-Time Pitcher and the Game He Played

                       Browning.

                            

Sept. 29         The Man Who Made Notre Dame

                       Robinson.

 

Oct. 1             Life in the Negro Leagues

                       Peterson.

 

Oct. 6             The Gambling Issue & College Basketball

                       Rosen.

.

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

           

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

 

Oct. 27           Women On the Ice—With Sticks

                        Avery & Stevens.

 

Nov. 3            The Greatest College Game Over Time

                       Watterson.

 

Nov. 10          The Ring and the Sportswriter

                        McIlvanney.

 

Complete, typewritten draft of paper   

is due.

 

Nov. 17          An Overview of Baseball History

                        Tygiel.

 

Nov. 24          The NFL in the Steel City

                        Roberts & Welky.

 

Dec. 1             His Airness

                       Halberstam.

 

Dec. 8             Yankee Stadium: Taxpayers, Politics, Meaning

                        Sullivan.