Sporting Venues

In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hi...

The Green Monster. The Triangle. Peskys Pole. They are but a few of the defining features of Fenway Park, home base for legions of devoted Red Sox ...

A history of beloved cricket grounds from around the world. Using a Then and Now format, historic pictures of cricket grounds are paired with their...

Study the masters! Improve your handicap, swing, and technique.Move from Saturday-golfer to amateur extraordinaire. Packed with everything golfing ...

Old Comiskey Park includes essays and memories covering the history and evolution of the former home of the Chicago White Sox, as well as its impor...

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

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret de...

South Africans are world-renowned for their love of extreme endurance sporting activities and their ability to organise world-class events. Some of...

The story of Griffin Park is a long, eventful one and this book aims to capture the essence of Brentford Football Club''s proud home and the place ...

The Oval in Kennington, south London with its instantly recognisable gasholders is one of sports most iconic and popular venues. It has played ho...

It was the field of dreams, the birthplace of legends, the hallowed home of our sporting gods. Historic Wembley Stadium, with its iconic Twin Tower...

Remarkable Racecourses is a beautifully presented collection of amazing racecourses from five continents captured by some of the world's greatest r...

Built in 1912, Detroit's Tiger Stadium provided unmatched access for generations of baseball fans. Based on a classic grandstand design, its dev...

The American sports stadium, for all its raucous glory, is an overlooked centerpiecea veritable templeof our national culture. A hallowed ground fo...

'Thirty feet above ground, I picked some flecks of peeling paint from my skin and looked clean across the dressing-room rooftops ... to the cars wh...

Remarkable Golf Courses encompasses the extremes of the sport from the highest golf course in La Paz, Bolivia, to the lowest, in Death Valley, USA...

While most serious fans know that the Deadball Era was characterized by low scoring, aggressive baserunning, and strong pitching, few understand...

The early 21st century has been a golden age for British track cycling, with world championship glory for the likes of Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins a...

The beautiful game at its most beautiful. Featuring over 200 pages of photographs from Leon''''s travels across Great Britain and into Europe watch...

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

Twickenham Stadium is the home of Rugby Union and the England national rugby team. It is the largest stadium in the world to be devoted purely to t...

In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad ...

Open spaces, sport and outdoor recreation are important components of people's lives. They provide many cultural, social, economic and environmenta...

Over the years, I have seen more than a thousand football matches at locations across Britain and Europe, from grounds that were little more than p...

Since 1858 cricketers from all over the world have dreamed of performing beneath the unchanging gaze of Father Time. Their adventures are to be fou...

On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford and Cecil S...

A hundred years or so ago, kids growing up in St. Andrews, Scotland, kids like Bill Kilpatricks father, took to golf as naturally as to breathing. ...

The Ryder Cup is one of the world's most dramatic sporting events. In 2014, the stakes were higher than ever, as the US team sought to recover fro...

Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turne...

Allez Cymru is a full-colour and bilingual illustrated celebration of that amazing and never-to-be-forgotten summer of football and fun in France w...