History of Sport

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...

Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Footballs menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do...

Derby County On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's rollercoaster past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky an...

A remarkable record of fifteen trophies in thirteen seasons at Ibrox, plus two with East Fife, should be enough to give any manager legendary statu...

The Noble Art of Heavyweight Boxing is a knockout trip through the history of this popular sport, from the last thrilling bareknuckle contest in 18...

Late in 1937 Hugh Alexander, a kid fresh out of small-town Oklahoma, had just finished his second year playing outfield for the Cleveland Indians w...

This decade at Le Mans began with the first victories by Porsche, whose awesome 917 racing car, capable of more than 240mph (385kph), established a...

From the thousands of matches ever played by Aston Villa, stretching from the club's Victorian foundation across more than 140 years to the Premier...

Deadly Peaks is a collection of the most notable mountaineering disasters and near-disasters in history. Exhaustively researched by two of the most...

This is the portrait gallery of pugilists. You can discover boxing's greatest era - from the 1850s to the 1890s - when bare-knuckle fighting had it...

The Inside Pitch and More: Baseball''''s Business and the Public Trust, written by former American League President Gene Budig, investigates the hu...

In many parts of the world, football (soccer) represents a way of life. An estimated 150 million players register for professional or amateur leagu...

This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years. It incl...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, David Campese thrilled spectators both in Australia and overseas with his footloose, crazy-brave style of free runnin...

The Rangers Story celebrates the rich history of Rangers FC, one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in the world. This is the story o...

Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and C...

From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication re...

Aston Villa On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's distinguished past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky ane...

Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbol...

An excellent recap, with wonderful access and forensic detail on the Premier League's rise to global alpha status... All told with an arch sense of...

Our view of football will never be the same again Written by a world-respected football historian, this football unique gift title reveals the glob...

From the teams inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. The te...