History of Sport

Long before the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants brought the major leagues to California in 1958, professional baseball thrived on the West ...

Immortalized in the film A League of Their Own, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League debuted in 1943 as a way to fill ballpark se...

After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finally poised to claim their first Nationa...

Helms Hall of Fame's brothers William M. and Andrew B. June Rankin lived exciting lives covering sports for papers like the New York Sunday Merc...

This work covers the individuals and events of what most consider to be the greatest era in boxing history. The first chapter compares the 1970s...

This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavour of the period by providing yearly overviews from the st...

When Babe Ruth left the New York Yankees in 1935, some feared that the loss would cripple the club for years. However, the post-Ruth era Yankees co...

This work focuses on the Norfolk team (nicknamed the Mary Janes), which played in the Virginia, Eastern and Atlantic leagues. Much attention is ...

Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb cast a shadow over the game with his violent behavior on the field and off....

When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans a...

The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team - team being the operative word. There were no superstars - although Roberto Clemente would become ...

Stories from on and off the pitch by two legendary Welsh Rugby World Cup referees. -- Welsh Books Council

Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday ...

It was a novel experiment as baseball's leading men formed the National Association, bringing order to the hodgepodge of professional and amateu...

At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were co...

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...