Oral History on Sport-Sample Questions

•  What is your full name?

• When and where were you born?

• Where did you attend grade school? High school? College?

• What is your present occupation?

• What is your earliest childhood memory of sports and games?

• What kind of sports did you play growing up?

• What are some of your favorite sports/games? And why?.

Focus on one of your most favorite sport, what was it.

• Who were your childhood sports heroes?

• Where did you play, in school, neighborhood? explain.

• Tell us some stories or experience of your involvement in sports?

• Did you go for regular practice, who and how was your coach?

• What are some memories of your team members?

• What were your best and worst sports experience?

• What were your special and memorable sporting moment?

• What were your favorite songs and music?

• Did you have any pets? If so, what kind and what were their names?

• What was your religion growing up? What church, if any, did you attend?

• Were you ever mentioned in a newspaper?

• Who were your friends when you were growing up?

• What world events had the most impact on you while you were growing up? Did any of them personally affect your family?

• Describe a typical family dinner.