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John Bloom is a professor of history at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. His past books are A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture; To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools; Sports Matters: Race, Recreation and Culture; Barry Bonds: A Life; and There You Have It: The Life, Legacy and Legend of Howard Cosell.