History of Sport

We all know that the UK goes crazy during Wimbledon fortnight. In fact so much seems to be packed into those two weeks that Spencer Vignes collecte...

In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City...

Although he never played a day in the white major leagues, John Henry Pop Lloyd was one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. A short...

The Little Book of Snooker is a wonderful collection of stories about the most hilarious and often embarrassing scenes that that have taken place i...

This book is a fascinating and entertaining mixture of the history and characters of the darts world. It features player profiles, trivia includin...

Golf is one of the most popular games in the world. That is a strange thing to say, since almost all serious golfers actually have a love-hate rela...

Outsider Baseball is the story of a forgotten world, where independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big...

The post-war era was British speedways golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sports ...

When a man walks on to a pitch theres always a chance something magic can happen, thats what keeps us coming backIn A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harr...

The Weight Lifted collects Chicago Tribune sportswriter Paul Sullivans coverage of the Chicago Cubs historic 2016 championship season. The 16-artic...

The storied mens tennis program at the University of Southern California is documented in this first-ever book chronicling a college tennis program...

The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst GolferWhen 46-year-old crane driver Maurice Fli...

Ian: 'You're going to run how far?', Ryan: '250 kilometres. But it's over seven days, though.' Ian: 'And the furthest you've ever run is ...?', Rya...

In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforci...

This is the first comprehensive study of sport in Taiwan to be published in English. It appears at a time when Taiwan has the attention of the glob...

Among the great pitchers in baseball history, Charles Deacon Phillippe and Samuel The Schoolmaster Leever hardly stand out as household names. But...

This biography of Edd Roush, Indiana-born deadball batting king, centers on the events of the 1919 Black Sox World series but covers his life in...

Beginning with the premise that there is no other rivalry in team sports like that between the Cubs and the White Sox, this work traces the history...

Most Iowa State fans have taken in a game at Jack Trice Stadium or Hilton Coliseum and have seen highlights of Troy Davis and Fred Hoiberg. But onl...

The New York Yankees are one of baseball's most iconic franchises and as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Buil...