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Project Publications and Further References

Academic Journal Articles

Stride, C.B., Wilson, J.P. and Thomas, F.E. 'From pitch to plinth: documenting the UK’s football statuary'. Sculpture Journal (In Press).
Stride, C.B., Wilson, J.P. and Thomas, F.E. 'Honouring heroes by branding in bronze: theorising the UK’s football statuary'. Sport In Society (2013). Download
Stride, C.B., Thomas, F.E., Wilson, J.P. and Pahigian, J. 'Modeling Stadium Statue Subject Choice in US Baseball and English Soccer'. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (2012). Download

Magazine Articles

Stride, C. B. & Thomas, F. E. & Wilson, J.P. (forthcoming) From Pitch To Plinth: A Tribute In Bronze. The Players' Club (official PFA magazine).
Stride, C. B. & Thomas, F. E. (2011) . When Saturday Comes magazine, 294, 36-37.

Further References

Statue-Specific Articles:

Huggins, M. Death, memorialisation and the Victorian sporting hero. The Local Historian 38 (2008): 257-65.
McMillen, J.D. and McMillen, R.S. 'The Legal Aspects of Sports Sculpture'. Willamette Sports Law Journal 1 (2005): 1-23.
Osmond, G., Phillips, M.G. and O'Neill, M.E. ''Putting up your Dukes': Statues Social Memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku'. The International Journal of the History of Sport 23 (2006): 82-103.
Phillips, M.G., O'Neill, M.E. and Osmond, G. 'Broadening Horizons in Sports History: Films, Photographs and Monuments'. Journal of Sports History 34 (2007): 271-91.
Schultz, J. 'Contesting the Master Narrative: The Arthur Ashe Statue and Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia'. The International Journal of the History of Sport 28 (2011): 8-9.
Smith, M.M. Willie Mays Plaza, McCovey Point, and the Dominican Dandy in Bronze: (De)Constructing History at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Journal of the West 47, 4 (2008): 60-69.
Smith, M.M. 'Frozen Fists in Speed City: The Statue as Twenty-First-Century Reparations'. Journal of Sport History 36, 3 (2009): 393-414.
Smith, M.M. 'Mapping America’s Sporting Landscape: A Case Study of Three Statues'. The International Journal of the History of Sport 28 (2011): 1252-68.

Fairley, S. 'In Search of Relived Social Experience: Group-based Nostalgia Sport Tourism'. Journal of Sport Management 17 (2003): 284-304.
Goldblatt, D. 'Football Arte'. Soccer & Society 12 (2011): 21-22.
Huggins, M. and O'Mahoney, M. The Visual in Sport. London: Routledge (2011).
Johnes, M. and Mason, R. 'Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum'. Sport in History 23 (2003): 115-31.
Mandell, R.A. Sport: A Cultural History. New York: Columbia University Press (1984).
Penn, R. 'Cathedrals of Sport: Football Stadia in Contemporary England'. In Soccer Review, edited by P. Murphy and I. Waddington. Leicester: Anchorprint Group Ltd (2005).
Ramshaw, G. and Gammon, S. 'More than just Nostalgia? Exploring the Heritage/sport Tourism Nexus'. The Journal of Sport Tourism 10 (2005): 229-41.
Russell, D. ''We all Agree, Name the Stand after Shankly': Cultures of Commemoration in Late Twentieth-century English Football Culture'. Sport in History 26 (2006): 1-25.
Seifried, C. and Meyer, K. 'Nostalgia-related Aspects of Professional Sports Facilities: A Facility Audit of Major League Baseball and National Football League Strategies to Evoke the Past'. International Journal of Sport Management Recreation and Tourism 5 (2010): 51-76.
Vamplew, W. 'Facts and Artefacts: Sports Historians and Sports Museums'. Journal of Sport History 25 (1998): 268-82.
Wood, J. 'Talking Sport or Talking Balls: Realizing the Value of Sports Heritage'. Industrial Archaeology Review 27 (2005).