CFP: NASSH

The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) will hold its annual convention next May at the University of Texas in Austin. Abstracts for submitted papers or sessions are due December 1. For more information, you can contact Program Chair Catriona Parratt at catriona-parratt@uiowa.edu; there's also more information about the submission process here.

Also, a shout out to JSM editorial board member Michael Butterworth at Bowling Green (OH). Michael has just published a book, Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity during the War on Terror, published by the University of Alabama Press and now available on Amazon. Sounds like a good Christmas stocking stuffer ...