History of Sport

Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gib...

The 1970s had been a generous decade to the Norfolk club. It had witnessed promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in th...

Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home gamefrom the crowds and tailgates to t...

The All-America Football Conference and the National Football League battled for supremacy from 1946 through 1949. In the end, the players from ...

New edition of this successful, detailed and colourful history of Tottenham Hotspur that gets to the heart and soul of the famous north London foot...

With the most victories and highest winning percentage in college football history, the University of Michigan Wolverines have a long and storied h...

Leeds United AFC was formed in 1919 following the disbanding of Leeds City FC by the Football League. The team took over the Elland Road stadium an...

'This may conceivably be Barness best work yet' Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times but thats enough ab...

From when the Phillies franchise was established in 1883 and a rookie manager led the team to its first National League pennant in 1915 to the Worl...

The Negro Southern League was a baseball minor league that operated off and on from 1920 to 1951. It served as a valuable feeder system to the N...

The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from ...

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...