History of sport

Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to hunting, with information on equipment, history and origins, riding, training hounds, and much more.

Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships, before becoming just another ballplayer.

More than a century ago, the barrel-chested strongman clad in leopard skins, Roman sandals and carrying an oversized barbell was a common performer in fairs, circuses and vaudeville theaters.

The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash.

Covering the post-Civil War period through the 1950s, this richly illustrated--300 photographs!

Sport's "e;concussion crisis"e; has been characterized by controversial scientific discoveries, athlete suicides, and high-profile lawsuits involving professional sports leagues, while provoking widespread media coverage, changes to game rules, and debate about the future of many popular sports.

Why did killing a fox mean liberty?

Received the Hal Higdon Journalism Award, recognizing serious journalism about running from the Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA, 2007).

The best-selling collection of football facts, stats and stories is back!

Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC.

This book is the first academic all-island history of either rugby union or association football, two of the three most popular male sporting pastimes in Ireland, across the seven decades that followed the political partition of that country between 1920 and 1922.

Winner, 1997 Seymour Medal for Best Biography--Society for American Baseball Research.

This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists.

At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture.

It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century.

1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book AwardSport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective.

From his first year in the majors, George Herman "e;Babe"e; Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity.

Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars that address significant international issues relative to sporting practices from a historical perspective.

Contributions by Amy Bass, Ashley Farmer, Sarah K.

Nebraska is not usually thought of as a focal point in the history of black baseball, yet the state has seen its share of contributions to the African American baseball experience.

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us.

This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate.

This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.

This work is a biography of Carl Hubbell, a baseball legend who was active in the 1930s for the New York Giants and an eight-time All-Star.

The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports - baseball, basketball, cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse - across the two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few years in the very present.

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown.

Winner of the 2024 Speaker's Book AwardThe true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship.

This book represents a bold statement concerning the excitement and energy of the field of sports ethics and philosophy in contemporary terms.

The aim of this book, in discussing Elias's theory, is not to refute it.

Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball.

Among early 20th century baseball players, John Preston "e;Pete"e; Hill (1882-1951) was considered the equal of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker--only skin color kept him out of the majors.

Is football an athletic contest or a social event?

Hastily formed in 1883 as a rival, third major league, the Union Association upset the moguls of the baseball world and disrupted the status quo.

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body.

Bringing together leading match-fixing researchers from different fields, this book offers new theoretical and applied perspectives on this persistent problem in sport and wider society.

Though basketball dates back more than 120 years, it did not make its Olympic debut until 1936.

Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar.

Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world.

Revised new edition

The semi-final between Germany and France (8:7 on penalties) played in Seville on 8 July 1982 was one of the most memorable matches in the history of the World Cup.

This book examines Japan's Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline that dominates the discourse on the period.

2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner Silver Medal, World HistoryNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime.

Offering the best in original research and analysis, Base Ball is an annually published book series that promotes the study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020 'You need this.

The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences.

Australians are surrounded by beaches.

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England.

Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports.

A great depression, worsening Anglo-Australian relations, the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions.

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending.