History of sport

While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968).

The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the Negro League's best and most exciting teams.

'A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football' Matthew Syed, The Times'A fascinating assessment of football in 2019' ObserverAn insightful, comprehensive and always entertaining appreciation of how European football has developed over the last three decades by the author of the much heralded The Mixer.

When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "e;a spectacular leap,"e; African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years.

This account of the expansion of the major leagues is "e;a fascinating look at an almost forgotten era .

Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors.

Ben Hogan's The Modern Fundamentals of Golf is the best-selling sports book ever, with over six million copies sold worldwide.

Though baseball would eventually come to embody the American spirit, in the nineteenth century onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence.

Baseball transactions--trades, sales, purchases, free-agent activities--ignite passions.

Arguably the greatest ball club in National League history, the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers recorded some staggering statistics.

Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning.

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition.

The basis for the ESPN documentary, New York Times columnist Harvey Araton's When the Garden Was Eden is a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks.

This book provides an historical overview of the formation of sports media in Latin America and its role in the construction of the political history of Latin American sport.

A SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Personal, political, powerful and about so much more than race and sport.

Completely revised and updated featuring two brand new chapters, in preparation for the 2019 Ashes seriesFrom the William Hill Award-Winning Author of A Lot of Hard Yakka comes Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 12 Matches by Simon Hughes.

The institutional relationship between sport and the military appears to be intensifying.

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland's history.

Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually.

With a foreword by McLaren CEO Zak Brown and written with inside access, this is the real-time, unfolding story of one of F1 s greatest ever teams, as they rise back up from oblivion.

MASTERFUL Raphael HonigsteinThe story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!

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Jackie Robinson famously said that a life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives.

This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball academies run by American professional teams in the Dominican Republic?

Starting university can be a daunting prospect, as students come to grips with new ways of working, learning and thinking.

Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark.

Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history.

This book assesses association football's history and development in Ireland from the late 1870s until the early twenty-first century.

Chronicling the 1902-1960 rivalry between the Minneapolis Millers and St.

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

The best baseball team of the 20th century?

This book gives a fascinating history of the English experience of sport, following its development through the centuries from its earliest beginnings in social play and pastimes, via its adoption as an alternative to the clock-watching routine of urban life, to its modern incarnation as a global business.

'The game isn't what it seems from the outside.

Every sport has its subtleties, and in baseball, one subtlety is the batting line-up.

Updated & expanded-this entry in the bestselling bathroom reader series is full of hockey trivia on the sport's colorful history, legendary players, and more.

Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport.

This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Professional baseball is full of arcane team names.

Sporting Performances is the first anthology to tackle sports and physical culture from a performance perspective; it serves as an invitation and provocation for scholarly discourse on the connections between sports and physical culture, and theatre and performance.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PINSENT MASONS SPORTS WRITING AWARDA Times Best Sports Book of 2023 'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph 'Lively, rich and readable' The Spectator 'Thoughtful and entertaining' Guardian 'Completely eye-opening - every page contains a gem' Marina Hyde The remarkable stories of how sport shaped the British people.

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours.

Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport.

Gib Bodet's 70-year love affair with baseball dates from his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and it has carried him through parts of six decades as a scout with the Red Sox, Tigers, Expos, Angels, Royals, and Dodgers.

Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand contemporary processes of international migration.

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated.

The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball's most renowned and successful franchise.

This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball.

The story of one of the most significant and overlooked seasons in professional baseball, told through the travails of the Spokane Indians On June 24, 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team crashed to the bottom of a deep ravine in Washington state's Cascade mountains, killing nine players.