History of sport

Over the years, Canadians have smugly asserted their country's more tolerant culture in race relations.

Over the years, Canadians have smugly asserted their country's more tolerant culture in race relations.

Celebrating one of AFLs longest-standing and most iconic traditions Have you ever wondered what makes Australian Rules Football so unique?

An A to Z of cricket stories, legends and sledges - plus fascinating facts and figures about Australia's cricketing men and women.

'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 TIMEMost batters just do their best, yet the top players create art.

Known as the "e;Greatest Spectacle in Racing,"e; the Indy 500 humbly began in 1911.

At speeds of over 230 miles per hour, the Indy open-wheel race cars set the bar for American Championship car racing.

HARNESS RACING IN THE KEYSTONE STATE is a combination of a history, reference and coffee table book, comprised of a photo gallery and racing tidbits.

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The town of Foley, Alabama was founded by John Burton Foley, a very successful businessman from Chicago, and was settled by individuals and families from all over our great nation.

Following numerous courses in scuba diving, Gary Knapp embarked on a twelve-year filming adventure inspired by his promise to God to share with mankind the majestic life He created both under and above the world s oceans.

William Bourne grew up loving baseball, playing in an under-eighteen league in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his brother.

This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth.

Relive the thrilling history of America's Triple Crown with this definitive account of its legendary champions.

Relive the thrilling history of America's Triple Crown with this definitive account of its legendary champions.

Ed Van Put begins this important book with the history of native brook trout and offers little-known details about their sizes, range, and demise from over-fishing, the growth of streamside industries, and the introduction of competitive species.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Detroit Tigers baseball club was founded in 1894 and stands as the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the American League.

This sensitive commentary on Jackie Robinsons life describes his childhood in Pasadena, through his years as a sports hero, to his later involvement in politics and the Civil Rights movement.

Throughout the 2008 season, each game played at the world's most beloved stadium brought ';The House That Ruth Built' closer to shutting its gates forever.

During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams.

For more than sixty yearsfrom the 1890s to the 1950sboxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity.

The competition level in Little League has never been tougher, but the kids on the Jackie Robinson West team faced their own set of challenges on and off the baseball diamond.

DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America celebrating its recent triumph over Nazism and ever-curious about the new age of color television, rocket ships, and technology.

This book carefully examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports.

As the New York Mets celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of National League baseball, this rollicking chronicle recounts a half century of the team's ups and downs.

Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like ';a festive prison yard' during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence.

Another peek at baseballs good old daysor, in this case, bad old daysby veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer.

In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball.

An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series.

Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseballs color line.

Separating fact from myth, Kalb attempts to determine which of these long-held conspiracy theories hold water, and which ones fall flat under scrutiny.

A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later.

What if Studs Terkel wrote a book with Bill James?

In every sport, in every country around the world, there are fans on the losing side who know that something other than skill and luck beat their favorite team or player.

The New York Mets fan is an Amazin creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Princes Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team.

A behind-the-scenes look at the most powerful voices on New York's AM dial, this is the all-encompassing history of WFAN.

Voices and MemoriesThe Curse, the Green Monster, the Rocket,thehomer.

Now Updated Through the 2020 SeasonAn exciting history of the world's greatest baseball team from a former Yankees Public Relations Officer.

Papier-mch tigers, riots on the field, Chinese bandits, tailgating before a trip to the stadium nicknamed Death Valleyall these things and more describe the events, places, and people associated with over 100 years of football at Louisiana State University.

The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions.

The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece.

This book ranks the 50 greatest records in sports while also taking a personal look at some of these amazing feats and the athletes behind them.

Monte Irvin, a New York Giants star player who got his start in the Negro Leagues, pays homage to baseball's unsung heroes and long-forgotten stars by selecting the top five players at each position and the top five managers, owners, pioneers, or organizers from the Negro Leagues.

The most famous shot in golf history-from Gene Sarazen's double eagle, which led to victory at the 1935 Masters to Tom Watson's nearly impossible chip shot in the 1982 U.

During World War II, the National Football League faced a crisis unimaginable today: a shortage of players.

Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because "e;I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.

2014 SLA Baseball Caucus Readers Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association The Deadball Era (19011920) is a baseball fans dream.

Since the founding of professional baseball, few teams have risen above years of mediocrity only to see their fortunes interrupted by war and tragedy.

The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon.

Having already penned Getting in the Game, his inside scoop on the mayhem within baseball's winter meetings, Josh Lewin once again gives baseball fans a window into the big leagues.