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This volume, stuffed with insightful scholarship and thoughtful suggestions for teaching, will be invaluable for anyone interested in bringing sports into the classroom. I'll certainly be using it! --Katherine Mooney, Florida State University A highly readable and effective introduction to the use of sports history as a means of engaging and motivating students. This collection of original essays provides the classroom teacher with a wide range of examples of how to connect with today's students. For teachers seeking to infuse their classroom with meaningful and significant material, this book is just the ticket. --Richard Davies, University of Nevada-Reno

“This volume, stuffed with insightful scholarship and thoughtful suggestions for teaching, will be invaluable for anyone interested in bringing sports into the classroom. I'll certainly be using it!”—Katherine Mooney, Florida State University “A highly readable and effective introduction to the use of sports history as a means of engaging and motivating students. This collection of original essays provides the classroom teacher with a wide range of examples of how to connect with today’s students. For teachers seeking to infuse their classroom with meaningful and significant material, this book is just the ticket.”—Richard Davies, University of Nevada–Reno

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Brad Austin is a professor of history and a secondary education coordinator at Salem State University. He has run dozens of professional development seminars and institutes for K-12 teachers and is the author of Democratic Sports: Men’s and Women’s College Sports during the Depression. Pamela Grundy is an independent scholar and the author of several books on sports history, including Learning to Win: Sports, Education and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina.

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