CHICAGO SEMINAR ON SPORT AND CULTURE

2006-2007 SCHEDULE

Oct. 6, 2006

“Accounting for Victory: Comparing the Financial Performance of the New York Yankees and the Hilldale Daisies”

Michael Haupert

Department of Economics

University of Wisconsin , LaCrosse

Author of The Entertainment Industry, Westport , CT : Greenwood Publishing, 2006, and “Pay Ball: Estimating the Profitability of the New York Yankees, 1915-1937,” with Ken Winter, Essays in Economic and Business History XXI (Spring 2003), pp 89-102

Nov. 17, 2006

“’Just Another Player:’ The Role of the Cold War Popular Press and Culture in Jackie Robinson’s Entry into Major League Baseball, 1946-1952”

Russ Crawford,

Dept. of History

  Ohio Northern University,

Author of (in progress) Consensus All American: Sport and the Promotion of the American Way of Life During the Cold War, 1946-1965

Dec. 8, 2006

“Betsy Rae Hall: and the 1936 Women’s Olympic Swimming Team.”

James Roland Coates, Jr.

Associate Professor of Education

University of Wisconsin Green Bay , Green Bay , WI .

Author of (in progress)

Sport and Leisure in The African-American Community of Baltimore , Maryland 1890 – 1945  

“Having the Necessities:” The Extraordinary DuSable High School Swimming Team of Chicago , 1935-1952.”

Robert Pruter
Government Documents Librarian
Lewis University Library

Author of Chicago Soul    Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991.

April 6, 2007

"Ivy Leaguers and Iron Rangers Battle the Big Red Machine: Violence, Masculinity and Anti-Communism in Cold War Ice Hockey."

John Soares,

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of History

University of Notre Dame

Author of (in progress) Cold War, Hot Ice: International Ice Hockey During the Cold War

May 4.

"Blazing Balls and Smashing Batsmen: Baseball, Race and the US Army, 1870-1920"

Stanley Arnold
Northern Illinois University

Sessions meet at 3:30-5 PM and are free.  The Newberry is located at 60 W. Walton St. , between Clark and Dearborn streets. Discounted parking is available at garages at 100 W. Chestnut, 100 E. Walton, and 1025 N. Clark with ticket validation at the front desk. Contact:  Steve Riess: 773 442 5631 or riess@neiu.edu.