History of sport

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.

Having finished the previous season a mere game behind pennant-winning St.

"e;My day-to-day existence,"e; writes Kathleen Lockwood, "e;rested on the ability of my husband to throw a tiny leather ball over ninety-five miles an hour past a large wooden bat.

History has remembered Carl Furillo as an opponent of Jackie Robinson becoming a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, despite that being untrue.

Fred Hutchinson, the popular manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was at the top of his profession when he was suddenly diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in December 1963.

This work presents biographical and career sketches of each of the 637 participants in the 1884 Major League Baseball season.

Since 1876, approximately 16,000 young men have enjoyed at least a taste of glory by appearing in big league games, many of them only a few times.

In 1911, decades before coast-to-coast travel became a fact of life in major league baseball, the Boston Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken.

This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which operated for 60 years in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.

In the spring of 1933, with a new president in office and a banking crisis narrowly averted, there was optimism in Washington, D.

A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the color barrier).

Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a mythical drought attributed to the team's loss of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.

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.

The New York Clipper (according to its masthead "e;The Oldest American Sporting and Theatrical Journal"e;) was the standard bearer of sports weeklies during the 19th century.

He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost.

In the fall of 1908, no one could have guessed that the Chicago Cubs, a team that had dominated the National league three straight years, would for a century be shut out in its efforts to reclaim the world championship.

Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players until Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige made their way into the Hall of Fame.

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

The Washington Senators have a special place in baseball history as one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to play the game.

Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player.

The retiring of a number to honor a player likely began with the New York Yankees.

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.

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration.

The era of free agency in Major League Baseball ensured that it would be difficult to keep star teams together year after year.

This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive skills.

This work examines the historical significance of the state of New Jersey in the Negro League legacy, especially the black baseball players, teams, owners and managers, and their struggles against not just segregation, and their accomplishments.

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

This biography traces the hard life and colorful career of "e;Iron Man"e; McGinnity from his childhood working the coalfields of Illinois to his death in 1929.

SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'Wonderfully wide-focused, unfailingly readable and laced with passages of insightful analysis, Tim Wigmore's history of test cricket is a true tour de force.

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending.

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.

Hack Wilsons record 191 RBIs in 1930 may well stand the test of time, and so may the record of his hard-drinking lifestyle.

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

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.

The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before.

One of baseball's most insightful commentators picks the 50 greatest Red Sox players of all time.

This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers.

Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the leagues basketball history.

Peppered throughout with more than 200 images from Ibrox's official archives - many of them never before published - this sumptious publication captures the club's rich heritage and proud pedigree of great managers and players, devoted fans, and an almost endless list of trophies.

Brush up on your cricket knowledge of the Ashes with a hilarious and alternative guide to cricket's most fiercely contested series.

Exclusive to this ebook-only edition, relive the incredible summer of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games with this inspirational series of articles from the Telegraph, available as a collection for the first time.

Wembley, 30 July 1966 Geoff Hurst completes his hat trick England are the World Cup champions.

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.

'This history of the Waterhouse dynasty is a cut above the field of racing books that burst from the barriers this time of year' - Sydney Morning HeraldDrama, glamour, scandal, success - and very high stakes.

Winner: Ferguson Kansas History Book AwardA Kansas Notable BookAs baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game.

Winner: North American Society for Sport History Book AwardIn the 1970s sitcom The Odd Couple, Felix and Oscar argue over a racing greyhound that Oscar won in a bet.

Some presidents throw out baseballs first pitch of the season.

Winner: North American Society for Sport History AwardNotable Title in American Intellectual History, Society for United States Intellectual HistoryAward of Superior Achievement, Illinois Historical SocietyThe quarterback sends his wide receiver deep.