Introduction Special Section
Transnational Athletes – Historical Perspectives
Tom Fabian & Jörg Krieger
Pages: 1457-1461 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2452055
Articles
Transactionality, Opportunism and the Third Generation’s Emotional Patriotism. Deservingness and Transnational Football Players in the Polish National Team
Przemysław Nosal, Radosław Kossakowski & Wojciech Woźniak
Pages: 1462-1482 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2023.2291446
Ernest Wilimowski – Polish and German National Team Player with an Unspecified Nationality
Tomasz Bohdan & Agnieszka Połaniecka
Pages: 1483-1502 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2375301
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites
Brîndușa-Maria Cerga
Pages: 1503-1520 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2316036
Commodifying Race: The Portrayal of Bernardo Mikixi, an Angolan Mixed Martial Artist, in the Extreme Fighting Championship’s Advertising Materials in South Africa, 2009–2015 | 
Kevin Roșianu
Pages: 1521-1541 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2412075
Traditional and Modern Sports in the Forging of Respectability in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Aitor Alaña
Pages: 1542-1569 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2441213
‘Unsportsmanlike Behaviour’: Okigwe Football League and Inter-Community Rivalries in Southeastern Nigeria, 1949–1951
Patrick Chukwudike Okpalaeke & James Akpan Ekah
Pages: 1570-1590 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2455582
Professional Basketball, the ‘Hardship Case’ and the ‘Culture of Poverty’: The Social Construction of Black Basketball Players from Spencer Haywood to Moses Malone, 1969–1974
Seth Rogoff
Pages: 1591-1608 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2451857
The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–1956 |
Václav Pechman
Pages: 1609-1626 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2025.2451855
Book Reviews
The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50 th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction and Afterword
By Harry Edwards, Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2017, xxiv + 232 pp., USD$29.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-252-04107-5
Andy Fuller
Pages: 1627-1628 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2433869
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics
Edited by Julien Sorez, translated by Michelle Onofrey, Grenoble: Glénant, 2024, 191 pp, 39.95 €(hardback), ISBN 978-2344060254
Heather L. Dichter
Pages: 1629-1630 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2433872
Beautiful Bridesmaides Dressed in Oranje. The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football
Gary Thacker, Sussex: Pitch Publishing, 2021, 416 pp., ca. $25.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-78-531846-7; Gary Thacker, Dutch Masters. When Ajax’s Totaalvoetbal Conquered Europe . Sussex: Pitch Publishing, 2023, 400 pp. ca. $30.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-80-1504416
Martijn Lak
Pages: 1630-1633 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2433874
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
By William W. Kelly, Oakland, CA, University of California Press, 2019, vii + 315 pp., US$ 34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-5202-9942-9
Matthew D. Moore
Pages: 1633-1635 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2433875
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts
By Nick Richardson, Melbourne, Melbourne Cricket Club, 2021, 288 pp., AUD$40.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780645097603
Bernard Whimpress
Pages: 1635-1637 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2024.2433877
