Biography: Sport

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...

Gordon Smith: Prince of Wingers is a biographical story recounting the life of legendary footballer Gordon Smith written by his son Tony. One of th...

Henry Cooper is best remembered for the night he nearly changed boxing history - 19 July 1963. Fighting an up-and-coming boxer by the name of Cassi...

Lure of the Mountains is the first published biography of accomplished photographer, ornithologist, teacher and 1924 Everest expedition member Bent...

Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis Pud Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 18-yea...

Walter Smith is arguably the greatest Rangers manager of all time, delivering an unparalleled level of success in two spells which covered just ove...

In descriptions of athletes, the word hero is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. ...