History of Sport

The hit 1992 film A League of Their Own made the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League famous. But the players' stories remain largel...

This book, with contributions from many of the world's leading polo journalists, profiles more than 30 of the most influential polo players from...

Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball's greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with ...

Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting (close quarters combat), and running (...

The Detroit Tigers gave a memorable performance in the pennant race against the New York Yankees in 1961, the American League's first expansion ...

For Charlton Athletic Football Club supporters, their club will always be a part of their lives. A Charlton supporter since the mid-1960s, David Ra...

Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless championship fights, historic main ev...

The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detailed coverage to five legend...

The 1947 World Series was “the most exciting ever” in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade’s worth of drama packed into seven games between the...

In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets,...

The Page Fence Giants, an all-star black baseball club sponsored by a woven-wire fence company in Adrian, Michigan, graced the diamond in the 18...

At the turn of the century, Track and Field was the bastion of the rich and privileged. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted the top sportsm...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardIn 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tri...

The 1908 American League pennant race was described as a "a fierce and fluctuating fight." With five games left in the season, each of the leagu...

The National Pastime's rich history and vast cache of statistics have provided fans and researchers a gold mine of narrative and data since the lat...

In the 1800s, New Orleans' local economy evolved from rural-agrarian into urban-industrial. With this transformation came newfound leisure time,...

Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the ga...

This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of Lon...

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at th...