History of sport

This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since 2019 known as World Athletics.

Baseball transactions--trades, sales, purchases, free agents coming or leaving--have always had the ability to stir the interest and passion of fans.

Competitive swimming is one of only five sports to have been contested at every Olympic Games since the first competition of the modern era was held in 1896.

Most baseball fans know of the amazing accomplishments Hall of Fame members achieved on the field, from Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak to Cy Young's 511 career wins.

Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.

This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history.

This book examines the topic of identity and collective memory in football fandom.

From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest.

The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports.

At turns lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filho's chronicle of "e;the beautiful game"e; is a classic of Brazilian sports writing.

In the late 1980s football was in a state of crisis.

This vintage book contains anecdotes and reminiscences of the author's varied sporting experiences on land and water from across the globe.

The Cleveland Indians of 1928 were a far cry from the championship team of 1920.

The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City's team for more than a century.

The field of sport history is a relatively new research domain, situated at the intersection of a number of disciplines and sub-disciplines.

In All the Memorable Rounds, author Tripp Bowden asserts that it is the experience that defines a golf course.

Analyzing the key players and political moments in women's professional tennis since 1968, this book explores the historical lineage of social activism within women's tennis and the issues, expressions, risks, and effects associated with each cohort of players.

This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 'The gripping story of England's transformation from prissy blockers to double world champions'The Times'A must-read for any cricket lover'Nasser Hussain, Former England captain and Sky Sports commentatorThe inside story of how England became the first men's team to hold both of cricket's World Cups simultaneously, from the players and key people involved.

For nearly 40 years, Ed Bolden dominated black baseball in Philadelphia.

The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic teams in all of professional sports, representing not just a city or a state, but an entire region--theyre New Englands sole entry into MLB.

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country.

Emerging from the 'history from below' movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions).

What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common?

Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports?

More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager Connie Mack, winning three World Series and four pennants from 1910 through 1914.

This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of recreational scuba diving practices.

With virtually the same personnel that had won both the National League pennant and the World Series the previous season, the 1926 Pittsburgh Pirates were favored by the majority of preseason prognosticators to capture the pennant for the second year in a row.

This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context.

This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947.

The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before.

Most baseball fans know Red Sox owner Harry Frazee as "e;the man who sold Babe Ruth,"e; initiating a championship drought that plagued the Red Sox from 1919 through 2003.

This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools.

'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis' Elis JamesRULE #1: DON'T WATCH THE BALLYes, football is about stars, goals and glory.

Soccer players may get all the glory, but behind every great player is a great coach.

lanterne rouge (French | noun): The competitor who finishes last in the Tour de France Froome, Wiggins, Merckx we know the winners of the Tour de France, but what about the men who finish last?

'a wonderful tale' David 'Bumble' Lloyd'one of cricket's most distinctive writers' Andy ZaltzmanTHIS GROUND-BREAKING BOOK REVEALS THE SCIENCE, SKILL AND CULTURE THAT MADE THE 50 GREATEST BATTERS OF ALL TIME.

The anticipation of another showdown with the Bambino transformed Wrigley Field.

Tennis is one of the world's most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate.

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora.

Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world.

In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the steep-sided Hill of Cronus.

One of the best managers in the early years of professional baseball, Frank Selee (1859-1909) built two great teams.

From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport.

The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered.

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature.

A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sportsUnwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics-and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced.

';Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created ';the beautiful game.