Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, photographers have shaped how we perceive sports. Sports through the Lens collects essays by twenty-five historians that consider what it means to capture and revisit a moment of cultural significance in sports, looking at each photo's creation, its contexts, and how its meaning has shifted over time. Some essays provide fresh perspectives on such iconic images as Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston at their 1965 rematch and Michael Jordan soaring at the 1988 NBA All-Star Game slam dunk competition; others introduce readers to the lesser-known stories of the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon or the inaugural World Indigenous Games. The authors examine the photos' legacies alongside the artistry of both the athletes and the photographers. Reflecting on images of athletes from around the world engaged in sports from baseball to horse-racing to hockey, Sports through the Lens provides a wide-ranging meditation on the visual, historical, and cultural meaning of sports photographs.

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Introduction
1. The Making of a Non-Iconic Sports Photograph: John Hemment’s Salvator v. Tenny
2. The Slide: Ty Cobb Steals Third
3. The Long Count: Dempsey and Tunney
4. “Some Are Easy and Some Are Tough—That’s All There Is To It”: Nickolas Muray’s Portrait of Babe Ruth
5. Woman in White with an Outstretched Arm: Helene Mayer, 1936
6. The Odd Couple: Althea Gibson and Alice Marble, Forest Hills, 1950
7. Willie Mays and the Catch Heard ’Round the World
8. Jackie Robinson: Safe at Home
9. Alan Ameche from the One: The 1958 NFL Championship Game
10. The Moment of Truth: Ali-Liston II
11. When Push Came to Shove: Kathrine Switzer, Jock Semple, and the Boston Marathon
12. Perched Valor: The Black Power Photograph that Exposed Injustice and Transformed Generations
13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Broadway Joe: Joe Namath in Fort Lauderdale, 1969
14. Secretariat at the Belmont
15. “Henderson Has Scored for Canada”: Photographing Canadian Nationalism
16. U.S. vs. Them: American Nationalism and Sports Illustrated’s Famous Cover Image of the Miracle on Ice
17. Time Stamping Centre Court: Borg at Wimbledon
18. The Art of Fernando Valenzuela: Baseball and Chicanx Culture in California
19. Michael Jordan at the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest: The NBA and Nike Take Flight in the New Gilded Age
20. Sovereign Celebration: Cathy Freeman, 1994
21. Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup
22. Play Ball: Mo’ne Davis and the Visualization of Athletic Girlhood in Sports Illustrated
23. To Dream Again: The Founding of NIFA and the First World Indigenous Women’s Soccer Champions
24. Kaepernick’s Cliché
25. The Hug: Finding a Community’s Future on the Pitch
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Photo Credits
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