History of Sport

For Charlton Athletic Football Club supporters, their club will always be a part of their lives. A Charlton supporter since the mid-1960s, David Ra...

Covering the whole squad, including key unsung members of the backroom team, and the inspiring figure of Sir Alf Ramsey, The Team of ''66 explores ...

The Burnley FC Miscellany is packed full of fascinating facts, figures, trivia, stats, stories and anecdotes all relating to the long and colourful...

It was madness: Grand Prix drivers racing flat out from opposite ends of two long runways, only to turn away from each other at the last moment at ...

North of Kirkcaldy, lucky are those - from Levenmouth through the East Neuk to the Tay - who can count East Fife as their Club. It is, by some stan...

Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless championship fights, historic main ev...

2021 Seymour Medal Finalist  Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors DigestNew York Times 2020 Summer Reading List From the day he ...

The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detailed coverage to five legend...

In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets,...

Baseball has been Japan''s most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically...

The Page Fence Giants, an all-star black baseball club sponsored by a woven-wire fence company in Adrian, Michigan, graced the diamond in the 18...

At the turn of the century, Track and Field was the bastion of the rich and privileged. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted the top sportsm...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardIn 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tri...

The 1908 American League pennant race was described as a a fierce and fluctuating fight. With five games left in the season, each of the league'...