1989-2007

2007 Winner(s)

Barbara Keys
Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
(Harvard University Press, 2006)

Murray G. Phillips
Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis
(State University Press of New York Press, 2006)

Committee:

Nancy Bouchier
McMaster University
Allen Guttmann (Chair)
Amherst College
Jeff Hill
De Montfort University
Daniel Nathan
Skidmore College
 
Jan Todd
University of Texas

2006 Winner(s)

David Block
Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game
(University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

Douglas Booth
The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History
(Routledge, 2005)

Committee:

Nancy Bouchier
McMaster University
Allen Guttmann
Amherst College
Jeff Hill
De Montfort University
Daniel Nathan (Chair)
Skidmore College
 
Jan Todd
University of Texas
 

2005 Winner

Allen Guttmann
Sports: The First Five Millennia
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2004)

Committee:

Douglas Booth (Chair)
University of Otago
Daniel Nathan
Skidmore College
Jan Todd
University of Texas
Stephen Wenn
Wilfrid Laurier University

 

2004 Winner

Daniel A. Nathan
Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
(University of Illinois Press, 2003)

Committee:

Douglas Booth (Chair)
University of Otago
Catriona Parratt
University of Iowa
David Zang
Towson University

 

2003 Winner

Robert K. Barney, Stephen R. Wenn, and Scott G. Martyn
Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism
(University of Utah Press, 2002)

Committee:

Douglas Booth
University of Otago

 

2002 Winner

Pamela Grundy
Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina
(University of North Carolina Press, 2001)

Committee:

Douglas Booth
University of Otago
Jim Coates
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Jules Tygiel
San Francisco State University
Nancy Struna (Chair)
University of Maryland
Kevin Wamsley
University of Western Ontario

 

2001 Winner

Mike Huggins
Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914
(London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2000)

Committee:

 

2000 Winner

John M. Carroll
Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999)

Committee:

 

1999 Winner

Douglas Booth
The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa
(London, Frank Cass Publishers, 1998)

Committee:

Norman Baker
SUNY Buffalo
Larry Gerlach
University of Utah
Catriona Parratt
University of Iowa
Nancy Struna
University of Maryland
Martha Verbrugge
Bucknell University


1998 Winner

No Award Given

Committee:

E. John Allen
Plymouth State College
Norman Baker
SUNY Buffalo
Larry Gerlach
University of Utah
Catriona Parratt
University of Iowa
Martha Verbrugge
Bucknell University


1997 Winner

Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto
The Struggle for Canadian Sport
(Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996)

Committee:

E. John Allen
Plymouth State College
Norman Baker, Chair.
SUNY Buffalo
Larry Gerlach
University of Utah
Catriona Parratt
University of Iowa
Martha Verbrugge
Bucknell University


1996 Winner

Robin Lester, Stagg's University
The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)

Committee:

Norman Baker
SUNY Buffalo
Jack Berryman
University of Washington
(Replacing E. John Allen,Plymouth State College)
Joan Hult
University of Maryland
Bruce Kidd, Chair.
University of Toronto
Jan Todd
University of Texas, Austin
(Replacing M. Verbrugge, Bucknell U. [on Sabbatical])


1995 Winner

Susan K. Cahn, State U. of NY, Buffalo
Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport
(New York: Free Press, 1994)

Committee:

E. John Allen
Plymouth State College
Joan Hult
University of Maryland
Bruce Kidd, Chair.
University of Toronto
Charles Korr
U. of Missouri, St. Louis
Martha Verbrugge
Bucknell University


1994 Winner

Robert Edelman, U. of California, San Diego
Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the U.S.S.R.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)

Committee:

Joan M. Chandler, Chair.
University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen Hardy
University of New Hampshire
Joan Hult
University of Maryland
Bruce Kidd
University of Toronto
Charles P. Korr
U. of Missouri, St. Louis


1993 Winner

Peter Levine, Michigan State University
Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)

Committee:

Joan M. Chandler
University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen Hardy
University of New Hampshire
Joan Hult
University of Maryland
Charles P. Korr
U. of Missouri, St. Louis
Patricia Vertinsky, Chair.
U. of British Columbia


1992 Winner

Allen Guttmann, Amherst College
Women's Sports: A History
(Columbia University Press, 1991)

Committee:

William J. Baker
University of Maine
Joan M. Chandler
University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen Hardy, Chair.
University of New Hampshire
Charles P. Korr
U. of Missouri, St. Louis
Patricia Vertinsky
U. of British Columbia


1991 Winner

Harold Seymour, Keene, New Hampshire
Baseball: The People's Game
(Oxford University Press, 1990)

Committee:

Bill Baker
University of Maine, Orono
Joan Chandler
University of Texas at Dallas
Larry Gerlach
University of Utah
Steve Hardy, Chair.
University of New Hampshire
Earle Zeigler
The University of Western Ontario


1990 Winner

Warren Goldstein, SUNY/College at Old Westbury
Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball
(Cornell University Press, 1989)

Committee:

Larry Gerlach, Chair.
University of Utah
Charles Korr
U. of Missouri-St. Louis
Donald Kyle
U. of Texas at Arlington
Roberta Park
U. of California, Berkeley
Earle Zeigler
The University of Western Ontario


1989 Winner

Wray Vamplew, Flinders U. of S. Australia
Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914
(Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Committee:

William Baker
University of Maine, Orono
Larry Gerlach, Chair.
University of Utah
Donald Kyle
U. of Texas at Arlington
Roberta Park
U. of California, Berkeley
Earle Zeigler
The University of Western Ontario