History of Sport

From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction One of Pearl Jam''s Jeff Ament''s To...

To most modern day tennis fans, it was impossible to believe that until the late 1960s pro tennis playersthat is those who played openly for prize ...

The sequel to David McVay''s highly-acclaimed Steak Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody, will be delivered with all the alacrity of the author''...

What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar sto...

Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer takes an unprecedented look inside the lives of professional football players ar...

The Tour de France Grand Depart of 2014 shone a light on Yorkshire as a world class cycling destination. But the triumph that was Le Tour was in ma...

Occasionally a spark of inspiration can become the catalyst for transition. Just such an occasion took place with the construction of Thompson Spee...

The American sports stadium, for all its raucous glory, is an overlooked centerpiecea veritable templeof our national culture. A hallowed ground fo...

The great tradition of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania told through 50 memorable games When sports fans think of collegiate sports in wes...

In this addictive (Publishers Weekly) romp, intrepid sportswriter Rafi Kohan finagles access to our most beloved fields to find out just what makes...

This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the indu...

Highland Games expert Webster charts the history of the events which have been a defining feature of Scotland's identity for centuries. Uncovering ...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of America's greatest game. From its inauspicious beginnings as 'The First World Championship Game between the AFL...

This narrative of U.S. soccer's history and present-day status addresses the issues of socioeconomics. Emphasizing the differences between socia...

This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical resea...

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to ente...

After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season af...

Sport is all about winning, isn't it? Well, yes and no. For every winner, there's always a loser - often a whole string of them. And while the achi...

FDR Skatepark began its life in 1996 with a few small obstacles built by the City of Philadelphia in an attempt to meet the needs of a growing comm...

The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second qua...

The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies recounts the story of a sport that dates back two thousand years, focusing on milestone fli...

From its colorful beginnings more than a century ago, baseball's annual Most Valuable Player Award has become the most prestigious (and contenti...

In 1939, baseball's past ran headlong into its future. As the game celebrated its 100th anniversary with the opening of the Hall of Fame in Coop...

For nearly two decades Alan Trammell displayed an all-around game as a fielder, hitter, and base runner that was rare for shortstops of his era....

Who won the first Daytona 500? Fans still debate whether it was midwestern champion Johnny Beauchamp, declared the victor at the finish line, or lo...

This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is pro...

This book is the day by day story of the 1954 Indians, whose .721 winning percentage is still the highest in American League history. It tells h...

Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome ...

Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America early last year when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during...

In 1974 Zaire''s football team were summoned into a room in their West German hotel and told that if they lost to Brazil by more than three goals t...

At their basic level, sporting events are about numbers: wins and losses, percentages and points, shots and saves, clocks and countdowns. Howeve...

Bike racers were Americas media darlings less than a century agodashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s bike races drew large...