History of Sport

The story behind Shohei Ohtanis legendary MVP season as baseballs greatest two-way playerdominant pitcher and DH with otherworldly power at the pla...

Overtime Kids is an inspiring account of the smallest school to ever win the Kentucky State High School Basketball Championship, knocking out the h...

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the col...

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the col...

In Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture, Sean ONeil studies the intersectionality of religion and disability...

Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, helps students grasp the compelling evolution o...

This is the first work to go beyond the popular myths of stock car racing to fully examine the sport's true history. NASCAR Nation: A History of St...

The magnificent story of a writers lifelong obsession with his city and its football club. When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange cit...

Hoosier Beginnings tells the story of Indiana University athletics from its founding in 1867 to the interwar period. Crammed full of rare images an...

Winner of the Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award from the Illinois State Historical Society Baseballs spread across Illinois paralleled the ...

'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis' Elis JamesRULE #1: DON'T WATC...

How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return. From Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez to Albert Pujols and Juan...

Anyone who has watched the film Field of Dreams can't help but be captivated by the lead character's vision. He gives his struggling farming commun...

When Thomas Hauser was selected for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019, his relationship with Muhammad Ali was widely cit...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad fem...

How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women's gymnastics Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comneci helped make womens artis...

Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S. Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long bef...

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, baseball's minor leagues cancelled their seasons. A few independent leagues tried abbreviated schedules, but a...

In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he wo...

2022 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year When New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham came ho...

During the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, Wes...