Book Review: Inventing for Sports

Authors

  • Larry Jinkins Indiana University Kokomo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18060/29169

Keywords:

sports innovation, Smithsonian

Abstract

In Inventing for Sports, editors Eric S. Hintz and Arthur A. Daemmrich curate a timely and engaging volume that explores how invention and innovation have shaped, and continue to reshape, modern sport. Rooted in years of public programming and research at the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the book serves as both a standalone scholarly resource and a complement to the museum’s 2024 exhibition Change Your Game / Cambia tu juego.

Author Biography

Larry Jinkins, Indiana University Kokomo

Larry Jinkins, PhD, is an assistant professor of sport and recreation management at Indiana University Kokomo. 

References

Hintz, E. S., & Daemmrich, A. A. (Eds.). (2025). Inventing for Sports. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. ISBN 978-1-944466-77-0 (print), 978-1-944466-76-3 (online, open access). https://smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/book/_/28386035?file=52269080

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Published

2025-07-02

Issue

Vol. 6 (2025)

Section

Book Reviews

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