Published Resources for Sports Geography

Adams, Robert L.A., and John F. Rooney, Jr. 1984. Condo Canyon: An examination of emerging golf landscapes in America. North American Culture 1: 211-221.

Adams, Robert L.A., and John F. Rooney, Jr. 1985. Evolution of American golf facilities. Geographical Review 75 (4): 419-438.

Ashley, R.M. 1988. Using interest in high school sports to develop geography’s five themes. The Illinois Geographical Society 30 (2): 37-40.

Association of American Geographers. 2004. Guide to Geography Programs in North America 2003-2004. Washington: Association of American Geographers.

Bale, John R. 1978. Geographical diffusion and the adoption of professionalism in football in England and Wales. Geography 63 (3): 188-197.

Bale, John R. 1979. A geography of world class track and field athletes. Sports Exchange World 4: 26-31.

Bale, John R. 1979. Track and field regions of Europe. Physical Education Review 2 (2): 87-90.

Bale, John R. 1980. Football clubs as neighbors. Town and Country Planning 49 (3): 93-94.

Bale, John R. 1980. The adoption of football in Europe: An historical-geographical perspective. Canadian Journal of History of Sport and Physical Education 11 (2): 56-66.

Bale, John R. 1980. Women’s football in England and Wales. Physical Education Review 3: 137-145.

Bale, John R. 1981. Cricket in pre-Victorian England. Area 13: 119-122.

Bale, John R. 1981. Geography, sport and geographical education. Geography 66 (2): 104-115.

Bale, John R. 1982. Sports history as innovation diffusion. Canadian Journal of the History of Sport 15: 38-63.

Bale, John R. 1983. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland, and Wales. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Bale, John R. 1986. Sport and national identity: A geographical view. British Journal of Sports History 3: 18-41.

Bale, John R. 1987. The muscle drain: Foreign student-athletes in American universities. Sport Place 1 (2): 3-15.

Bale, John R. 1988. Rustic and rational landscapes of cricket. Sport Place 2 (2): 5-16.

Bale, John R. 1989. Sports Geography. London: E. & F.N. Spon.

Bale, John R. 1991. The Brawn Drain: Foreign Student-Athletes in American Universities. Urbana: University of Illinois.

Bale, John R. 1992. Cartographic fetishism to geographical humanism: Some central features of a geography of sport. Innovation in Social Sciences Research 5 (4): 71-88.

Bale, John R. 1994. Community, landscape, and identity: Horizons in a geography of sports. Occasional Paper, University of Keele Department of Geography 20.

Bale, John R. 1996. Space, place and body culture: Yi-Fu Tuan and a geography of sport. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 78 (3): 163-171.

Bale, John R. 1998. The place of ‘place’ in cultural studies in sports. Progress in Human Geography 12 (4): 507-524.

Bale, John R. 2003. Sports Geography – Second Edition. London: Routledge.

Bale, John R. The spatial development of the modern stadium. International Review for the Sociology of Sports 28 (2&3): 122-133.

Bowman, L.G. 1997. To save a minor league team: Night baseball comes to Shreveport, Louisiana. History 38 (2): 185-202.

Brailsford, Denis. 1987. The geography of eighteenth century English spectator sports. Sport Place 1 (1): 41-56.

Briley, R. 1997. More legacy of conquest: Long term ramification of the Major League Baseball shift to the West. Journal of the West 36 (2): 68-78.

Brun, Jean-Francois. 1990. Rugby a Treize: A French cultural marker. Sport Place International 4 (3): 30-33.

Brunner, C. 1990. Greenfield Stadia: Pie in the sky. American style out of town stadia, hailed as the answer to British troubles, are not in the best interests of the game. Leisure Management 10 (9): 57;59.

Butler, M. 1997. Confederate flags, class conflict, a golden egg, and castrated bulls: A historical examination of the Ole Miss-Mississippi State football rivalry. Journal of Mississippi History 59 (2): 123-139.

Cahse, James and Mickey Healey. 1995. The spatial externality effects of football matches and rock concerts: The case of Portman Road Stadium, Ipswich, Suffolk. Applied Geography 15 (1): 18-34.

Carlson, Albert S. 1942. Ski geography of New England. Economic Geographer 18: 307-320.

Cashman R., and T. Hickie. The divergent sporting cultures of Sydney and Melbourne. Sporting Traditions 7 (1): 26-46.

Coleman, A.G. 1996. The unbearable whiteness of skiing. Pacific Historical Review 65 (4): 583-614.

Comer, Jonathan C. and Tracy H. Newsome. 1996. Recent patterns of professional sports facility construction in North America. Sport Place 10 (1): 22-39.

Curtis, James R. 1989. The show and the sport: San Diego’s World Championship Over-the-Line Tournament. Sport Place International 3 (1&2): 18-23.

Dawson, D.D. 1995. Baseball calls: Arkansas town baseball in the Twenties. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 54 (4): 409-426.

DeChano, Lisa M. and Fred M. Shelley. 2004. Using sports to teach geography: Examples from Kansas City. Journal of Geography 103: 185-191.

Dobson, Stephen, and John Goddard. 1998. Performance, revenue, and cross subsidization in the Football League, 1927-1994. The Economic History Review 51 (4): 763-785.

Dow, Maynard W. 1978. The impact of communications media upon Red Sox fandom. Proceedings, New England-St. Lawrence Valley Division of the Association of American Geographers 8: 11-22.

Edgley, Charles. 1987. Beer, speed, and real men: Indianapolis during the month of May. Sport Place 1 (1): 20-26.

Essex, Stephen, and Brian Chalkley. 2004. Mega-sporting events in urban and regional policy: A history of the Winter Olympics. Planning Perspectives 19 (2): 201-232.

Eyton, J. Ronald. 1987. Morphometrics of the Chasquis Invitational Rocky Mountain Road Race. Sport Place 1 (2): 39-47.

Fairweather, Malcolm. 1975. Snowboarding in New York: An economic and spatial analysis. Proceedings, New England-St. Lawrence Valley Division of the Association of American Geographers 5: 32-35.

Farred, Grant. 2004. Fica and Veron-ismo: Race and silence in Argentine football. Leisure Studies 23 (1): 47-61.

Ferrett, Robert L., and Carl F. Ojala. 1992. Geographic shifts in divisional college football recruiting since the inception of Proposition 48. Sport Place 6 (1): 29-38.

Fien, J. and G. Lynn. 1982. The race course next door: Yea or nay? Geography Bulletin 14: 155-160.

Gattrell, A. and Peter Gould. 1979. A micro-geography of team games: geographical explanations of social relationships. Area 11: 275-278.

Gavin, T. 1979. Up from the mines and out from the steelworks: A study of regional variations in the production of top-flight professional footballers in Great Britain. South Hampshire Geographer 11: 22-34.

Goudge, Theodore L. 1983. Interscholastic athletic participation: a geographical analysis of opportunity and development. Proceedings, U.S. Olympic Academy 7: 165-202.

Griepentrog, Charles. 1992. Brothertown Fishing Club Ice Bowling Tournament. Sport Place. 6 (2): 21-26.

Griepentrog, Charles. 1996. The big rug: Carpet basketball in Wild Rose, Wisconsin. Sport Place 10 (1): 3-7.

Guha, Ramachandra. 1998. Cricket and politics in colonial India. Past and Present 161 (November) 155-190.

Gunter, Charles R. 1992. Stepping into the ring: The growth of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration from 1939-1990. Sport Place 6 (3): 19-33.

Handley, A.C., et. al. 1994. Youth soccer in the United States. Geographical Bulletin 36 (1): 3-20.

Harmon, J.E. 1985. Bowling regions in North America. Journal of Cultural Geography 6: 109-124.

Hawley, Fred. 1987. Cockfighting in the Pine Woods: Gameness in the New South. Sport Place 1 (2): 18-26.

Henderson, R.J. 1997. The 1963 Mississippi State University basketball controversy and the repeal of the Unwritten Law: “Something more than the game will be lost”. The Journal of Southern History 63 (4): 827-854.

Henzel, Jerry P. 1990. From rivers to rinks: A geographical analysis of the origins of ice hockey players. Sport Place International 4(3): 16-22.

Higham, James E.S., and Tom D. Hinch. Sport, space, and time: Effects of the Otago Highlanders franchise on tourism. Journal of Sport Management 17 (3): 235-261.

Horner, Arnold. 1993. Dublin’s expanding golfscape. Irish Geography 26 (2): 151-157.

Humphreys, D., C. Mason, and S. Pinch. 1983. The externality fields of football grounds: A case study of the Dell, Southampton. Geoforum 14: 401-411.

Katana, John J. 1986. The use and impact of sports in teaching geography. Pennsylvania Geographer 24 (1&2): 18-26.

Klein, M.L. 1993. Social-spatial conditions affecting women’s sports: The case of the Ruhr area. International Review for the Sociology of Sports 28 (2&3): 145-157.

Kouba, Leonard J. 1978. Shooting preserves in Illinois. Bulletin, Illinois Geographical Society 20 (1): 16-22.

Lewis, C. and M. McCarthy. 1977. The horse racing industry in Ireland. Irish Geography 10: 72-89.

Li, P. and Z. Han. 1998. The geographical distribution of sports talent nowadays. Sport Science (Beijing) 18 (1): 45-47.

Lipski, S. and G. McBoyle. 1991. The impact of global warming on downhill skiing in Michigan. East Lakes Geographer 26: 37-51.

Little, Andrew. 1990. The gridiron invasion: American football in Britain. Sport Place 4 (2): 20-25.

Loy, J. and W. Gudman. 1984. An analysis of sport pattern involvement using Zipf’s Law. North American Culture 1: 35-36.

Maguire, Joseph. 1990. American football: An emergent sport form in English society. Sport Place 4 (2): 3-14.

Maguire, Joseph. 1995. Common ground? Links between sports history, sports geography, and the sociology of sport. Sporting Traditions 12 (1): 3-25.

Manzo, Joseph T. 1987. A ball in the grass: An exploratory look at soccer in the United States. Sport Place 1 (1): 30-38.

Marsh, J. 1984. The economic impact of a small city annual event: An initial case study of the Peterborough League Atom Hockey Tournament. Recreational Service Review 11: 48-55.

McConnell, Harold, and David McCulloch. 1992. Phoenix is east of Atlanta: Toward a geographically rational NFL. Sport Place International 6 (1): 3-13.

McConnell, Harold. 1983. Floridians in major college football, 1981. Florida Geographer 17: 17-31.

McConnell, Harold. 1983. Southern major college football: Supply, demand, and migration of players. Southeastern Geographer 23 (2): 78-106.

McConnell, Harold. 1984. Recruiting patterns in Midwestern major college football. Geographic Perspectives 53: 27-43.

McConnell, Harold. 1990. Sunbelt versus Frostbelt: Geographical aspects of the Associated Press College Football Poll, 1936-1989.

McConnell, Harold. 1995. First the Frostbelt, then the Sunbelt, and now Big Florida: the all-time AP Football Poll, 1936-1995. Sport Place 9 (2): 5-32.

McEachern, Philip D., and Peter I. Russell. 1992. I heard it on the radio: Distribution of radio networks in Major League Baseball. Sport Place International 6 (3): 3-17.

Mitchell, Lisle S., and Richard V. Smith. 1989. The geography of recreation, tourism, and sport. In Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott, Geography in America. Columbus, OH: Merrill. pp. 387-408.

Moloney Smith, S. 1995. Meltdown in marketing professional ice hockey: A survey exploring geographical differences in strategy. Sport Marketing Quarterly 4 (3): 17-23.

Mossiman, T. 1985. Geo-ecological impacts of ski-piste construction in the Swiss Alps. Applied Geography 5 (1): 29-38.

Neilson, B. 1984. Dialogue with the city: The evolution of the baseball park. Landscape 29: 39-47.

Nelson, Elizabeth S. 1996. Orienteering in the United States: An analysis of the spatial distribution of club locations. Sport Place 10 (1): 8-21.

Ojala, Carl F. 1987. A geography of major interscholastic women’s sports in the United States. Geographical Bulletin 29: 24-43.

Ojala, Carl F., and Eldood J.C. Kureth. 1975. From Saskatoon and Parry Sound: A geography of skates and sticks in North America. Geographical Survey 4 (4): 177-198.

Ojala, Carl F., and Michael T. Gadwood. 1989. The geography of Major League Baseball player production, 1876-1988. Sport Place 3 (3): 24-35.

Ojala, Carl F., and Michael T. Gadwood. 1991. The geography of Major League Baseball player production, 1876-1989. Minneapolis Review of Baseball 10 (1): 31-44.

Oriard, M. 1976. Sport and space. Landscape 21: 32-40.

Pillsbury, Richard. 1974. Carolina thunder: A geography of southern stock car racing. Journal of Geography 73 (1): 39-47.

Pillsbury, Richard. 1989. A mythology on the brink: Stock car racing in the American South. Sport Place International 3 (3): 2-12.

Pleumaron, A. 1992. Course and effect: Golf tourism in Thailand. The Ecologist 22 (3): 104-110.

Praicheaux, Jean. 1992. For a geopolitical analysis of Olympic performance. Sport Place International 6 (2): 27-34.

Price, Robert J. 1988. The land forms of Scottish golf courses. Sport Place 2 (1): 3-14.

Raitz, Karl B. 1987. Perception of sports landscapes and gratification in the sport experience. Sport Place 1 (1): 5-19.

Raitz, Karl B. 1988. American fox hunting: Landscape ensemble and gratification. Sport Place 2 (3): 2-13.

Raitz, Karl B. 1995. The Theater of Sport. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Reiss, S. 1978. The geography and economics of professional ball parks: 1871-1930. Proceedings, North American Society for Sports History : 35-36.

Rimmer, P., and R. Johnston. 1967. Areas of community interest in Victoria as indicated by competitive sport. Australian Geographer 10: 311-313.

Roehl, W.S., R.B. Ditton, S.M. Holland, and R.R. Perdue. 1993. Developing new tourism products: Sport fishing in the southeast United States. Tourism Management 14 (4): 279-288.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1969. Up from the mines and out from the prairies: Some geographical implications of football in the United States. Geographical Review 59 (3): 471-492.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1970. A geographical analysis of football player production in Oklahoma and Texas. Proceedings, Oklahoma Academy of Science 50.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1981. Football and the New Southwest (1958-1976): A geographical approach. Journal of Regional Cultures 1 (1): 140-148.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1982. Intercollegiate athletic recruiting: A geographical analysis of its origin, diffusion, and potential demise. National Forum 62: 32-36.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1985. America needs a new intercollegiate sports system. Journal of Geography 84 (4): 139-143.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1986. The Pigskin Cult and other Sunbelt sports. American Demographics 8: 38-42.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1990. The time for minor league football and basketball is now. Sport Place International 4 (1): 17-21.

Rooney, John F., Jr. 1993. The golf construction boom, 1987-1993. Sport Place 7 (1): 15-22.

Rooney, John F., Jr. and Richard Pillsbury. 1992. Atlas of American Sport. New York: Macmillan.

Rooney, John F., Jr., and Stephen Higley. 1992. From Johns Island to Palm Springs: An analysis of the golf-real estate connection. Sport Place International 6 (2): 3-19.

Rumney, Thomas A. 1988. Rowing in America: A look from the sliding seat. Sport Place 2 (3): 32-39.

Rumney, Thomas A. 1995. The birth and development of winter sports landscapes in the Adirondacks: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Sport Place 9 (2): 33-40.

Sage, G., and J. Loy. 1978. Geographical mobility patterns of college coaches. Urban Life 7: 253-276.

Schnell, George A. 1986. Intercollegiate football in Pennsylvania: A geographical appraisal. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 60: 60-66.

Schultz, B. 2003. A geographical study of the American ballpark. International Journal of the History of Sport 20 (1): 126-142.

Sharp, Martin. 1984. The displacement of Australian test cricketers, 1876-1938. Australian Historical Geography Bulletin 6 (35-42).

Shaw, E. 1963. Geography and baseball. Journal of Geography 62: 74-76.

Shelley, Arlene M. and Fred M. Shelley. 1993. Changing migration patterns of Major League Baseball Players. Sport Place 7 (1): 23-35.

Shelley, Fred M. 1987. Geographical factors in fan support of Major League Baseball teams. North American Culture 3 (2): 30-36.

Shelley, Fred M., and Harold McConnell. 1993. So who’s number one? An investigation of geographical bias in the ranking of college football teams. Sport Place 7 (2): 19-29.

Shelley, Fred M., and K. Cartin. 1984. The geography of baseball fan support in the United States. North American Culture 1: 77-95.

Siegfried, John and Andrew Zimbalist. 2000. The economics of sports facilities and their communities. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (3): 95-114.

Stadler, S.J. and M.A. Simone. 1988. Applied macroanalysis of golf course environments. Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences 11: 34-42.

Szymanski, Stefan. 2000. A market test for discrimination in the English professional soccer leagues. The Journal of Political Economy 108 (3): 590-603.

Taylor, T., and K. Toohey. 1995. Ethnic barriers to sports participation. Australian Parks & Recreation 31 (2): 32-36.

Tervo, Mervi. 2001. Nationalism, sports, and gender in Finnish sports journalism in the early Twentieth Century. Journal of Feminist Geography 8 (4): 357-364.

Tooley, Chris. 1988. American cricket. Sport Place 2 (2): 17-18.

Wagner, P. 1981. Sport: Culture and geography. Lund Studies in Geography, Series B., Human Geography 48: 85-108.

Waitt, Gordon. 2003. Gay Games: Performing ‘community’ out from the closet of the locker room. Social & Cultural Geography 4 (2): 167-184.

Walker, Bruce. 1986. The demand for professional league football and the success of Football League teams: some city size effects. Urban Studies 23: 209-219.

Wall, Geoffrey V. and Kathryn Myers. 1989. Factors influencing attendance: Toronto Blue Jays games. Sport Place International 3 (1&2): 29-33.

Walton, M. 1984. The influence of the World Cup on international stereotypes. Teaching Geography 9: 203-207.

Waylen, P.R. 1990. Patterns of regional success in the Football League. Area 22 (4): 353-367.

Wepfer, A. 1984. The diffusion of volksmarching in the United States. Geographical Bulletin 26 (1): 9-28.

Whitelegg, Drew. 2000. Going for gold: Atlanta’s bid for fame. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24 (4): 801-818.

Wiggins, G.A., and P.T. Soule. 1992. The effects of weather and course topography on female dualthlon performance. Sport Place International 6 (1): 15-28.

Wiggins, G.A., and P.T. Soule. 1993. Environmental and topographical factors affecting male ‘middle-of-the-pack’ dualthlon performance. Geographical Bulletin 35 (2): 86-97.

Wikle, Thomas A. 1993. Spatial aspects of paddlesports in the United States. Sport Place 7 (1): 3-14.

Wood, T.F. 1987. Methods for assessing relative risk of damage to soils and vegetation arising from winter sports development in the Scottish Highlands. Journal of Environmental Management 25 (3): 253-270.

Yetman, Norman R., and D. Stanley Eitzen. Some social and demographic correlates of football productivity. Geographical Review 63 (4): 553-557.

Zagorianakos, Efthymis. 2004. Athens 2004 Olympic Games’ transportation plan: A missed opportunity for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) integration? Journal of Transport Geography 12 (2): 115-125.