History of sport Books

In Great Golf Tournaments - Volume 1, I share with you the experience of re-living classic golf tournaments that featured some of the top golfers in the game's history. Each chapter is written as a short story covering a tournament that was played...

A ranking of the top 50 players ever to play for the Detroit Lions, based on the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent to which they added to the Lions legacy, and the levels of statistical compilation and overall dominance...

Battles at Annapolis presents the context of the two most recent Army–Navy football games at the US Naval Academy, in 1893 and 1942. One game was played in peacetime before a rowdy, alcohol-fueled crowd. The second game was...

Ce livre explore en profondeur le basketball en fauteuil roulant, mettant en lumière les stratégies et les techniques permettant aux athlètes handicapés de maximiser leur potentiel. Destiné aux joueurs, entraîneurs, parents et éducateurs, il offre une...

An exciting and educational collection of games that have been played for hundreds of years in the South Asian region known as modern-day Bangladesh.Outdoor and indoor games for children of all agesSimple games played with a toddler or babySkits and...

Reader, you are in for a treat. Or possibly a shock.Richard 'Siggy' Young has just written an astonishing cricket book about football. Or perhaps it's a stunning football book about cricket.There was much more to the birth and subsequent explosive rise...

What happens when you can't fit all the outstanding interviews into one book? You make a Volume 2! Excitement in the Air - The Voices of NW Wrestling, Volume 2, brings you additional interviews with the stars that shaped professional wrestling in the NW...

Culled from thirty years of interviews with professional wrestling stars, Excitement In The Air - The Voices of NW Wrestling takes you on the road and in the dressing rooms of promotions like never before. You'll read first-hand how wrestlers got...

The One Opponent Gotch Feared Could Beat HimWrestling fans believed no living man could defeat World Champion Frank Gotch. To stimulate fan interest, Gotch's manager lured Stanislaus Zbyszko, a European Greco-Roman wrestling champion, to America for a...

On July 26, 1854, World Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey challenged part-time prize-fighter and New York Whig enforcer William "Bill the Butcher" Poole to a street fight. The fight at the Amos Street Pier proved humiliating for the champion. The bad...

Sporting mega-events habitually spawn protests from local groups discommoded by the building of new infrastructure, environmental lobbies contesting the long-term legacies of such events, and expressions of outrage at the expenditure of public funds on...

The history of sport in socialist Yugoslavia is a peculiar lens through which to examine the country's social, cultural and political transformations. Sport is represented as one of the most popular and engaging cultural phenomena of social life. Sport...

This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context,...

When Canada hosted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, few Canadian spectators waved flags in the stands. By 2010, in the run-up to the Vancouver Olympics, thousands of Canadians wore red mittens with white maple leaves on the palms. In doing so, they turned...

""Ensayo sobre la esgrima de la bayoneta: para el manejo del fusil como arma blanca"" es un libro escrito por Francisco G�����lvez de Zea en 1855. Este ensayo se centra en la t�����cnica de la esgrima con bayoneta, un arma que se utiliza en el fusil. El...

Das Buch ""Die Gymnastik und die Fechtkunst in der Armee"" wurde 1858 vom Verlag von A. Bath Publisher ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um einen Leitfaden f�����r milit�����rische Gymnastik- und Fecht�����bungen, der speziell f�����r die Armee...

The Natural History of Gamebirds is a comprehensive guide to the biology, behavior, and ecology of gamebirds. Written by William Jardine and originally published in 1834, this book offers a detailed account of the various species of gamebirds found in...

What if the Indians won every game? What if something unique, historic, memorable, or odd happened every day? The Perfect Season Project takes 120 years of Cleveland Baseball history and concentrates it into one Perfect Season. Two unique rules make it...

Mets faced Rays in the first round of the 2002 FCL Baseball Playoffs in Port Charlotte, FL. Full color photography by Marisa L. Williams vividly recalls details from the game. Narration is written in English, Spanish, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean...

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an...

Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape...

In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football...

For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players and the coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an...

The story of the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of its finest organization After a hundred "cursed" years, the Boston Red Sox rose gloriously to baseball domination. Under the leadership of manager Terry Francona, an extraordinary team...

In this long-awaited autobiography, the legendary Bill Elliott details his childhood in rural North Georgia, building cars from scratch, struggling on the anonymous small-time tracks of the South to his against-the-odds rise to the pinnacle of NASCAR...

From the author of Baseball 100"A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a nation and persevered to become a beloved figure...One of the best baseball books in years, filled with depth style and clarity." --Cleveland Plain DealerAn...

The vivid historical rage and modern day bloodlust of one of the most enduring rivalries in all of American sports--the University of Texas Longhorns versus the Oklahoma Sooners. Runnin' with the Big Dogs is the ultimate story of one of America's...

An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina's and Duke's basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the SouthThe basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and...

What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common? They have all reached the top of their respective professions, and they all credit sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental to their success. In his...

Close your eyes and picture the Heisman Trophy. The form is easyto conjure, a graceful, fluid posethat is football past and football present in one dignified figure ...The story of the Heisman Trophyis an american epic.-- from the PrefaceNo sport in...

The saga of New York's push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams.Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s...

"Both a pleasure and a revelation."--Daniel Okrent, author of Nine InningsIn 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals,...

Baseball's Natural is John Theodore's true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and the Phillies in the 1940s and became immortalized in baseball lore as the inspiration for Bernard Malamud's The Natural. Eddie Waitkus grew...

Most baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds light on a usually unnoticed facet of the game, introducing fans and historians alike to the real fundamentals of...

The first book of its kind, The Indefatigables: A Record of Australian Endurance Cycling is a milestone work and an essential reference that gathers Australia's endurance cycling records in one place. Exploring the motivations, successes and...

 Since its inception in 1933, the All-Star Game has become an integral part of baseball. Yet there has been no truly comprehensive source for researchers that includes both a narrative and a play-by-play for each game. Nor have there been more than...

Forgotten today, Sam Thompson (1860-1922) was one of the most dominant five skills players of his era. At the plate, he batted .331, was second among 19th century players in home runs, and ranks first all-time in RBI per game (.923). In his prime, he...

In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges--population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in...

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to enter the world of professional sports. Out of millions of boys who have played baseball, more than 17,000 have...

During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski...

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on...