In writing my history of synchronized swimming, I was loyal to the canon of historical methodology and theory, I was true to my grounding in classical source use, I was faithful to observing continuity and change, I was conscious of the complex problems concerning truth, relativism, and representation that are entangled in the practices of being a historian. And out of my allegiance to these things, I remembered synchronized swimming, producing what I believe is my finest work in the twentieth century discipline-genre known as "sport history"