Sports Teams & Clubs

The 1972 Green Bay Packers were not expected to challenge for a playoff spot, or even to top their four victories from the season before. But th...

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...

From the thousands of matches ever played by Arsenal, stretching from a muddy field on the Isle of Dogs in the 19th century to the Premier League e...

Club photographer Shane Healeys detailed and colourful photographic account of the campaign which saw Forest Green Rovers claim their place in the ...

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

The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of writings about them, ...

While the Super Bowl has become a worldwide cultural event, the annual league championship games had a long history even before the first Super ...

Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginnings in the late 19th century up to...

Sometimes life isn't fair: Most of the finishes in the 52-year history of the franchise (1901-1953) were in the depths of the second division. T...

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...

Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid: A Tactical Analysis - Attacking A Chance for You to Learn Mourinho's 4-2-3-1 System of Play, Tactics, Each Player's Re...

The New York Yankees are synonymous with home runs. With more than 14,000 round-trippers to its credit, New York has out-homered the next most p...

Steinbrenner nearly beats the Cavaliers to the NBA by eight years In an eleventh-floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 196...

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...

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

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

Before they acquired Babe Ruth or won a single championship, the New York Yankees (ne Highlanders) inspired the strongest of feelings in basebal...

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...

Being a Phillies fan has never been easy. The team has amassed the most losses of any professional sports franchise in history, as well as the long...

In the mad, money-driven world of football, some rather interesting and sometimes shocking kits have been worn upon the field of play. This book is...

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...