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Athletics and Sports in Sweden and Swedish America

This guide is for anyone looking to conduct research about sports and athletics in Sweden and Swedish America using Swenson Center resources.

Books

Here are some book and periodical sources to get you started. This is not an exhaustive list!

 

Quad-City sports greats

                Baraks, Brad, 1982.

 

Nordisk familjeboks; sportlexikon. Uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. [Sports Dictionary]

                Stockholm, Nordisk Familjeboks Förlags, 1938-1946.

 

The Punching bag.

[Periodical] Swedish American Athletic Association, 1970s.

 

Jumpin' Jimminy - a World War II baseball saga : American flyboys and Japanese submariners battle it out in a Swedish world series

                Skole, Robert, 2004.

 

De första proffsen : svenska fotbollspelare i New York 1918-1939 (The first professionals: Swedish football players in New York 1918-1939).

Persson, Gunnar, 1996.

 

The encyclopedia of Chicago (see sports culture)

                Grossman, James R., editor, et.al., 2004.

 

Field sports of the north of Europe; a narrative of angling, hunting, and shooting in Sweden and Norway.

                Lloyd, Llewelyn, 1885.

 

We also have a Swedish film about tennis:

Borg vs. McEnroe

Metz, Janus, film director, 2018.