Category: Athletics
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Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues
Winter 2014
Since Sam Regalado received his doctorate in history in 1987, he has
established himself as one of the leading authorities on the history of
baseball and the Hispanic population in the United States. Now a
professor at California State Universi...
Categories: Athletics, History, Cultural studies
Tags: Japanese-Americans, Baseball, Internment camps
ROD: A True Story
Fall 2008
Rod Retherford '84 triumphed as an undersized athlete, but his plucky comeback tale has always been told in spaces that were too small to fully contain it. There were plenty of headlines in 1980 after a bullet ripped through the football player's sho...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports
Winter 2005
Poetry in motion he wasn’t. At least not on the basketball court, even though 6’ 9” Jim McKean, his fadeaway jump shot, and his rebounding (he still holds the single-game Far West Classic rebounding record of 27, set against Princeton in 1967) ...
Categories: Memoirs, Athletics
Tags: Basketball
Bunion Derby: The 1928 Footrace Across America
Summer 2008
For generations, the 1920s have provided fodder for authors. The super-hyped sensationalism of those ballyhooed years seems a bottomless pool of entertaining topics. The decade of Lindbergh, Valentino, Capone, and Ruth, of flappers, Mah Jong, crosswo...
Categories: History, Athletics
Tags: Track and field