Course:
Sport in American History, Fall 2013
Meets:
MWF, 11:15-12:20
Room:
New Business School-BSB-132
Instructor:
Dr. Catherine D’Ignazio
Office:
429 Cooper St., Room 107,
Office Hours:
W-1:30-2:30, or by appointment
50:512:276
Final Exam—Wednesday, Dec. 18, 9a-12p
The goal of this class is for students to become familiar with the major themes and
methods used to critically analyze the role of sport in the history of the United
States.
This is a history course. The course covers material from the establishment of the
United States to the present.
The reading requirements for this course include two texts that students , and a
number of articles and selected book chapters that students can access on the class
Sakai site. Additionally, students will choose one sport biography chosen from an
approved list.
Class attendance is required and part of your final grade because discussion of daily
readings is an important part of the class.
In addition to class participation, students will be graded on a sport autobiography
or biography (3-5 pages), a book review (2-4 pages) of their chosen sport
biography, and a final exam. I will provide grading rubrics and explicit guidelines
for the two writing projects.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STATEMENT:
Academic integrity prohibits “submitting a work for credit that includes words,
ideas, data, or creative work of others without acknowledging the source.” It also
prohibits “using another author’s words without enclosing them in quotation
marks…or without citing the source appropriately.” The typical penalty for
infractions of academic integrity is a grade of “F” for the course.
DISABILITY STATEMENT:
Any student who has a documented disability and is in need of academic
accommodations should notify the professor either in person or at
dignazio@camden.rutgers.edu
Required TEXTS:
The New American Sport History, Recent Approaches and Perspectives, ed. S.W. Pope
Learning to Win, Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North
Carolina
CHOOSE ONE:
Daniel S. Pierce- Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
Susan Caylaff- Babe- Biography of Babe Dedrickson-Zaharias, greatest woman athlete
of the 20th century
Sally Jenkins- The Real All-Americans
Andrew Ritchie- Major Taylor: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
Reading and Class Schedule
Week
Date
Day
Reading Assignment
1
9-4
W
Introductions
2
9-6
F
Text: Gorn, Sports through the Nineteenth Century
Sakai-Guttman Introduction
3
9-9
M
Sakai--Article by Adelman: The First Modern Sport in America-
4
9-11
W
Text: Adelman, The Early Years of Baseball, 1845-60
5
9-13
F
Text: Oriard, In the Beginning was the Rule
6
9-16
M
Text: Dyreson, American Sport, Bourgeois Culture, and the
Language of Progress, 1880-1920
7
9-18
W
Text: Struna, Gender and Sporting Practice in Early American,
1750-1810
8
9-20
F
Text: Gorn, The Meanings of Prizefighting
9
9-23
M
Urban Reformers, Playground Movement
10
9-25
W
Newsies and Sport Coverage (Nasaw)
11
9-27
F
Breaking Records: Marshall Taylor to Gertrude Ederle
12
9-30
M
College Sports-
13
10-2
W
Sakai: Article by Shattuck, Bats, Balls and Books
14
10-4
F
Sakai: Article by Gerber, Controlled Development of Basketball
15
10-7
M
College Sports-Corruption-Horse Feathers
16
10-9
W
Sakai: Article by Austin-Protecting Athletics and…Ohio State
17
1011
F
Sakai: Team Spirit selected readings
18
1014
M
Jews and Sports and the SPHAs case
19
1016
W
20
1018
F
21
1021
M
22
1023
W
23
1025
F
Grundy-Chapters 7-Epilogue
24
1028
M
Cold War and Race
25
1030
W
Jack Johnson-Jackie Robinson-Tommy Smith
26
11-1
F
Sakai: Article by Soares-Cold War, Hot Ice
27
11-4
M
Text: Wiggins,
Sakai: Article by Borish, Settlement Houses to Olympic Stadiums
Grundy- Intro to Chapter 3
Grundy-Chapters 4-6
Sakai: excerpts from Unlevel Playing Field, Where are the Black
Women?
Gladwell Radio LabInternet:http://www.radiolab.org/2008/dec/15/
28
11-6
W
Text: Cooper,
Youtube: K Switzer
29
11-8
F
1960s-80s Commercialization, TV
30
1111
M
1113
W
32
1115
F
Finances-NCAA law suit
33
1118
M
Title IX,
34
1120
W
Female Gladiators lecture
35
1122
F
In class Writing Workshop
36
1125
M
Stadiums -history of financing
1127
W
31
37
Curt Flood, Disco Demolition Night,
Text: Guttman
FinancesSakai: Article by Adelman, Making Money (Lots of It)
Sakai: Article by Fields, Hoover V Meiklejohn
Reading: To Be determined
NASCAR, Stock Car:
http://www.collections.library.appstate.edu/stockcar/history
Internet: “The Last American Hero,” (Junior Johnson) by Tom
Wolfe in Esquire Magazine, 1965:
http://www.esquire.com/features/life-of-junior-johnson-tomwolfe-0365
1129
F
NO CLASS
38
12-2
M
Class discussion of Biographies
39
12-4
W
Class discussion of Biographies
40
12-6
F
Class discussion of Biographies
41
12-9
M
Prep for Final
Book Review due
Autobiography/Biography DUE
1218
W
FINAL EXAM 9am-12pm,