History of Sport

Buzzie and the Bull chronicles a baseball year in the lives of two lifelong friends who couldnt be more different: Buzzie Bavasi, the legendary gen...

The untold story of Real Madrid: one of the most incredible turnarounds in sports and business history. Real Madrid is the most successful sports ...

One of only twenty-nine Major Leaguers to play in four different decades, Jerry Reuss pitched for eight teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates twi...

2020 SABR Seymour Medal  2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Buck ONeil once described him as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker ...

Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover''s bike to cycle around Paris in the 1940s, instantly falling in love with the freedom it gave her (even when...

'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - Mail on Sunday...

Named Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest 2021 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbul...

Over eighty years of international turmoil, discriminatory agendas, and vicious acts of violence.this is the haunting Olympic history of Israel and...

Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a m...

You can see us, but you don''t know us.Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, organised, political and violent, they are a hugely...

* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*Discover this 100-year anniversary celebration of the hardest-earned an...

Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book AwardsGraeme Swann leads us on a compelling adventure through one of world spor...

The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tr...

The Beautiful Badge tells the fascinating story behind the UK's football club badges, from 1860s hand-embroidered symbols on home-knitted jerseys t...

In 1932 laundry-store tycoon George Preston Marshall became part owner of the Boston Braves franchise in the National Football League. To separate ...