History of sport

For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white.

There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments.

Tracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport.

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history.

Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world.

'David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been'.

Burleigh Grimes--forever to be remembered as the ill-tempered spitballer with the perpetual five o'clock shadow.

Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.

Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research.

The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport.

At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss.

This work uses original material from clubs and sporting organizations to illuminate the evolution of sporting activity nation-wide.

Orwell was wrong.

On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters.

Fit for America is at once an intellectual biography of Major John L.

A visually stunning road trip through pro baseball's wacky, wondrous, and revered ballpark attractionsExploding scoreboards, treetop seats, and neon skylines are just three of the more than 100 ballpark design features, field eccentricities, historic displays, traditions, concession items, and even super-fans and mascots profiled in this armchair baseball journey.

This book investigates the declining status of cricket within contemporary British society after the high-water mark of England's Ashes victory in 2005.

This innovative study examines the Olympic programme from a critical feminist perspective, to shed new light on the issues of gender and inclusion at the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Movement.

The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century.

This is a multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular.

1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports HistoryThe record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport.

This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s.

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture-and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide.

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

In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S.

Charles "e;Dazzy"e; Vance became known as the strike out king after leading the National League in strikeouts seven years in a row.

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.

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game.

This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing.

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

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged.

The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions.

Although he never played a day in the white major leagues, John Henry "e;Pop"e; Lloyd was one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived.

During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before.

In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup - later known as the Stanley Cup - to crown the first Canadian hockey champions.

Eddie Plank won 326 games and has the most complete games and shutouts by a left-handed pitcher in Major League history.

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history.

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.

Mathewson, one of the towering figures in baseball history, won 373 games in 17 seasons, all but one of those victories for the New York Giants.

The story of the "e;Miracle"e; Braves is one of the most memorable in baseball history, but less well known is what the club did after that spectacular season.

This is the first book in English that adopts a critical socio-historical perspective to examine the important themes and challenges of Asian indigenous culture and sport.

A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America's sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden Age of American sports.

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

House of David barnstorming baseball (1915-1957) was played without pre-determined schedules, leagues, player statistics or standings.

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe.

In his day, Jack Johnson-born in Texas, the son of former slaves-was the most famous black man on the planet.

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

In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of televisions most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.

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