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• Soviet Sport: Mirror of Soviet Society (New York: Collier Books; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1963), by Henry W. Morton, contrib. by Michael T. Florinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soviet Sports (New York, NY: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, ca. 1945), by Eric A. Starbuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (c1993), by Robert Edelman (PDF at la84.org)

• Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (c1993), by Robert Edelman (PDF at la84.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Boys' Book of Sports (New York: The Century Co., 1917), by Grantland Rice
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Athletic Sports for Boys: A Repository of Graceful Recreations for Youth (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1866) (page images at MOA)

• The Tumult and the Shouting: My Life in Sport (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1954), by Grantland Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Gerard Heckscher (3 volumes in 1; Albany: The Argus Co., 1909), contrib. by John Gerard Heckscher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Greek Athletics (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925), by Christine Alexander (page images at Chicago)

• Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1897), by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Wild Norway (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Abel Chapman, illust. by Charles Whymper and Philip Chenevix Trench (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Peaks and Pines: Another Norway Book (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), by J. A. Lees (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Sports Illustrated (partial serial archives)
• The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895-1923), ed. by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (full serial archives)
• Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches (partial serial archives)
• The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (partial serial archives)
• Country Life (US magazine, 1901-1942) (partial serial archives)
• National Police Gazette (partial serial archives)
• New York Clipper (1853-1924) (partial serial archives)
• Outing (partial serial archives)

• Un Artisan d'Énergie Française: Pierre de Coubertin (in French; Paris: H. Didier, 1917), by Ernest Seillière (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Negro in Sports (revised edition; Washington: Associated Publishers, 1949), by Edwin Bancroft Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Victor Baseball Guide (New York et al.: Overmann Wheel Co., c1896)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Offensive Basketball (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1958), by Frank McGuire (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Basketball (Philadelphia and Lonon: W. B. Saunders Co., 1939), by Lon Walter Jourdet and Kenneth A. Hashagen, contrib. by Ralph Morgan and F. W. Luehring (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Football: Secrets of the "Split T" Formation (firth printing; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by Don Faurot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Foot-Ball for Players and Coaches (second edition, c1919), by Mark Beal Banks
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Primer of College Football (New York: Harper and Bros., 1896), by William H. Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gay Athletic Games I (official program, with proclamations from San Francisco and Boston mayors; San Francisco: Gay Athletic Games, 1982), contrib. by Dianne Feinstein and Kevin H. White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A-B-C of Golf, Illustrated (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1916), by John Duncan Dunn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf; With the Rules As Laid Down by the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1862) (multiple formats at Google)
• Fore! Life's Book for Golfers (New York: Life Pub. Co., 1900) (PDF (enter the title of the book to get to the PDF) at USGA Museum)
• Golf: A Complete History of the Game, Together With Directions for Selection of Implements, the Rules, and a Glossary of Golf Terms (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1908), by Horace G. Hutchinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Golf: A Royal and Ancient Game (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), ed. by Robert Clark
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Golf Clubs and How to Use Them (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1922), by Edward Ray
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Golf for Women (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., c1904), by Genevieve Hecker, contrib. by Rhona K. Adair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Golfers' Green Book, 1901: Containing Complete Details of the Golf Clubs Drawing Membership From Chicago, with a History of Golf Since Its Introduction to the West (Chicago: National Golf Bureau, c1901), ed. by Joseph E. G. Ryan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Handbook on Golf for Beginners (c1914), by Ralph Gannett Tyler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Treatise on Gymnasticks (Northampton, MA: S. Butler, 1828), by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, trans. by Charles Beck
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Brief History of the North American Gymnastic Union (Indianapolis: National Executive Committee of the North American Gymnastic Union, 1911), by Henry Metzner, trans. by Theodor Stempfel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Turner-Bundes (in German; Indianapolis, IN: Gedruckt in der office der "Zukunft," 1874), by Henry Metzner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• School Amusements: or, How to Make the School Interesting, by N. W. Taylor Root (page images at MOA)

• The Barefoot Hiker, by Richard Keith Frazine (illustrated HTML at bhthom.org)
• The Boy Scout's Hike Book (Garden City, NY:, Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Edward Cave (page images at HathiTrust)

• Skating; Figure-Skating (with additional contributions on curling, tobogganing, ice-sailing, and "bandy" (hockey); London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892), by J. M. Heathcote, C. G. Tebbutt, and T. Maxwell Witham, contrib. by John Kerr, Ormond Hake, and Henry A. Buck, illust. by Charles Whymper and R. M. Alexander (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity (c2010), by Emily Chivers Yochim (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Olympic Studies: Current Intellectual Crossroads (2002), by Lamartine Pereira da Costa (PDF at la84.org)

• Theory in Physical Education: A Guide to Program Change (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1963), by Camille Brown and Rosalind Cassidy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Teaching of Physical Education (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1937), by Jackson Roger Sharman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Checkley's Natural Method of Physical Training, Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus (Philadelphia: The Checkley Bureau, 1921), by Edwin Checkley, illust. by H. D. Eggleston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Lecture on Physical Development, and Its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, by Samuel Robert Calthrop (page images at MOA)
• A Natural Method of Physical Training, Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus (tenth edition; Brooklyn: W. C. Bryant and Co., 1890), by Edwin Checkley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Natural Method of Physical Training, Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus (new, revised and enlarged edition; Brooklyn: William C. Bryant and Co., 1895), by Edwin Checkley, illust. by H. D. Eggleston (page images at Google)
• The Physical Culture Life: A Guide for All Who Seek the Simple Laws of Abounding Health (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by H. Irving Hancock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Renaissance of the Greek Ideal (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Diana Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Conduct of Physical Education: Its Organization and Administration (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1937), by Mabel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dancing, Beauty, and Games (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1913), by Constance Stewart-Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Athletic Games in the Education of Women (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by Gertrude Dudley and Frances Kellor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observation Lessons in the Primary Schools: A Manual for Teachers (4 volumes in 1; Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1889-1890), by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.