History of Sport

ESPN and the Changing Sports Media Landscape considers the ways the network is reinventing itself as it enters its fifth decade. In their previous ...

ESPN and the Changing Sports Media Landscape considers the ways the network is reinventing itself as it enters its fifth decade. In their previous ...

Wimbledon has long stood at the pinnacle of British and world tennis. But, as Kevin Jefferys shows in this ground-breaking new study, Britain has a...

*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER*'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could write a dull sentence if he tried' Spectator One o...

Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. Since the first road ra...

Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in t...

The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.When Lou Gehrig stepped to the plate on Independence Day 1939, ...

From the earliest FA Cup finals in the 1870s between teams of former public schoolboys to the glittering world of 21st-century Champions League mat...

'ABSORBING' Guardian'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman'EPIC' Evening Standard'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times'MAGISTERIAL' Irish ExaminerFully revised and u...

Mick Hill’s colourful book is packed with his signature artwork, and skilfully showcases the cars, drivers and designers that contributed to the hi...

An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary “classic” races in world cycling. The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glo...

Bradford City Miscellany collects together all the vital information you never knew you needed to know about the Bantams. In these pages you will f...

Between December 28, 1975 and January 11, 1976, a groundbreaking hockey event took place: Super Series '76. Eight National Hockey League clubs each...

Winner of the 2024 Speaker's Book AwardThe true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship. The prid...

The first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer   James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903–1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightnin...

Arthur Gould is the definitive biography of the record-breaking Welsh international player who is widely acknowledged as the first superstar of rug...

History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, seamlessly blends the historical and philosophical dime...

The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable. Long-standing batting and pitching standards were threatened, including the reve...

New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge an...