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Many topics feature information about specific sports icons and favorite heroes. Additionally, many of the topics' treatments prompt engagement by purposely challenging the reader to either agree or disagree with the author's analysis.</p></div></div></div><div class="search_box_wrapper"></div></td> </tr></table><div id="summary-second-column"></div></div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class=about_title><a name="about_author_anchor"></a>About the author <span style="color:#666; font-weight:normal">(2012)</span></h3><div id=about_author class=about_content><div id=about_author_v><div class=textmodulecontent><p><b>Danielle Sarver Coombs</b>, PhD, is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University, Kent, OH.</p><p></p><p><b>Bob Batchelor</b>, PhD, is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University and academic coordinator of its online master's program in public relations. Batchelor is the author or editor of 21 books, including 3 volumes in Greenwood's "Popular Culture through History" series: <i>The 1900s</i>, <i>The 1980s</i>, and <i>The 2000s</i>. In addition, he edited Greenwood's four-volume <i>American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade</i>; Praeger's three-volume <i>Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream</i>; and Praeger's three-volume <i>American History through American Sports</i>.</p></div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class="about_title">Bibliographic information</h3><div class="about_content" id="metadata_content" style="padding-bottom:.3em"><div class="metadata_sectionwrap"><table id="metadata_content_table"><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label">Title</td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>American History through American Sports: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports [3 volumes]: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Editors</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bob+Batchelor%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Bob Batchelor</span></a>, <a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Danielle+Sarver+Coombs%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Danielle Sarver Coombs</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Publisher</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>ABC-CLIO, 2012</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>ISBN</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>0313379890, 9780313379895</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Length</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>944 pages</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Subjects</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Sports+%26+Recreation%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">Sports & Recreation</span></a></div> › <div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Sports+%26+Recreation+Reference%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">Reference</span></a></div><br><br><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Social+Science+/+Popular+Culture%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Social Science / Popular Culture</span></a><br/><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Sports+%26+Recreation+/+Reference%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=2"><span dir=ltr>Sports & Recreation / Reference</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td>&nbsp</td><td>&nbsp</td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Export Citation</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/American_History_through_American_Sports.bibtex?id=_QEr_P_NXD4C&output=bibtex"><span dir=ltr>BiBTeX</span></a> <a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/American_History_through_American_Sports.enw?id=_QEr_P_NXD4C&output=enw"><span dir=ltr>EndNote</span></a> <a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/American_History_through_American_Sports.ris?id=_QEr_P_NXD4C&output=ris"><span dir=ltr>RefMan</span></a></td></tr></table></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><script>_OC_addFlags({Host:"https://books.google.com.sg/", IsBooksUnifiedLeftNavEnabled:1, IsZipitFolderCollectionEnabled:1, IsBrowsingHistoryEnabled:1, IsBooksRentalEnabled:1});_OC_Run({"is_cobrand":false,"sign_in_url":"https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=print\u0026continue=https://books.google.com.sg/books%3Fid%3D_QEr_P_NXD4C%26q%3Dhistory%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bfootball%2Bbowl%2Bsubdivision%26pg%3DPT437%26redir_esc%3Dy%26hl%3Den\u0026hl=en"}, {"volume_id":"_QEr_P_NXD4C","is_ebook":false,"volumeresult":{"has_flowing_text":true,"has_scanned_text":false,"can_download_pdf":false,"can_download_epub":false,"is_pdf_drm_enabled":false,"is_epub_drm_enabled":false},"sample_url":"https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=_QEr_P_NXD4C\u0026source=gbs_atb_hover","is_browsable":false,"is_public_domain":false}, {});</script><div id="footer_table" style="font-size:83%;text-align:center;position:relative;top:20px;height:4.5em;margin-top:2em"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><a href="/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html"><nobr><nobr>About Google Books</nobr></nobr></a> - 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