Biography: Sport

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...

Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate every moment. If only Bill could have gotten along with people the way he got...

One of early baseball's most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. A brainy hitter and base-runner, h...

Frank Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century. He was Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds in 1956, won the Tri...

Donald Campbell was born into the world of record-breaking, as the only son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous in the inter-war years as...

Described as the Greatest Batsman in the Country by sportswriters of his era, Dennis Big Dan Brouthers compiled a .342 batting average, tying wi...