History of Sport

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...

From 1877 to 1896, the popularity of bicycles increased exponentially, and Boston was in on it from the start. The Boston Bicycle Club was the firs...

Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucia...

The San Francisco 49ers are among the most dynamic franchises, not only in the National Football League but in all of professional sports. They hav...

The Albion Miscellany collects together all the vital information you never knew you needed to know about West Brom. In these pages you will find i...

When the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company formed the Newton Heath L and YR Cricket and Football Club in 1878, they could have had no idea w...

This history of Gaelic games and the social world around them has been an outstanding success. From how and where Gaelic games were played and watc...

Hibs and Hearts first locked horns on Christmas Day 1875. Hearts won 1-0 and even the most ardent Hibs fan would have to admit that the Tynecastle ...

On a rainy night in Gothenburg in May 1983 twelve young Scotsmen turned the footballing world on its head. Against all the odds, those players took...

Grand Prix Yesterday & Today is a timely celebration of motor racing. Each spread will show a facet of the sport from those pioneering days of ...