History of Sport

The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The c...

A fascinating tour of Oakland sports history and a look toward the future of professional sports in the East Bay. Oakland is a sports city like no ...

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

The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the...

I was never as proud to be part of a team as I was being part of that team. PAT JENNINGS By the end of the 1970s, the Northern Ireland football te...

Unequal opportunity sparked Jim Browns endeavors to encourage Black development while Billie Jean King fought so that women tennis players could ea...

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...

In The Franchise: Minnesota Twins, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team. This thoughtful and engaging collect...

The inside story of the Detroit Tigers' unforgettable 1984 season In 1984, fantasy became reality in the Motor City. Led by ace Jack Morris, a hist...

The Sons of Revie is the definitive account of ten incredible seasons at Leeds United, told through the eyes of a young supporter who grew up on th...

Harry Edward was a hugely talented athlete and an extraordinary man who fought all his life for justice and fairness in the face of repeated prejud...

Anything Is Possible is the inside story of Bournemouth's remarkable Championship winning season and tells how the smallest club in the division de...

The Man with the Plan: Howard Wilkinson's Leeds United is the extraordinary tale of how Wilkinson revived a football club that had fallen on hard t...

The Batmaker of Copenhagen is the inspiring story of a cricketing hero who defied the German occupation to keep cricket alive throughout the Nazi o...

Spend a year at the ballpark with the facts, stats, personalities, and most memorable moments from America's pastime. Name Game-Who are the two mos...

For more than twenty-five years, Brian Campf collected vintage photographs and ephemera related to Oregon sports. Sporting Oregon includes approxim...

Shortlisted for the North American Society for Sports History 2020 Monograph Prize Its hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s, athletes could ge...

For some of us, Big Ten basketball will always mean the original ten great teams that comprised the league. But for all fans, the teams during this...

Sports and competition have been film subjects since the dawn of the medium. Olympic sports documentaries have been around nearly as long as the ...

In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines herocrafting in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of...

Fifty Great World Cup Matches and Why You Should Watch Them ! is a highly entertaining guide to the most memorable matches of the last 13 tourname...

In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental playground revolution still remain. In Centr...