History 25

Jam-packed with cool baseball trivia, history-making records, unforgettable moments, and wacky true tales of your favorite games, players and events. This book hits a grand slam right out of the par……続きを見る

From 1953 to 1959, professional football’s offensive and defensive tactics were in a transitional phase. As teams developed innovative strategies to attack the 5-2-4 defense, passing efficiency impr……続きを見る

**Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The lively and fascinating story of baseball’s 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch** In August 2012, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Ma……続きを見る

From Zack Hample’s The Baseball, this is the definitive, always-entertaining, never-fail guide to successfully snagging baseballs at Major League games. Luckーor hard work and skill? Zack Hample has……続きを見る

Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand contemporary processes of international migration. This is the first……続きを見る

Carlos Paula was a hard-hitting outfielder from Cuba. He made his way through the ranks of the Washington Senators' minor league affiliates. He arrived for spring training in 1954 but was cut when t……続きを見る

Who is the greatest ever footballer? Pele? Maradona? Cruyff? Who is the greatest ever British footballer? Charlton? Best? Dalglish? Who is the country's greatest defender, midfielder, goalkeeper? Wh……続きを見る

In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, ……続きを見る

Kiwis used to define ourselves as either League or Union supporters - never both. Not any more. In the rarified world of professional sport, the divisions between two traditional rival codes have be……続きを見る

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including……続きを見る

True stories around the Adventures of The Runners that Hold and Guard the Olympic Torch. Over 1000 years ago between 776 BC and AD 395 the Olympic Games began in Olympia, Western School. In the Anci……続きを見る

THE ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR ANY SPORTS FAN, FROM ONE OF THE REIGNING KINGS OF SPORTS TALK RADIO, CHRISTOPHER “MAD DOG” RUSSO Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams’s .406 season or Joe DiMaggio’……続きを見る

For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as “test labs” ……続きを見る

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a h……続きを見る

Over 80 stunning, ingenious and absorbing sport infographics! Infographic Guide to Sport presents unique, witty and surprising facts about every type of sport, from badminton to karate, cricket to i……続きを見る

One of the fastest growing outdoor sports, snowshoeing appeals to the young and the old, the beginner and the seasoned physical fitness advocate alike who want to get into shape or stay in shape dur……続きを見る

A satirical obituary from 1882 mourned the death of English cricket after a match in which Australia won on English soil for the first time. The body would be cremated, the notice said, and the ashe……続きを見る

Whether it’s a ticket stub from a game that father and son saw together, an autographed photograph from a hero, or a puck that went up and over the boards, hockey memorabilia is a record of our belo……続きを見る

For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as “test labs” ……続きを見る

Metal detecting is a very rewarding hobby in more ways than one. Just swinging a detector on a warm sunny day in pleasant surroundings is a real pleasure in itself. Not only is there the prospect of……続きを見る

In 1971, could a little group of unknown automotive engineers independently design and build a race car from an old 1964 Pontiac sedan and really compete against professional, factory-backed racing ……続きを見る

Relive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory! Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win alm……続きを見る

Dwadzieścia lat po zimnej wojnie James M. Tabor z zacięciem korespondenta wojennego relacjonuje wyścig do wnętrza Ziemi. Jego bohaterowie ー Amerykanin Bill Stone i Ukrainiec Aleksander Klimczuk ー ……続きを見る

Rivivi le emozioni dei nerazzurri di ieri e di oggi! Un ebook per conoscere e ricordare tutto sulla tua squadra del cuore. I protagonisti, le vittorie, i trofei, le partitre indimenticabili, i gioca……続きを見る

La storia dell'A.s. Roma. La fondazione, il campo di Testaccio, le partite indimenticabili, gli primi scudetti e i successi internazionali. Da Dino Viola a Sensi, da Falcao a Totti, da Herrera a Zem……続きを見る

For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded……続きを見る

"Maître Jacques", wie ihn das Fahrerfeld respektgebietend nannte, düste in "Anquetil tout seul", dem Sportbuch des Jahres 2012 in Frankreich, durch die Kindheit seines Autors Paul Fournel wie eine m……続きを見る

When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to ……続きを見る

Women’s fighting sports have a rich and storied history. As far back as the eighteenth century, female fighters battled at varying levels, from county fairs to elite events. With new opportunities t……続きを見る

Philadelphia was essentially the birthplace of boxing in America, the city where matches first took shape in the back of bars. Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champ, fought more times in P……続きを見る