Richard Crepeau, Ph.D.

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Campus Location: CNH 544
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Education

Research Interests

20th Century U. S. , Cultural History, Sport History

Selected Publications

Books

Melbourne Village: The First Twenty-Five Years. University of Central Florida Press, 1988.

Baseball: America's Diamond Mind, 1919-1941. Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1980.

Articles/Essays

“Retrospective Review, Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and his Legacy, 25th Anniversary Edition by Jules Tygiel,” Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, volume 1, number 2, Fall, 2008, 106-108.

“Remembering Jules Tygiel,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2008, 93-97

“The End of a Beautiful Relationship,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2008, 20-22

“Forum: Law and Order: Sport and the Warren Burgher Court, The Flood Case.” Journal of Sport History, Volume 34, No. 2 (Summer 2007), 183-191

"The View from Left Field: Recapturing Cubdom," Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol.22, No.1, 2005, pp. 24-25.

"A Decade of Commenting on Baseball: The Ridiculous and the Sublime." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003, 44-63.

"The View from Left Field: The Joy of Futility," Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2003, 6-7.

Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, XX, no.1, Fall, 2002. Twentieth Anniversary Issue devoted entirely to a collection of commentary on Sport and Society consisting of 83 essays written between 1991 to 2001.

"Ali, No One Better Known, No One More Admired," de Sportwereld, No. 28, 2002, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, p. 8.

"The Importance of Being Major League: The Cultural Roots of Public Stadia Financing in the USA," Sport and Politics-The Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, July 14-19,1999, Budapest, Hungary.

"If I Were Commissioner." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspective, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1997.

"An Evening with Michael in the Minors." Elysian Fields, 1994-5.

"Fan Notes, 1993." NINE: A Journal of Baseball and Social Policy Perspective, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1994, 387-390.

(Coauthored) "The Eddie Scissons Syndrome." Aethlon, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1991, 175-184.

"Coover's Grand Slam." Aethlon, Vol. VII, No. 1, 1989, 113-120.

"Baseball Immortality &Ray Dandridge." Baseball History, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1987/1988, 63-64.

"The Jake Powell Incident and the Press." Baseball History, I, 2, 1986, 32-46.

"Not the Cincinnati Reds: Anti-Communism in Recent Baseball Literature." Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, Vol. I, No. 1, 1983, 87-97.

"Pearl Harbor: A Failure for Baseball," Journal of Popular Culture XV, No. 4, 1982, 67-74.

"Sport, Heroes, and Myth." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 4, No. 2, 1980, 23-31.

"A Step Over the Edge: The Image of Sport in Thomas Klise's The Last Western." Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 1979.

"Punt or Bunt: A Note on Sport in American Culture." Journal of Sport History III, 1976, 205-212. reprinted in Sport Sociology: Contemporary Themes, 2nd Ed., Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1979.

"Urban and Rural Images in Baseball." Journal of Popular Culture IX, 1975, 315-324.

Book Sections/Chapters

Introduction to Baseball in America and America in Baseball: The Webb Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures. Texas A&M University Press for the University of Texas, Arlington: College Station, Texas, 2008.

"The Civil Rights Movement: Race and Civil Society," Chapter in American Society: Essays on History and Culture, edited by A.A. Maslennikova, G. Garvey, and A.V. Zelenschikov. St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg State University Publishing House, 2007.

"Babe Ruth and the Feature Film: The Muddling of a Myth," in Reel Baseball, McFarland and Company Inc: Jefferson, NC, 2003.

"Hockey Internationale." Putting it on Ice, Volume II: Internationalizing Canada's Game, The Grosebrook Research Institute, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (2003) 133-4.

"The Uncertainty of History, in One for the Higger: Jack Higgs, A Man for All Seasons, East Tennessee State University and Sport Literature Association Publication, 81-90.

"Where Have you Gone Frank Meriwell" in American Sport Culture: The Humanistic Dimension. The Bucknell University Press: Lewisberg Pensylvania, 1985.

Awards

 

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number Course Title Mode Date and Time
21533 AMH3611 SPORT IN AMERICA SINCE 1945 Face2Face Tu,Th 3:00PM - 4:15PM
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19904 AMH3930H HON SPECIAL TOPIC Face2Face M 6:00PM - 8:50PM
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21547 AMH6939 SEMINAR IN U.S. HISTORY Face2Face Th 6:00PM - 8:50PM
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