Steven A Rie

Biographic Data

ID504885
NAMESteven A Rie
GIVEN NAMESSteven A
FAMILY NAMERie
SIGNATURERIE S A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Cracks in the Outfield Wall

    Open AccessSteven A Rie, Steven A RiessARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Bloomer Girls

    Steven A Rie, Steven A RiessARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Debra A. Shattuck has spent three decades studying the participation of girls and women in baseball, producing the most thorough study of women's participation in the sport during the nineteenth century. In her much-awaited study she argues that baseball evolved from a gender-neutral child's game and demonstrates that playing baseball was not exclusively a male activity since girls and women “actively (although not always consciously) resisted th…

  • The Kentucky Derby

    Steven A Rie, A Rie et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    James C. Nicholson grew up in the horse-racing industry and was born to write the history of the Kentucky Derby, the preeminent American event for three-year-old Thoroughbreds that annually draws more than 150,000 people to Churchill Downs for a two-week festival and the race. The book is based on his dissertation at the University of Kentucky. Nicholson argues that the derby is unique because of its association with the myths and romantic symbol…

  • Neil Lanctot, Negro League Baseball

    Steven A RieARTICLEThe Journal of African American…2005

  • Historical Perspectives on Sport and Public Policy

    Open AccessSteven A Rie, Steven A RiessARTICLEReview of Policy Research1998Cited by: 2References: 8

  • City Games

    Jay Mechling, Steven A Rie et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1992

  • Professional Baseball and Social Mobility

    Steven A Rie, Steven A RiessARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1980Cited by: 1

    Professional Baseball and Social Mobility Professional sports in America, along with the church, crime, entertainment, and politics have long been regarded as valuable alternate avenues of upward mobility for poor and uneducated, but talented and ambitious young men. Contemporaries and historians have both assumed that sport was an area of American life where youths made it on their own, regardless of social background. Unfortunately, historians …