Sports through the Lens

Maureen M. Smith is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Sacramento and the co-author of (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph. Daniel A. Nathan is a professor of American studies at Skidmore College and the author of Saying It’s So. Sarah K. Fields is a professor of communication at the University of Colorado Denver and the author of Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation and Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America.

Introduction
1. The Making of a Non-Iconic Sports Photograph: John Hemment’s Salvator v. Tenny (Jonathan Finn)
2. The Slide: Ty Cobb Steals Third (Neil McCabe)
3. The Long Count: Dempsey and Tunney (Elliott J. Gorn)
4. “Some Are Easy and Some Are Tough--That’s All There Is to It”: Nickolas Muray’s Portrait of Babe Ruth (Edmund F. Wehrle)
5. Woman in White with an Outstretched Arm: Helene Mayer, 1936 (Allen Guttmann)
6. The Odd Couple: Althea Gibson and Alice Marble, Forest Hills, 1950 (Ashley Brown)
7. Willie Mays and the Catch Heard /`Round the World (George Gmelch and Howard De Nike)
8. Jackie Robinson: Safe at Home (Maureen M. Smith)
9. Alan Ameche from the One: The 1958 NFL Championship Game (Daniel A. Nathan)
10. The Moment of Truth: Ali-Liston II (Carlo Rotella)
11. When Push Came to Shove: Kathrine Switzer, Jock Semple, and the Boston Marathon (Susan Ware)
12. Perched Valor: The Black Power Photograph That Exposed Injustice and Transformed Generations (Terry Anne Scott)
13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Broadway Joe: Joe Namath in Fort Lauderdale, 1969 (Travis Vogan)
14. Secretariat at the Belmont (Jonathan Silverman)
15. “Henderson Has Scored for Canada”: Photographing Canadian Nationalism (Russell Field)
16. U.S. vs. Them: American Nationalism and Sports Illustrated’s Famous Cover Image of The Miracle on Ice (Chris Elzey)
17. Time Stamping Centre Court: Borg at Wimbledon (Michael Butterworth)
18. The Art of Fernando Valenzuela: Baseball and Chicanx Culture in California (Bernardo Ramirez Rios)
19. Michael Jordan at the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest: Liftoff for the NBA and Nike in the New Gilded Age (Sean Dinces)
20. Sovereign Celebration: Cathy Freeman, 1994 (Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond)
21. Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup (Sarah K. Fields)
22. Play Ball: Mo’ne Davis and the Visualization of Athletic Girlhood in Sports Illustrated (Samantha White)
23. To Dream Again: The Founding of NIFA and the First World Indigenous Women’s Soccer Champions (Christine O’Bonsawin)
24. Kaepernick’s Cliché (Timothy B. Spears)
25. The Hug: Finding A Community’s Future on the Pitch (Amy Bass)
Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index