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Autobiography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, beginning with his athletic career and dealing particularly with baseball and the first step toward equal participation by African Americans in this great sport.

In October 2015, the Chinese Communist Party banned its 88 million members from excessive drinking, improper sexual relationships and holding golf club memberships.

Coaches always thought that N'Golo Kante was too small and too shy to make it in the world of football.

At the age of ten, Serge Gnabry was wanted by some of the biggest football clubs in the world.

Robert Lewandowski is one of the best strikers of his generation - but his journey to the top wasn't always easy.

As a teenager, Kylian Mbappe was one of the best footballers on the planet.

It didn't always look as though Raheem Sterling would make it as a world-class player.

Quick, composed and physically dominant - Virgil van Dijk is the defender who has it all.

This team scores lots of goals.

Ice hockey is a fairly minor sport especially in the UK.

Pearl Zane Grey was born January 31st, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio.

Business success used to look like football.

Never Surrender: The Life of Douglas Jardine is the enthralling story of England's most controversial cricket captain, forever associated with bodyline bowling on MCC's tour to Australia in 1932/33.

No Longer Naive is an in-depth look at the history of African football at the game's greatest showcase event.

Few people have made such an impact on so many areas of football, in so many parts of the world, as Gordon Jago.

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The Sunshine Kids is no ordinary autobiography.

In The World at Your Feet: One Man's Search for the Soul of the Beautiful Game, Tim Hartley takes us on a footballing world tour.

From 1890 to 1958, Sunderland were part of football's elite with a 68-year unbroken run in the top flight.

First and Last: How I Made European History With Hibs is the fascinating autobiography of Jackie Plenderleith, the only surviving player from the first British side to compete in the European Cup.

Few things convey the identity of Britain's towns and cities more vocally than football and food, yet put them together and they become incompatible foes.

Football's Braveheart is the riveting life story of Dave Mackay, the fearless, skilled, heroic and barrel-chested left-half who was an icon for Spurs, Hearts, Derby and Scotland.

The Life and Death of Andy Ducat is the fascinating and captivating biography of one of England's earliest sporting heroes.

Generazione Wunderteam is the enthralling story of the Austrian national football team of the 1930s, an innovative side that dazzled Viennese crowds and sparked a new-found passion for football both at local and international level.

And Bring the Darkness Home is a haunting exploration of how the mental scars of war destroyed an international cricket career, tore a family apart and left destitute a man who seemed to have it all.

Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje: The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football is the story of a dazzling football dream.

No other club in women's football can match the record of Olympique Lyonnais Feminin in Europe.

The Miracle is the inside story of how Greece shocked the footballing world by winning the 2004 European Championship.

Silver Linings examines an historic and unforgettable period in the history of England's national football team.

Wimbledon's Greatest Games features 50 of the most exciting and absorbing tennis matches ever played on the All England Club's courts.

The period leading up to 1999 had been grim for Stoke City fans - relegation, stagnation, embarrassment and board conflicts were commonplace at the club.

Former Gloucestershire Media Sports Writer of the Year Rob Harris has been playing village cricket for almost 40 years.

My Seventy Years of Spurs is veteran sportswriter Norman Giller's unique story of Tottenham Hotspur over the seven decades he has followed the Lilywhites.

The Fix: How the First Champions League Was Won and Why We All Lost is an engrossing examination of the 1992/93 UEFA Champions League season.

Wimbledon has long stood at the pinnacle of British and world tennis.

For five incredible years from 1976 to 1980, Bjorn Borg ruled the men's singles at Wimbledon by carrying off consecutive titles.

Fed up with being stuck at home?

What is it like to support a small team in a city where a footballing giant lurks?

When the final whistle was blown at Upton Park on 10 May 2016, it was more than a football match that had ended.

Does the sight of half-scarves enrage you?

All Together Now is one of the great sports stories.

Panenka's pearl of a penalty in Belgrade, van Basten's volley of a lifetime in Munich, Gazza's agonising near-miss at Wembley: over its six decades, the UEFA European Championship has thrown up many of the most memorable stories in football lore.

A Deeper Shade of Blue charts the tumultuous years of Chelsea Football Club between 1972 and 1977 when the glittering cup-winning side of the early 70s was broken up, and stars such as Peter Osgood and Alan Hudson departed, along with manager Dave Sexton.

Watch the Throne: The Tactics Behind the Premier League's European Champions, 1999-2019 lifts the lid on the tactics used by Premier League clubs on their respective journeys to Champions League glory.

Football has never seemed so distant from its fans.

Bowler's Name?

Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World charts the growth of the game in each major footballing country, from the very first kick to the first World Cup in 1930.

Do They Play Cricket in Ireland?

In 1976, young Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Graham Tutt had the world at his feet.

An Ode to Four Four Two: Football's Simplest and Finest Formation examines how coaches in Europe, and particularly England, settled on the 4-4-2 formation to build iconic teams which would dominate both domestically and in Europe.