CHICAGO SEMINAR ON SPORT AND CULTURE
SPONSORED BY NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AND THE
NEWBERRY LIBRARY
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
March 2, 2007
“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.
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