SCOPE: The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the student in locating library resources on the topic of professional sports. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the sources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of the many resources that are available. Some of the subjects included are sports contracts, athletes, and sports economics.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with professional sports are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under the following subject headings:

Athletes
Professional sports United States
Professional sports Economic aspects United States
Professional sports contracts United States
Sports

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF GV 867.64.R52 2000 Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

REF GV 709.S44 1996 Encyclopedia of Women and Sports

REF GV 567.E56 1996 Encyclopedia of World Sport from Ancient Times to the Present

REF GV 709.I58 2000 International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports

REF HD 9992.U5S667 Sports Marketplace

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Boyle, Raymond and Richard Haynes. Power Play: Sport, the Media & Popular Culture. England: Pearson Education Limited, 20002.

Delaney, Kevin. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building Sports Stadiums. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Eitzen, D. Stanley. Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

Forney, Craig A. The Holy Trinity of American Sports: Civil Religion in Football, Baseball, and Basketball. Macon,GA: mercer University Press, 2007.

Gerdy, John R. Sports: The All-American Addiction. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

Jozsa, Frank P. American Sports Empire: How the Leagues Breed Success. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2003.

Klatell, David A. & Norman Marcus. Inside Big Time Sports: Television, Money & the Fans. New York: Mastermedia Limited, 1996.

Platt, Larry. New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, and the American Athlete. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Fizel, John, ed. Sports Economics: Current Research. Westport, Con: Praeger, 1999.

Lupica, Mike. Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fansand How We Get It Back. New York: Putnam, 1996.

Perrin, Dennis. American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture that Feeds It. New York: Spike, 2000.

Quirk, James P. Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Quirk, James P. Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Staudohar, Paul D. Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1996.

Zimbalist, Andrew S. The Bottom Line: Some Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the subject of professional sports:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

Recreation & Sports

Journal of Leisure Research

WEB SITES

The Business of Baseball
http://www.businessofbaseball.com/
Interesting site covering all aspects of professional baseball including players salaries(1985 to 2004), league attendance, interviews, as well as other base-ball related topics.

CNN/SI
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
Up-to-date news, scores and results from all manner of sports, plus feature articles.

Current Biography Excerpts
http://www.hwwilson.com/currentbio/cbonline.html
Looking for a biography of your favorite athlete? This site probably has it. It has short biographies for lots of athletes in lots of different sports.

NBA.com
http://www.nba.com/
"Official Site of the National Basketball Association". Information on players, teams, scores.

Major League Soccer
http://www.mlsnet.com/
This is the official web site of Major League Soccer, the U.S. first division professional league that began play in 1996. It contains news, results, standings, match previews and summaries, league and team statistics, links to other soccer sites as well as general information about the league and each of its teams. It is updated daily, and browsable by area of specific interest.

U. S. Soccer Federation
http://www.ussoccer.com/
Official web site of the USSF, the governing body of Soccer in the United States. The USSF is responsible for overseeing the sport at all levels, from youth to professional. It conducts the training and certification of referees and coaches, oversees competitions such as the US Open Cup, and organizes US national teams. This site contains information on all the above and is browsable by topic.

Professional Golfer's Association
http://www.pga.com/home/
This offical site of the PGA offers comprehensive information about past and upcoming PGA tournaments, the PGA leaderboard,the PGA schedule, the PGA tour, news, ticket sales, equipment sales, golf learning tips, and a job center for employers, job seekers, including information on university professional golf management programs.

Official Ryder Cup Web Site
http://www.pga.com/rydercup/2006/usa/
This site contains news, history rules and other information for the Ryder Cup competition. It is both browsable and searchable, and even includes an online version of the Ryder Cup official programme.

National Football League
http://www.nfl.com/
This is the official NFL web site, with full news and statistics. Browsable by topic.

NASCAR Online
http://www.nascar.com/
The official NASCAR web site, with full news, results, and standings. Browsable by topic.

African-Americans in the Sports Arena
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm
This online exhibit represents a glimpse into the history of sports and the role the African American played in that arena. The early history is a major focus of this exhibit, because it covers the "divided" and later "crossover" era for African Americans who were mostly excluded from the larger sports arena due to their race. On view are seven major sporting events - boxing, horse racing, cycling, track and field, basketball, baseball, and football - which opened the doors to the expanding Sports Arenas of today. Books, photoprints, tapes, replicated sports memorabilia, periodicals, news clips, and lots of historical notes are represented.

Updated 07/24/2008