History of Sport

Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeyco...

This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their perform...

For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking ...

Written by Andrew Hignell, the Archivist of Glamorgan County Cricket Club and the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales, this book r...

Hull City have been in existence 110 years, and while the last ten have seen the club rise from the bottom of League Two to reach the Premier Leagu...

In 2016 the Rams left St. Louis for Los Angeles--having departed L.A. for St. Louis in 1995--and caused much heartbreak among fans. NFL teams ar...

During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectual...

Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turne...

Runnings Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of running, from the earliest marathon to todays...

MASTERFUL Raphael HonigsteinThe story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. The...

BRISTOL ROVERS: THE OFFICIAL HISTORY is an up-to-date and definitive historical record of Bristol Rovers Football Club, relating the story of the c...

How good was Negro League Baseball (1920-1948)? Some experts maintain that the quality of play was equal to that of the American and National Le...

In the twenty-first century, soccer commands the allegiance, interest, and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon in th...

Football is more than just a game. Over the past 150 years it has become a source of identity, conflict and debate for all who follow and play it. ...

War Blacks is the extraordinary story of New Zealand's national sport and The Great War, and the effect each had on the other. Rugby and war have ...

Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and...

Few would dispute the pitching greatness of Sandy Koufax--but was Paul Pettit better? Jim Baxes was once compared to the great Pie Traynor yet f...

The Cleveland Browns set the standard by which all professional football teams were measured in the 1940s and 50s, but when they won the National F...

Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality ...

Throughout the NCAA Tournaments history, underdogs, Cinderella stories, and upsets have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making Marc...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.SUNDAY TIMES SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR. From its late-Victorian flowering in the mill towns o...