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

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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)

• Baseball Research Journal (published by the Society for American Baseball Research; 1972-), ed. by Bill James (partial serial archives)

• Balldom: "The Britannica of Baseball", Comprising the Growth of the Game in Detail (New York: Balldom Pub. Co., c1914), by George L. Moreland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Game (St. Louis: National Game Pub. Co., 1910), by Alfred H. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball (1845-1881), From the Newspaper Accounts (supplements for later years exist, but appear to be still under copyright; this volume Altadena, CA: The author, c1961), by Preston D. Orem (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball (1845-1881), From the Newspaper Accounts (supplements for later years exist, but appear to be still under copyright; this volume Altadena, CA: The author, c1961), by Preston D. Orem (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Game (St. Louis: National Game Pub. Co., 1910), by Alfred H. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov
• The Book of Baseball: The National Game From the Earliest Days to the Present Season (New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1911), by William Patten and J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pitching in a Pinch; or, Baseball from the Inside (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Christy Mathewson, contrib. by John N. Wheeler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov

• Blue Ice: The Story of Michigan Hockey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by John U. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Study of Man (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Bliss, Sands, and Co., 1898), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; With an Edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke, The Most Noble, Auncient, And learned Playe (1563) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Ann E. Moyer, contrib. by Ralph Lever and William Fulke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)
• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Four Histories About Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920: Constructing Discourses (London: University College London Press, 2016), by Nicholas Piercey
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

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

• Player Win Averages: A Computer Guide to Winning Baseball Players (S. Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; London: T. Yoseloff, 1970), by Eldon G. Mills and Harlan D. Mills (PDF at Tennessee)

• Baseball Cyclopedia (New York: Baseball Magazine Co., c1922), by Ernest J. Lanigan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Spalding's Official Base Ball Record (partial serial archives)

• Official Report of the Olympic Games (slight variations in titles over the years; not all listed reports available) (partial serial archives)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Negro in Sports (San Francisco: Daily People's World, ca. 1947), by Nat Low, illust. by Pele Edises (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Facts on Communism (2 volumes, 1959-1960), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities
  • Volume I (The Communist Ideology): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (The Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Pageant of Russian History (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, 1950), by Elizabeth Seeger, illust. by Bernard Watkins and Erik Magons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief History of Russia (2 volumes; New York: International Publishers, c1933), by M. N. Pokrovskiĭ, trans. by D. S. Mirsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fifth Year of the Russian Revolution: A Report of a Lecture (New York: Workers Party of America, ca. 1923), by James Patrick Cannon (HTML at marxists.org)

• The Stalin Era (Altadena, CA: Today's Press, 1956), by Anna Louise Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Another View of Stalin, by Ludo Martens
  • Part 1: PDF at plp.org
  • Part 2: PDF at plp.org
  • Part 3: PDF at plp.org

• Soviet Democracy and the War (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)

• With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia (1920), by John Ward (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Autonomy: Challenge and/or Solution, ed. by Vilmos Ágoston, trans. by Éva Lengyel, Iván Sellei, and Gabor Rózsa (HTML at Corvinus Library)

• Debs Makes New Relief Appeal: Asks Machinery and Tools for Soviet Russia (ca. 1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia, contrib. by Eugene V. Debs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Europe's Great Calamity: The Russian Famine, An Appeal for the Russian Peasant (London: F. Griffiths, 1922), by W. Barnes Steveni (page images at HathiTrust)
• F. S. R. Relief Shipments From American Workers to Russian Workers (1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Have You a Heart? Then Give! (ca. 1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Productive Relief for Soviet Russia (with pictorial insert; ca. 1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia
  • text portion; multiple formats at archive.org
  • pictorial portion; multiple formats at archive.org
• The Russian Famine: Forty Facts (ca. 1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Russian Famine: One Year of Relief Work (ca. 1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Russian Famine: Pictures; Appeals (ca. 1921), by Friends of Soviet Russia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• To the Workers of the World! (ca. 1922), by Friends of Soviet Russia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Z'Istorii Tsaria Holoda (in Ukrainian; Winnipeg: Nakl. Ukraïnsʹkykh Robitnychykh Visteĭ, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Through Starving Russia: Being a Record of a Journey to Moscow and the Volga Provinces, in August and September, 1921 (London: Methuen and Co., c1921), by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)

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