North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Outstanding Book Award

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2007     Foucault, sport and exercise : power knowledge and transforming the self by Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle
2006     Sporting pedagogies : performing culture & identity in the global arena by Michael D. Giardina
2005     Protecting home : class, race, and masculinity in boys' baseball by Sherri Grasmuck
2004     Taking the field : women, men and sports by Michael Messner
2003     Saying it's so : a cultural history of the Black Sox scandal by Daniel A. Nathan
2002     Men at play : a working understanding of professional hockey by Michael Robidoux
2001     Higher goals : women's ice hockey and the politics of gender by Nancy Theberge
2000     The rites of men : manhood, politics, and the culture of sport by Varda Burstyn
1999     Sport matters : sociological studies of sport, violence, and civilization by Eric Dunning
1998     Boxing and society : an international analysis by John Sugden
1997     Baseball on the border : a tale of two Laredos by Alan Klein
1996     No award
1995     Outsiders in the clubhouse : the world of women's professional golf by Todd Crosset
1994     Sporting females : critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports by Jennifer Hargreaves
1993     Power at play : sport and the problems of masculinity by Michael Messner