History of sport Books

ZAMBIA SPORTING SCORES is a historic account of Zambia's golden era, when the country produced some of the greatest athletes in Africa. It goes back to the pre-independence days when the country was the British colony called Northern Rhodesia. Among the...

Hobart Pasha: Blockade-Running, Slaver-Hunting, And War And Sport In Turkey is a memoir written by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, detailing the life and adventures of Hobart Pasha, a British naval officer who served in the Ottoman Empire during the...

For The Game's Sake is a novel written by Lawrence Perry and published in 1920. The story revolves around a young man named John Harcourt, who is a talented athlete and a star player on his college football team. However, John's passion for the game is...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

Contents Include: Practical Falconry: Preliminaries - The Peregrine Falcon (Hack) - Castings - Hooding - Flown to the Lure - "Waiting On" - Use and Abuse of Pigeons - Partridge and Grouse Hawking, with Some Comments on "Carrying," Markers, Wood Pigeons,...

This antiquarian book contains a detailed treatise on fishing for salmon using a light-line fly fishing method. Complete a variety of useful diagrams and illustrations, and full of interesting and invaluable information, this text is a veritable...

Le Cheval Comme Il Faut est un livre �����crit par Paul Basserie en 1891. Ce livre est une ressource pr�����cieuse pour tous ceux qui s'int�����ressent aux chevaux et ������ leur �����ducation. Il fournit des conseils pratiques sur la mani�����re de...

Sport officials are tasked with maintaining order and adjudicating sport contests. Given their multifaceted role in enforcing rules, standardizing competitions, and keeping sport safe for all participants, they are a requisite part of the sport workforce...

Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After reading Les Woodland's "The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories" the reader might wonder if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier. There is...

Lou Gorman is best known for having assembled the great but star-crossed Red Sox team of 1986. Few, perhaps, know that he also laid the foundation for the Mets club that clawed past them. Or that he is the only baseball executive involved in the...

In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream included not only the best players money could buy but a brand new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The early sixties found Busch working on...

Though many of his contemporaries considered him second only to Babe Ruth in the 1920s and 1930s, Mickey Cochrane is often overlooked by fans and historians. The hard-hitting catcher played on three World Series winners. Fiercely competitive on the...

A guide for beginning baseball enthusiasts, a how to for coaches and the basic fundamentals of each position the way it was taught in the beginning.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Sport - Sportgeschichte, Note: gut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Sportwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Carl Diem, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Carl Diem (1882-1962) war nicht nur eine...

As soon as someone picked up a weapon and tried to use it, someone else told them how they were doing it wrong. In BAD HEMA , Richard Marsden explores the criticisms and witticisms of historical fencing masters. With good humor, the masters' many...

The Winter Meetings have been Organized Baseball's annual offseason ritual since the early days of the game. This is SABR's second volume on their history, covering 1958 - 2016, plus a special section on the Negro Leagues winter meetings. The latter...

The One Is Jack Hurley is an epic three-volume bio-history of boxing’s Golden Age beginning with Jack Dempsey in the 1910s and ending with the emergence of George Foreman in 1970, as filtered through the life experience of legendary manager and...

How did the 1959 season impact the future of College Football? A Memorable Season in College Football: A Look Back at 1959 is a comprehensive study of this unique season. Beginning with an overview of the college game as it was played during that era,...

During the 1960's and early 1970's, University of Tennessee basketball reached a level of excellence that placed the program among the nation's round ball elite. The Vols had an inspirational coach in Ray Mears who created a new excitement in basketball...

Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of The American Football League takes a definitive look into the formation and turbulent early history of the Oakland Raiders. Beginning with the hurried scramble to bring professional football to a city that...

Through this insightful analysis, Boyle explores the role of sports as a defining feature of American culture. From baseball to basketball, he examines the social and political implications of athletic competition and argues that sports serve as a...

Considered one of the definitive works on early baseball, Harry Clay Palmer's book offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the sport at a time when it was still taking shape. With profiles of the game's top players and detailed descriptions of the...

This entertaining book provides an account of the history of pedestrianism, the sport of competitive walking, including detailed descriptions of the performances of some of the most celebrated walkers of the last and present centuries, and the science of...

More than 1,000 years ago, the people of Iga, the mountainous region of Japan, were forced to rise up against their merciless Samurai oppressors. Out of this struggle, nine traditions of the ninja arts grew. The ninjas' strength enabled the mind to...

Not so long ago every town in the United States that had an ounce of pride had a baseball team. The cities had their big leagues, and the bigger towns had their minor league clubs. The whistle stops and crossroad market towns had their teams too, and...

Psychological preparation is now recognised as being of key importance in improving sports performance. This book describes performance profiling methods used by coaches and psychologists and exercises and assessments are presented in an accessiblestyle...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Albert Einstein once said Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein never met Bill James.For years baseball fans have been praising the so-called "Guru of Statistics." Now, you can join the Woodward and Bernstein of the baseball world...

The View from the Stands is both the story of one fan's love of the game and an examination of the effect baseball has had on fans everywhere throughout its history. A collection of stories and insights compiled during the summer of 2002 in each of MLB's...

Just Win Baby contains 101 devotionals to help young athletes and young adults navigate life with Jesus Christ as their head coach.Joe Bill Campbell, a successful trial attorney, former college athlete, and a Christian gives each devotional a title...

Physical education teacher G. U. A. Vieth became the first German author to describe ice skating in writing when a lecture he gave in 1788 was published in a journal in 1789. It was reprinted as a small book in 1790. This book has eluded skating...

The 14 papers in this volume are taken from a conference held in Edinburgh in 2004. When the organisers called for papers for a conference on Games and Festivals they had no idea the response would be so varied—ranging from Minoan bull leaping to...

In the late 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area sportswriters labeled the growing group of born-again Christians on the San Francisco Giants the "God Squad." When the God Squadders helped propel the team to a strong 1978 season, challenging the Dodgers and...

A history of major league baseball from 1965, when 40 years of dominancebythe New York Yankees ended, to 1976, when the free agent era started.Financial, legal, sociological, and competitive trends are discussed.

This antique book contains a detailed treatise on the use of mathematics and statistics as a technique for strategy in chess and card games. A fascinating text full of interesting tips and thorough analyses of the theory behind the practical application...

Presented within this volume is a detailed history of the origin and development of basketball, with chapters on its rules, evolution, foreign variations, and much more.Basket Ball - Its Origin and Development will appeal to all lovers of the sport, and...

These charming tales of Florida in the early nineteenth century were brought to the attention of the University of Florida Press by the late Archie Carr, Florida's preeminent naturalist, who believed they evoked a place, a time, and a way of life that...