History of Sport

Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game.It is written by tw...

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...

A comprehensive history of the Cleveland Indians over eight decades, the franchise joined the American League in 1904, as one of four charter membe...

The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime wa...

In the world of sports, Iowa is probably best known for wrestling but the state has also produced more than 200 major league baseball players. S...

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...

Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern actio...

Bike racers were America’s media darlings less than a century ago—dashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s bike races drew lar...

The late Philadelphia Daily News sportswriter Stan Hochman was known for his many zingers, such as “Harry Litwack, the stoic Temple coach, stalks t...

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 doesn’t end when the school year is finished. Many of the top NCAA Division I, II, and III baseball players continue to...