US Sports Culture: NFL, Basketball, and Baseball.

How significant are these mainstream sports in US society?

Who are the audiences for them?

What is the relationship between these sports and politics?

What does Pierman tell us about the AAGPBL and the roll of women in baseball?

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Accomplishing Great Things in a Dangerous World Carol J. Pierman, in Hoffmann, Frank, et al. Baseball and American Culture : Across the Diamond, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=1588497Here

What does this article reveal about the role of race in Basketball?

GOUDSOUZIAN, A., 2017. From Lew Alcindor to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Race, Religion, and Representation in Basketball, 1968-1975. Journal of American Studies, 51(2), pp. 437-470. here

What does Crawford tell us about the growth and importance of NFL?

Football’s history and reach , Russ Crawford, in Football, Culture and Power, ed. by David J. Leonard, Kim George, and Wade Davis (Routledge, 2016) Here

Further reading

• Crepeau, Richard C., NFL Football: a History of America's New National Pastime, 1;NFL Centennial; (University of Illinois Press, 2021;2020
• Ferguson, Lisa. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: Flags, Football, and the NFL's & Patriotism Problem. New York, NY: Routledge, 2024.
• Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri, 'A Field of New Dreams', Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War (Chapel Hill, NC, 2012; online edn, North Carolina Scholarship Online, 24 July 2014), https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.5149/9780807882665_guthrie-shimizu.12
• Rielly, Edward J.,Baseball and American Culture: across the Diamond (Routledge, 2012)

Wenner, L. A. (2022). The Oxford handbook of sport and society (L. A. Wenner & L. A. Wenner, Eds.; 1st ed.). Oxford University Press.

• Williams, Kat D., Isabel &Quot;Lefty&Quot; Alvarez: the Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star (University of Nebraska Press, 2020)
• Willms, Nicole, When Women Rule the Court: Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball (Rutgers University Press, 2017)