Biography: Sport

Born in Austin, Texas, in 1899, Bibb August Falk was the classic stereotype of a Texan, standing six feet. He brimmed with confidence and played...

The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Ch...

Davie Gibson, universally known as Gibbo, was a shy wee lad from Winchburgh, a mining village in West Lothian. A fascinating story unfolds as he ov...

This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman fo...

Among the great lightweights of the 1940s and 1950s, Boxing Hall of Famer Sidney Beau Jack Walker (1921-2000) was virtually orphaned by his pare...

2021 Seymour Medal Finalist  Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors DigestNew York Times 2020 Summer Reading List From the day he ...

Practices are a little like a classroom-you're teaching, says John Gagliardi. Since 1953, John, as head football coach at Saint John's University, ...

This book tells the story of one of Argentinas greatest tennis players, the most important of his generation. After winning the 2009 U.S. Open, def...

An early celebrity pitcher, Denton Cy Young (1867-1955) established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set M...

To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history or you can live its history as an active participant...

Much has been written about the legendary players and managers of baseball's Deadball Era (1901-1919). Far less attention has been given to the ...

Regardless of discipline, level of expertise, training philosophy, body shape, or fitness level, all riders do betterin horse-related activities on...

From his first year in the majors, George Herman Babe Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attemp...

From San Francisco to the Ginza in Tokyo, Lefty ODoul relates the untold story of one of baseballs greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and ...

For many fans in the 1940s and 1950s, it wasn't the exploits of major leagues that made baseball so popular. It was the local minor league heroe...

This is the first full-length biography of Kid Nichols (1869-1953), who won 30 or more games a record seven times and was the youngest pitcher t...

Fred Duke Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century. Born into poverty, he developed into a...

Although Andrew Rube Foster (1879-1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the...

Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday ...

Albert Beauregard Hodges is a legend among chess aficionados. As one of the most well-known American chess players of the late 19th and early 20th ...

Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Ca...