History of Sport

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...

More than 300 ballplayers have spent time with both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, opposing teams in one of the most intense rival...

A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book ...

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

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

Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandso...

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 ...