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Il primo fu Nino Bibbia, italiano di Svizzera, buttandosi a testa in giù sulla pista di skeleton di St. Moritz nel 1948; le ultime tre, a PyeongChang, nel 2018, sono state Arianna Fontana, Michela M……続きを見る

"Orioles Magic" is a phrase fans still associate with the 1979-1983 seasons, Baltimore's last championship era, when they played excellent, exciting ball with a penchant for late-inning heroics. Thi……続きを見る

Paddle through the watery history of the Midwest’s Cream City. The success and survival of Milwaukee lies in the rivers that meander through its streets and the great lake at its eastern boundary. T……続きを見る

“One of sports’ most storied championship teams gets its proper due” (Tom Verducci) in this definitive history of the 1969 Miracle Mets from the New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Wint……続きを見る

Dietro ogni medaglia, olimpica o di quartiere, ci sono sogni, speranze, sudori, amarezze, autodistruzioni, rinascite. Dietro ogni medaglia ci sono scelte giuste o sbagliate, momenti giusti o sbaglia……続きを見る

Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into thi……続きを見る

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city. When Walter O'Malley moved his B……続きを見る

During the 19th century, baseball was a game with few rules, many rowdy players and just one umpire. Dirty tricks were simply part of a winning strategy--spiking, body-blocking, cutting bases short ……続きを見る

During the Golden Age of baseball, as many as 59 minor leagues operated in a single season, and hundreds of G.I.s returning home from World War II competed in them for the big break that would land ……続きを見る

For the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans, there was a great deal of uncertainty going into the 1985 season. Only three years before, the Cards had won the World Series, but were predicted to finis……続きを見る

At the turn of the 20th century, track and field in the U.S. was the domain of the wealthy. While baseball and prize-fighting attracted athletes from the lower orders of society, athletic clubs gene……続きを見る

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more gen……続きを見る

For more than a hundred years, baseball has been woven into the American way of life. By the time they reach high school, children have learned about the struggles and triumphs of players like Jacki……続きを見る

The state of Israel is a home for a widely diverse population from many different ethnic, religious, cultural and social backgrounds; a new society with ancient roots, which is still coalescing and ……続きを見る

Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These a……続きを見る

Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and ……続きを見る

The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul D……続きを見る

From his first year in the majors, George Herman "Babe" Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attempt to cash in. Traded to the Yankees in 1920, he soon……続きを見る

Treinta y seis años después, milagro: la selección peruana regresa a un mundial de fútbol. "Me levanté de la cama y corrí por toda la casa como un pollo desquiciado. No paré hasta la cocina, donde a……続きを見る

The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over ti……続きを見る

A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, st……続きを見る

Inspired by Arthur Ashe’s bestselling memoir Days of Grace, a collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts of grace from across the sports world that have helped to bridge cultu……続きを見る

Walter Camp made the development of footballーindeed, its very creationーhis lifelong mission. From his days as a college athlete, Camp's love of the game and dedication to its future put it on the ……続きを見る

A collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ringーand the crazy carnival world outside it From neighborhood gyms an……続きを見る

Greece, in the years of the 60's. The country is slowly recovering from the wounds left by World War II. Transport as well as all other types of infrastructure are getting improved and the first sig……続きを見る

Ελλάδα, δεκαετία του '60. Η χώρα αρχίζει σιγά σιγά να ξεπερνάει τις πληγές που άφησε ο Β' Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος. Οι συγκοινωνίες και εν γένει οι υποδομές βελτιώνονται και αρχίζουν να εμφανίζονται σημάδ……続きを見る

Based on his own experience and others who were entrenched in the university athletic system, Rashad reveals how academic fraud continues to steal a “real” education from young black athletes. Rasha……続きを見る

Winner of the Norbert Elias Book Prize 2020 This is the first long-term analysis of the development of Japanese martial arts, connecting ancient martial traditions with the martial arts practised to……続きを見る

Figurational sociology offers an important set of conceptual and methodological tools for helping us to understand sport, leisure and health and their relationship to wider society. This book brings……続きを見る

This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertai……続きを見る