LIST OF SPORT LITERATURE ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS OF SPORT LITEARTURE BY COUNTRY

Santoro, Roberto Jorge, ed. Literatura de la pelota (Literature of Pelota). Buenos Aires: Editorial Papeles de Buenos Aires, 1971.

Cuenco, Rodolto, comp. Fútbol a puro cuento (Football in the Short Story). Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Faro Verde, 1986.

Fotheringham, Richard. Sport in Australian Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Hall, Rodney.  The Collins Book of Australian Poetry.  London:   Collins, 1981.

Moss, Peter D., ed.  The Games:  Selection of Stories and Poems about Sport.  Adelaide: Rigby, 1975.

Brooks, Kevin and Brooks, Sean, eds.  Thru the Smoky End Boards:  Canadian Poetry about Sports & Games.  Vancouver, British Columbia:  Polestar, 1996.

Kennedy, Michael P.J., ed. Words on Ice: A Collection of Hockey Prose. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2003.

Lee, John B., ed.  That Sign of Perfection:  From Bandy Legs to Beer Legs:  Poems and Stories on the Game of Hockey. Ontario, Ca: Black Moss Press, 1995.

Lee, John B., ed. The Hockey Player Sonnets. Waterloo, Ont.: Penumbra Press, 2003.

Schwend, Peter and Wind, Herbert Warren, eds.  Great Stories from the World of Sport.  Toronto:  Heinemann, 1960.

Christensen, Peter and Stjernfelt, Frederik, eds. Fodbold!: Forfattere om Fænomenet Fodbold (Football!: Writers on the Phenomenon of Football). Viborg: Gylendal, 2003.

Munoz, Othon.  La Poesia en el Deporte:  Antologia Ecuatorian (Poetry and Sport: An Ecuadorian Anthology). Guayaquil, Ecuador: Federacion Ecuatoriana de Arte y Cultura Olimpicos, 1980.

Delbourg, Patrice and Heinemann, Benoit.  Anthologie de Textes Litteraires sur le Football.  (Anthology of Literary Texts on Football) Paris:  ED Stock, 1997.

Dobzynski, Charles, ed.  Sport & Litterature (Sport and Literature). Paris:  Europe Revue Mensuelle,  Juin-Juillet, 1996.

Franck, David. Les Poètes et le Sport (Poets and Sport). Paris : J. Grassin, 1992.

Le Targat, H. and Lyliere, J.-C.  Anthologie de la Litterature du Sport (Anthology of Sport Literature).  Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1988.

Le Targat, H. and Lyliere, J.-C. Realities Sportives Fictions Romanesques Bibliographie 1870-1989 (A Bibliography of Sporting Facts and Fiction 1870 – 1989).  Fâches Thumesnil:  Medi-Presse, 1989

Moussat, Emile.  Anthologie des Textes Sportifs de L’Antiquite Classique (Anthology of Sporting Texts of Classical Literature). Paris:  E.D. Grasset, 1927.

Prouteau, Gilbert.  Anthologie des Textes Sportifs de la Litterature (Anthology of Texts of Sport Literature).   Paris:  Defense de la France, 1948.

Prouteau, Gilbert.  L'Equipe de France:  Anthologie des Textes Sportifs de la Litterature Francaise (L’Equipe of France : An Anthologie of French Sports Literature). Paris:  Plon, 1972.

Prouteau, Gilbert.  Nouvelle Anthologie des Textes Sportifs de la Litterature (New Anthology of Texts of Sport Literature).  Paris: Amiot Dumont, 1951.

Souchon, Paul and May, Jacques.  La Litterature Sportive Contemporaine (Contemporary Sport Literature).  Paris: Numero Special du Monde Nouveau, 1924.

Becher, Johannes Robert. Lasst eure Verse teilnehmen am Sportfest (Let Your Poetry Partake in the Sports Festival). Berlin: Sportverlag, 1970.

Brecht, Bertolt. Gedichte, Parabeln und Geschichten zum Sport (Poems, Paraboles, and Stories about Sport). Berlin: Sportsverlag Berlin, 1989.

Brechbühl, Beat. Die Schrittmacher: Sportgedichte (The Pacemaker: Sports Poems). Pforzheim: Harlekin-Presse, 1974.

Diem, Carl, ed.  Poesie der Leibesubungen (Poetry of Physical Training / Gymnastics). Berlin:  Verlag von August Reher, 1925.

Diem, Carl Von, ed.  Poesie Des Sports (Sports Poems).   Stuttgart:  Olympischer  Sport Verlag, 1957.

Fischer, Nanda. Sports als Literatur: Traumhelden, Sportgirls und Geschlechterspiele (Sports as Literature: Dream Heroes, Sport Girls and Gender Games). Druck: Steininger Offsetdruk, 1999.

Goldman, Bernd and Schwank, Bernhard, eds.  Sportgeschichent (Sports Stories). Frankfurt am Main:  Insel Verlag, 1993.

Gurlitt, Fritz.  Sport Brevier (Sports Readings).  Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, 1920.

Kirsch, Rainer and Wolter, Manfred. Olympische Spiele: Gedichte (Olympic Games: Poems). Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1972.

Konitzer, Willi Fr.  Zwifschen Start und Ziel Olympilsche Strophen (Olympic Verse between Start and Finish). Breslau:  Ferdinand Hirt, 1936.

Neuhäusler, Anton Otto. Gedichte u. Sportberichte (Poems and Sports Commentaries). München: Ehrenwirth, 1972.

Leis, Mario. Sport in der Literatur : Einblicke in das 20. Jahrhundert (Sport in Literature: An Insight into the 20^th Century). Frankfurt am Main and New York: P. Lang, 2000.

Rosch, Heinz-Egon.  Geschichten vom Sport (Stories from Sport).  Mainz:  Topos-Taschenbucher, 1984.

Wegener, Helmut Otto. Klein-Kariertes Betont Sportlich. Ill.: Fritz Swoboda. Oelde Holterdorf, 1968.

Wittstock, Uwe.  Sport-Stories.  Frankfurt am Main:  Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1993.

Tarjan, Tamas.  Fakuta:  Parbajok, kartyacsatak, jatekok, sportagak a magyar  novellisztikaban (Duels, Card Battles, Games, and Sports in Hungarian Short Stories). Budapest:  Magyar Konyvklub, 1994.

Jökulsdóttir, Elisabet. Fótboltasögur: tala saman strákar (Soccer Stories : Let's Talk, Chaps). Reykjavík: Mál og Menning, 2001.

Barrera López , J.M., et al. Ludus : gioco, sport, cinema nell'avanguardia spagnola. (Ludus: Art, Sport, and Cinema on the Vanguard). Milano: Jaca Book, 1994.

Brunamontini, Guiseppe.  Anthologia della Letteratura Sportiva Italiana (An Anthology of Italian Sport Literature).  Roma:  Societa Stampa Sportiva, 1984.

D'Orrico, Antonio.  Momenti di Gloria:  Un Antologia di Sport e Litteratura (Moment of Glory: An Anthology of Sport and Literature). Milano, Italy:  Leonardo Editore, 1992.

Roffarè, Luigi. La repubblica di Venezia e lo Sport (The Republic of Venice and Sport). Venezia: G. Scarabellin, 1931.

Liponski, Wojciech. Sport, literature, Sztuka (Sport, Literature, and Art). Warsaw: Sport I Turystyka, 1974.

Rymiewicz, Aleksander. Sniezne i blekitne stadiony : poezje sportowe (Snowy and Sky-Blue Stadiums: Sports Poetry). Warszawa : Sport i Turystyka,1979.

Francisco, José do Carmo, ed. O Desporto na Poesia Portuguesa (Sport in Portugese Poetry). Lisboa : Sindicato dos Bancários do Sul e Ilhas, 1989.

Rozhdestvenshii, Robert Ivanovich. Ne Prosto Sport (Not only Sports). Moskva: Fizkul'tura i spor, 1976.

Fuentes, Maria de los Reyes.  Cuaderno de Poesia al Deporte (Logbook of Sports Poetry).  Sevilla:  El Comite Ejecutivo de los Juegos Deportivos de Otono, 1971.

Hesse, Jose, ed.  El Deporte En El Siglo De Oro Antologia (An Anthology of Sport in the Golden Century). Madrid:  Taurus, Ediciones, 1967.

Morell, Antonio Gallego.  Literatura de Tema Deportivo (Literature with Sporting Themes).  Madrid: Editorial Prensa Espanola, 1969.

Morelli, Gabrield, ed. . Ludus: Cine, Arte y Deporte en la Literatura Española de Vanguardia (Play: Cinema (movies) Art, and Sport on the Vanguard of Spanish Literature) Valencia: Pre-textos, 2000.

Biener, Kurt.  Olympia, Olympia Sportgedichte ( Olympia, Olympia Sports Poems)  Derendingen-Solothurn, Schweiz:   Habegger Verlag, 1958.

Adams, Roger, comp. Famous Writers on Cricket. London: Patridge, 1988.

Allen, David Rayvern, ed. More than a Game: A Classic Cricket Collection. London: Gollanz, 1995.

Armiger, Charles. The Sportsman’s Vocal Cabinet. London: T. Griffiths, 1830.

Austin, A. B. An Angler’s Anthology. London: Country Life Limited, 1931.

Bold, Alan N. Scotland, Yes: World Cup Football Poems. Edinburgh: P. Harris, 1978.

Bold, Alan.  The Poetry of Motion:  An Anthology of Sporting Verse.  Edinburgh:  Mainstream Publishing, Date of Publication Unknown.

Byrne, John.  Modern Sport's Writers:  A Collection of Prose.  London:  Publisher Unknown, 1982.

Bright-Holmes, ed. Lord’s and Commons: Cricket in Novels and Stories. London: Penguin, 1990.

Davie, Michael and Davie, Simon, eds. The Faber Book of Cricket. London: Faber, 1987.

Dickie, John M. ed. Great Angling Stories. Edinburgh: Chambers, 1988.

Fife, Duncan. Scarlet, Blue and Green: A Book of Sporting Verse. London, Macmillan and Co., 1932.

Lee, Christopher, ed. Through the Covers: An Anthology of Cricket Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Moult, Thomas, ed.  Bat and Ball, A New Book of Cricket.  London:  A. Barker, Ltd., 1935.

Moult, Thomas, ed.  Great Stories of Sport.  London:  Stein, 1931.

Muirhead, James Patrick, ed. Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks. London: J. Murray, 1857.

Osborn, Edward Bolland, ed. Anthology of Sporting Verse. London: W. Collins Sons and Co., Ltd. 1930.

Parker, Eric, ed. The Lonsdale Anthology of Sporting Prose and Verse. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1932.

Peek, Hedley, ed. The Poetry of Sport. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896.

Profumo, David and Swift, Graham, eds. The Magic Wheel: An Anthology of Fishing Literature. London: Picador, 1985.

Rodda, John and Makins, Clifford, eds.  The Sporting Year:  A Selection of the Best Sports Writing of 1976-77.  London:  Collins, 1977.

Scannell, Vernon.  Sporting Literature: An Anthology.  Oxford:   Oxford University Press, 1987.

Sommerville, William. The Chase, Field Sport, Rural Games and Other Poems. Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., 1812.

American Girls Magazine Editors.  The American Girl Book of Sports Stories.  New York:  Random House, 1965.

Bandy, Susan J., ed.  Coroebus Triumphs: An Alliance of Sport and the Arts.   San Diego:  San Diego State University Press, 1988.

Bandy, Susan J. and Darden, Anne S., eds.  Crossing Boundaries:  An International Anthology of Women’s Experiences in Sport.  Champaign-Urbana:  Human Kinetics, 1999.

Battista, Garth, ed.  The Runner's Literary Companion.  New York:  Breakaway Books, 1994.

Berman, N.D. Playful Fictions and Fictional Players: Game, Sport, and Survival in Contemporary American Fiction. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press., 1981.

Blake, Kathleen. Play, Games and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.

Blaustein, Noah, ed. Motion: American Sports Poems. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.

Brady, John, and Hall, James, eds.  Sports Literature. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill, 1974.

Buchwald, Emilie and Roston, Ruth, eds.  This Sporting Life: Contemporary American Poems about Sports and Games.  Minneapolis:  Milkweed Editions, 1987.

Chapin, Henry B., ed.  Sports in Literature.  New York:  David McKay and Company, Inc., 1976.

Cocchiarale,Michael and Emmert, Scott, eds. Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, forthcoming in 2004.

Da Silva, Rachel.  Leading Out:  Women Climbers Reaching for the Top.  Seattle:  Seal Press, 1992.

Dodge, Tom.  A Literature of Sports.  Lexington, Massachusetts:  D. C. Heath and Company, 1980.

Donnelly, M.A.,ed. Best Book of Sports Stories. New York: Doubleday and Co, 1966.

Emra, Bruce.  Sports in Literature.  Chicago:  National Textbook Company, 1992.

Emra, Bruce. Sports in Literature: Experiencing the Thrill of Competition through Stories, Poems, and Nonficton. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 2000.

Fleming, Alice.  Hosannah the Home Run:  Poems About Sport.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company, 1972.

Foster, John, comp.  Sports Poems.  New York:  Oxford, 1991.

Francis, Dick and Welcome, J., eds. The New Treasury of Great Racing Stories.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1992.

Furman, A. L., ed.  Everygirls Sports Stories.  New York:   Lantern Press, 1956.

Grayson, Charles, ed . The Sportsman's Hornbook. New York, Random House, 1933.

Haynes, Williams and Harrison, Joseph LeRoy, eds.  Camp-fire Verse.  New York:   Duffield and Company, 1917.

Haynes, Williams and Harrison, Joseph LeRoy, eds.  Winter Sports Verse.  New York:   Duffield and Company, 1919.

Higgs, Robert J. Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981.

Higgs, Robert J. and Isaacs, Neil D., eds.  The Sporting Life: Athletes in Literature and Life.  Atlanta:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1977.

Hoey, Allen ed.  Wetting Our Lines Together:  An Anthology of Recent North American Fishing Poems.  Syracuse, N.Y.:   Tamarack Editions, 1982.

Houston, Pam, ed.  Women on Hunting.  Hopewell, New Jersey:  Ecco Press, 1995.

Hyman, Laurence, J. and Thorpe, Laura, eds. Tales of the Diamond: Gems of Baseball Fiction. San Francisco: Woodford Press, 1991.

Irwin, William Robert, ed. Challenge: An Anthology of the Literature of Mountaineering. New York: Columbia University, 1950.

Jacob, Allan D. and Jacobs, Leland, eds.  Sports and Games in Verse and Rhyme. Champaign, Illinois:  Garrard Publishing Company, 1975.

Johnson, Don, ed.  Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves:  Contemporary Baseball Poems. Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Johnson, Donald. Sporting Muse: A Critical Study of Poetry about Athletes and Athletics. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, forthcoming in 2004.

Kelley, Robert F., ed.  The Junior Sports Anthology.  New York:  Howell, Soskin, 1945.

Kelley, Robert F., ed.  The Sportsman's Anthology.  New York:   Howell, Soskin, Publishers, 1944.

Klein, H. Arthur and Klein, M.C., eds. Surf’s Up! An Anthology of Surfing. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1966.

Knudson, R. R. and Swenson, eds. American Sports Poems. New York: Orchard Books, 1988.

Knudson, R.R. and Ebert, P.K., eds.  Sports Poems. New York:   Dell, 1971.

Lavin, Albert L., ed.  Action!  An Anthology of Writing about Sports.  New York:   Harcourt, Brace and World, 1970.

Marsh, Irving T. and Ehre, Edward.  Best of the Best Sports Stories. New York:  E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1964.

Martz, Sandra, ed.  Atalanta.  Los Angeles:  Papier-Mache Press, 1984.

Martz, Sandra, ed.  More Golden Apples.  Manhattan Beach, California:  Papier-Mache Press, 1986.

McGuane, Thomas, ed.  The Best American Sports Writing 1992.  New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Messenger, Christain K. Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

Messenger, Christian K. Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Morris, Holly, ed.  A Different Angle:  Fly Fishing Stories by Women.  Seattle:  Seal Press, 1995.

Morris, Holly, ed.  Uncommon Waters:  Women Write about Fishing.  Seattle:  Seal Press, 1991.

Morrison, Lillian.  Rhythm Road:  Poems to Move To.  New York:  Lothrop, Lee, & Shephard Books, 1988.

Morrison, Lillian, comp.  Sprints and Distances:  Sports in Poetry and the Poetry in Sport.  New York:  Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965.

Nauen, Elinor, ed.  Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend:  Women Writers on Baseball.  Boston:  Faber and Faber, 1994.

Nauen, Elinor, ed.  Ladies, Start Your Engines:  Women Writers on Cars and the Road.  Boston:  Faber and Faber, 1996.

Niemi, Judith and Wieser, Barbara, eds.  Rivers Running Free:  Stories of Adventurous Women.  Minneapolis:  Bergamat Books, 1987.

Oriard, Michael. Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982.

Oriard, Michael. Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Porter, Henry Van Arsdale, comp. An Athletic Anthology. De Kalb, Ill: Publisher Unknown, 1930.

Randolph, John, ed. Fly Fishing Tales: Literary Bait By Angling Authors.
New York, NY: Viking Studio Books, 1994 

Rapoport, Ron, ed.  A Kind of Grace:  A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women. Berkeley, California:  Zenobia Press, 1994.

Rice, Grantland and Powel, Harford, eds.  The Omnibus of Sport. New York:  The Junior Literary Guild and Harper and Brothers, 1932.

Rice, Wallace, comp.  The Athlete's Garland:  A Collection of Verse in Sport and Pastime.   Chicago:  A.C. McClurg and Company, 1905.

Salkeld, Audrey and Smith, Rosie, eds.  One Step in the Clouds:  An Omnibus of Mountaineering Novels and Short Stories.  San Francisco:  Sierra Club Books, 1990.

Sandoz, Joli, ed.  A Whole Other Ballgame:  Women’s Literature on Women’s Sport. New York:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Sandoz, Joli and Winans, Joby, eds.  Whatever it Takes: Women on Women’s Sport. New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Schinto, Jeanne.  Show Me a Hero:  Contemporary Stories about Sports.  New York:  Persea Books, 1995.

Schulman, L.M. ed.  Winners and Losers:  An Anthology of Great Sports Fiction. New York:  Macmillan, 1968.

Schweb, Peter and Wind, Herbert Warren, eds. Great Stories from the World of Sport. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958.

Siner, Howard, ed. Sports Classics: American Writers Choose Their Best. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983.

Stange, Mary Zeiss, ed. Heart Shots: Women Write about Hunting. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2003.

Staudohar, Paul D. ed. Boxing's Best Short Stories. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1999. 

Stine, Peter, ed.  Sports in America. Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Stout, Glenn, ed.  The Best American Sports Writing 1991.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.

Stout, Glenn, ed.  The Best American Sports Writing 1992. New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Trudell, Dennis, ed. Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball. New York:

Breakaway Books, 1996.

Twin, Stephanie.  Out of the Bleachers:  Writings on Women and Sport.  Old Westbury, N.Y.:  Feminist Press, 1979.

Umphlett, Wiley Lee. Achievement of American Sport Literature. Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991.

Umphlett, Wiley Lee. The Sporting Myth and the American Experience: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Lewisburg, PA.: Bucknell University Prees, 1974.

Vanderwerken, David and Wertz, Spencer K., eds. Sport Inside Out: Readings in Literature and Philosophy. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1985.

Wind, Herbert Warren, ed.  The Realm of Sport.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Wise, Suzanne.    Sports Fiction for Adults:  An Annotated Bibliography of Novels, Plays, Short Stories, and Poetry with Sporting Settings.  New York:  Garland Publishing Inc., 1986.

Galeano, Eduardo H. Su Majestad el Fútbol (The Majesty of Football). Montevideo: Arca Editorial, 1968.

Laurino, José, ed. Boxeo: Tema Literario (Boxing: Literary Themes). Montevideo: Estudio Gráficos de CBA, 1972.

Aquirre, Mariano, ed. El Deporte y los Cuentos (Sport and the Short Story). Caracas: El Diario de Caracas, 1979.

 
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