History of sport

"e;Shoeless"e; Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players.

This is the first book-length biography of Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk, once described as the yardstick against which all other catchers were measured.

This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women's football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game's historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players' day-to-day challenges.

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport.

This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers.

This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

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.

Long before the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants brought the major leagues to California in 1958, professional baseball thrived on the West Coast in the form of the Pacific Coast League (PCL).

An authoritative look back at the decade that brought Americas favorite game into the modern era.

'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.

Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy.

The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting.

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.

This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their performance and tendencies.

The Troy Haymakers were a pioneer baseball team legendary for exploits on and off the field.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film.

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Controversies in Exercise Science introduces a series of selected unresolved issues in the field of human exercise science.

The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football'A must read.

This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.

Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades.

In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City, which housed the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition - and a state-of-the-art stadium built to house the first London Olympics.

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This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people's changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today.

Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars.

In this compellingly argued and deeply personal book, respected sports historian Michael Oriard--who was himself a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame--explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete.

The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport.

The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball.

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport.

Gabby Harnett is believed by many to be the greatest catcher of all time.

This is a book about football.

The life of a major league baseball scout is far from glamorous.

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.

Distantly related to a Confederate general, Ty Cobb was a strapping Augusta youth who became a star for the Detroit Tigers.

This book explores, analyses, and explains divergent ideologies and practices of gymnastics in selected European nations.

During the 19th century, baseball was a game with few rules, many rowdy players and just one umpire.

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

Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry--and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe.

The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team--team being the operative word.

The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover.

When in 2000 the Baseball Writers Association of America elected the ever-durable Carlton Fisk to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, many fans quietly pointed to the Hall's omission of Fisk' greatest American League contemporary, Thurman Munson.

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This book looks at the relationship of the cock and cockfighting in Britain from ancient times to the early modern period, showing the societal and cultural changes that affected that relationship.

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history.

In this compellingly argued and deeply personal book, respected sports historian Michael Oriard who was himself a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete.

In June of 1938, southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds became the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters--an achievement that has stood unsurpassed for more than 80 years.

The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study.

This volume traces the rise and transformation of organized sport and its impact on social patterns and gender roles.

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.