The wide world of sports has been well-chronicled in American history and culture through many lenses—from fiction, drama, and poetry to journalistic and biographical narratives, to the electronic mass media. Five years ago, I offered a course on baseball and literature that explored this uniquely American pastime and the nearly mythological spell that it casts on so many of its devotees, myself included. My recent presentation on Negro League and Latin American Baseball featured neglected minority perspectives. It proved much more satisfying to hear from voices across the spectrum--including works by masters: novelist Bernard Malamud and playwright August Wilson, distinguished journalists Roger Angell and Wendell Smith, and historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Negro League curator Bob Kendrick. Embracing this model, I believe the time is now ripe to examine other cherished American sports, moving from baseball through the mainstream of football, basketball, boxing, tennis, and the Olympics to colorful venues such as the horse racing track. We will hear familiar “voices” such as those of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, novelist David Foster Wallace, and broadcaster Howard Cosell. These will be counterbalanced by multi-cultural perspectives from the likes of novelist John Edgar Wideman, basketball immortal turned historian Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and poet Martin Espada. The suggested reading selections should prove eclectic, inclusive, and probing--enriched by video clips that bring memories back to life. Sports are a mirror to society and I trust that these American Sports Chronicles should reflect and shed light. Winding down a 35 yr. career at USF, Alan Goldberg has concentrated on the multi-cultural variants of Rhetoric in American Literature. He was educated at the U. of Chicago, the U. of Hawaii, and SFSU. He was mentored by Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow at Chicago and Irving Halperin (late of the Fromm) at SFSU. A scholar in Jewish American literature with special emphasis on the works of Bellow, Malamud, Roth, and Doctorow, he is presently exploring the current generation of prominent Jewish American writers. He is championing the legacy of the late Philip Roth in response to recent revisionist critiques. As a lifelong devotee of baseball, he is also researching sports in American literature. He and his Nicaraguan-American wife, Indiana Quadra- Goldberg, a retired CCSF Ethnic Studies professor with an emphasis on Latina/o literature, share a deep appreciation of African American and Hispanic American literature.