Biography: Sport

2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Honorable Mention for Adventure, Sports & Rec 2020 Nebraska Book Award Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to f...

In June 1978, 11 years after he quit Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Mike Hailwood returned to the Isle of Man TT races, probably the most prestigiou...

Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE (born 29 November 1973) is a former Welsh football player who played most notably for Manchester United and the Welsh nationa...

Rubin Hurricane Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxi...

This definitive work on the Englishman Amos Burn assembles and analyzes all extant games and provides a thorough biography of the famous chess m...

The subject of this biography is best known today from the Vanity Fair print of 1893 by 'Spy' (Leslie Ward), in which the twenty-three year old Wil...

Welsh football legend Trevor Ford was not your typical football player from the forties and fifties. In a era where football club owners held all t...

Shortlisted - Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015. Grand Prize Winner - Banff Mountain Book Festival 2014. 'The wall was the ambition, the style ...

Schooled on the sandlots of Milwaukee, Chicago Black Sox center fielder Oscar Happy Felsch (1891-1964) was a rising star who then blew a promisi...

In December 1989, United fanatic Pete Molyneux raised a banner calling for Alex Fergusons head, sparking the most famous protest in Old Traffords 1...

This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960...

Frank Whitcombe, described as 'one of the greatest Welsh rugby league forwards of all time', played for Bradford Northern, Wales, and Great Britain...

'If You Were Only White' explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever - an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and cro...

At six feet, four inches and more than 220 pounds, Roger Clemens (1962- ) was a major figure in baseball for nearly a quarter century. The best pit...

Baseball pioneer J. L. Wilkinson (1878-1964) was the owner and founder, in 1920, of the famed Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues. The onl...

Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over .300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing, tough-talking hustler, he had a...