History of sport

Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport.

Home of the Game celebrates the unique position Camden Yards holds as a symbol of the modern game and a prototype for new ballparks across the country.

After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finally poised to claim their first National League pennant since 1927.

Ice skates made from animal bones were used in Europe for millennia before metal-bladed skates were invented.

This is the first book that includes all of Guy W.

One of the greatest pitchers of the 19th century, Tim Keefe (1857-1933) was an ardent believer in the artisan work ethic that was becoming outmoded in burgeoning industrial America.

Offering the best in original research and analysis, Base Ball is an annually published book series that promotes the study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture.

This Volume explores the enormous impact the ethos of Muscular Christianity has had an on modern civil society in English-speaking nations and among the peoples they colonized.

This vintage book contains an extensive account of Irish hunting from 1876-77.

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.

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

The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa.

Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century.

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

This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists.

From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.

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

The Cold War era spawned a host of anxieties in American society, and in response, Americans sought cultural institutions that reinforced their sense of national identity and held at bay their nagging insecurities.

The Pacific Coast League enjoyed a reputation as one of the premier minor leagues in organized baseball.

Football is unquestionably the world's most popular and influential sport.

From 1985 to 1992, The Baseball Hall of Shame series chronicled more than 100 years of baseball goofs and gaffes, selling more than 700,000 copies.

As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are forever linked because of the barriers they encountered, the discrimination they endured, the athletic gifts they exhibited, and especially the courage and dignity they displayed.

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

In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history.

In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on 'the pieces of the puzzle', the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background.

The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a 'way of life'.

A collection ofghost storiescollected from baseballplayers, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, whichexplores the sometimes amusing and sometimes spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal.

Few franchises in the deadball era won as consistently or as often as the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics.

Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia.

Each generation of Pirate fans has been blessed with a pantheon of heroes: Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.

Some presidents throw out baseballs first pitch of the season.

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies.

Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century.

Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "e;NCAA North"e; during the 1940s and 1950s.

The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society.

Since the Boston Red Sox came into existence in 1901, some of the greatest players ever to step onto a baseball diamond have filled its rosters.

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945, Fred Clarke began his career in 1894 with a record day at the plate, going 5 for 5.

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.

Immergiti nel mondo della forza mentale con l'entusiasmante opera di Sami Duymaz, noto anche come Samuel Samiris.

'This book expertly captures the extraordinary events and legendary drivers who made the sport what it is today.

The process of converting the 'past' into 'history' involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other historical disciplines.

During the last four decades women's and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes.

This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team.

Sport heritage is increasingly being recognised as a potent instigator of tourism; be it touring a historic stadium, visiting a sports hall of fame, or participating in a sport fantasy camp, tourists now have a vast array of locations and options to experience the sporting past.

Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring?

One of the greatest pitchers of the 19th century, Tim Keefe (1857-1933) was an ardent believer in the artisan work ethic that was becoming outmoded in burgeoning industrial America.

This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.

This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavor of the period by providing yearly overviews from the standpoint of each team and by focusing more deeply on 30 or more players of the era--not only such legendary stars as Cy Young and Willie Keeler, but also relative unknowns such as Bill Keister and Kip Selbach.

Sport ist ein Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft.