This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Sports books! We discuss how to define sports, live sports, weird rules, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-OOPS
  • Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball (YouTube)
  • (lots more below in “Links, Articles, and Things”)
• Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook, narrated by Atli Gunnarsson
• Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
• One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter by Matt Hern
• Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-Changing Female Athletes by Laken Litman
• A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper, narrated by Adam Lazarre-White

Other Media We Mentioned

• Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
• Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn

Links, Articles, and Things

• Which Pokémon are the most goth? (featuring Matthew and Jam)
• Lumberjack World Championship (Wikipedia)
• Sports Book Awards
• Mascot Mischief (Jam’s mascot RPG)
• Pawtucket Red Sox (Wikipedia)
• It’s possible the burlesque wrestling event that Anna and Matthew went to was Glam Slam, which still exists!
• Heritage Minutes (Wikipedia)
  • Wilder Penfield (YouTube)
  • Sam Steele (YouTube)
  • Halifax Explosion (YouTube)
  • Jackie Shane (YouTube) (most recent one!)
  • The 10 Best Canadian Heritage Minutes of All Time
  • A Part of Our Heritage (YouTube)
• AK Press (Wikipedia)
• Green Bay Packers (Wikipedia)
• List of fan-owned sports teams (Wikipedia)
• Sex verification in sports (Wikipedia)
• Testosterone regulations in women’s athletics (Wikipedia)
• Zhang Shan: The only female shooter to win gold in a mixed competition
  • “After the Barcelona Games, the International Shooting Union barred women from shooting against men. For the next years, the skeet event remained on the Olympic Games programme, but only for male athletes.”
• The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I by Jon Bois
• Barbados intentionally scored an own goal to help them win by two thanks to a weird golden goal rule Weird Rules on Secret Base (YouTube)
• Twenty20 (Wikipedia)
  • “Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket.”
• Episode 159 – Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

16 Sports (Non-Fiction)books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina  by Misty Copeland
• Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization through Physical Activity by Tricia McGuire-Adams
• Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City by Perry King
• A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
• Basketball (and Other Things): a Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
• Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X. O. Woodbine
• Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
• In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
• Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
• A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History by Seth Berkman 
• Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus, Elizabeth Terzakis
• Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America by Jason Reid
• Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford
• My Olympic Life by Anita L. DeFrantz and Josh Young
• Back in the Frame: How to get back on your bike, whatever life throws at you by Jools Walker 
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover

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