History of Sport

A very good read. It is not only about a baseball player in the AAGPBL, but also about a young Latino woman who makes good in America.Lance Smith, ...

The history of Cairos football fans is one of the most poignant narratives of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and the Ult...

Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gib...

The college baseball season doesnt end when the school year is finished. Many of the top NCAA Division I, II, and III baseball players continue to ...

A Los Angeles Times Best Seller A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack end...

The USC Trojans football program has been one of the winningest and most recognizable college football teams to ever play the sport. There have bee...

Established in 1883, the Olympic Club catered to a variety of pursuits from target shooting to billiards to boxing--the most popular sport in Ne...

Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gib...

The 1970s had been a generous decade to the Norfolk club. It had witnessed promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in th...

Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home gamefrom the crowds and tailgates to t...

The All-America Football Conference and the National Football League battled for supremacy from 1946 through 1949. In the end, the players from ...

New edition of this successful, detailed and colourful history of Tottenham Hotspur that gets to the heart and soul of the famous north London foot...

With the most victories and highest winning percentage in college football history, the University of Michigan Wolverines have a long and storied h...

Leeds United AFC was formed in 1919 following the disbanding of Leeds City FC by the Football League. The team took over the Elland Road stadium an...

'This may conceivably be Barness best work yet' Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times but thats enough ab...

From when the Phillies franchise was established in 1883 and a rookie manager led the team to its first National League pennant in 1915 to the Worl...

The Negro Southern League was a baseball minor league that operated off and on from 1920 to 1951. It served as a valuable feeder system to the N...

The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from ...

This account of professional golf during the Great Depression begins with a look at the roaring 1920s and how the game developed during this exc...

As one of the oldest cycling clubs in the world, the Anfield has an amazing history. The early members in the 1880s and 1890s helped shape competit...

Athletic contests in running, walking, jumping and throwing are among the oldest of all sports and their roots are prehistoric. Athletics events we...

Charlton Athletic Football Club was formed in 1905, turned professional in 1921, and have played at their ground, The Valley, since 1920. Charlton ...

Before they acquired Babe Ruth or won a single championship, the New York Yankees (ne Highlanders) inspired the strongest of feelings in basebal...

This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base B...

Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvatio...

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH takes the sayings of the great and the good not to mention the lovers and the loathers of the beautiful game as starti...

1952 was one of the most important years in Mercedes-Benz racing history; after a 13-year absence, the marque returned to motor sport competition w...

Today soccer is the global game played by millions of people around the world. This was not always the case. Ireland was one of the first countries...

The Tobacco State League played an important role in eastern North Carolina for five summers (1946-1950), giving small-town communities a chance...

Twenty-four exclusive interviews with boxing insiders feature the recollections and perspectives of champions, trainers, promoters and officials...

From the time conference play began in 1905, the Big Ten was the Western force in collegiate basketball. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Purdue were th...

On January 20, 1968, the University of Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins, ending a 47-game winning streak. Billed as the Game of the Century, t...

Beginning in 1845, the New York Knickerbockers were the first fully organized base ball club to play the game with written rules similar to thos...

This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from...

Baseball has had many outstanding Latin American pitchers since the early 20th century. This book profiles the greatest Hispanic hurlers to toe ...

Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate every moment. If only Bill could have gotten along with people the way he got...