Shergar, the champion racehorse disappeared into an ominous Irish fog one February night in 1983 and was never seen again.
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The scenario was something out of a Hollywood blockbuster: The gloomy dus……続きを見る
Baseball began as a schoolyard game, brought to America by the colonists. It evolved rapidly over the second half of the nineteenth century, with innovations and rule changes continuing throughout t……続きを見る
El fútbol argentino se desarrolló alrededor de dos ejes que se analizan en este libro: por un lado, la lucha entre los clubes poderosos y los más humildes para imponer sus necesidades; por otro, el ……続きを見る
Este libro propone una nueva categoría de análisis para el estudio de la educación física y los deportes en México, la "cultura física" entendida como el conjunto de ideas, prácticas y creencias que……続きを見る
2020 SABR Baseball Research Award
Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America’s pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictat……続きを見る
“An entertaining read that enthusiasts will enjoy.”ーLibrary Journal
Revered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The firs……続きを見る
2020 SABR Baseball Research Award
In the mid-nineteenth century, two industries arrived on the American scene. One was strictly a business, yet it helped create, define, and disseminate American cul……続きを見る
Americans love to win. But when it comes to soccer, the world’s most popular sport, the US women’s team has delivered three World Cup victories in as many decades, while the men have not advanced pa……続きを見る
著者：Mr Daniel Gray
出版社： Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日： 2013年08月01日
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England ……続きを見る
There's a battle being fought. It's raging on the sports fields, in the newsrooms and behind the scenes at every major broadcaster. Women in sport are fighting for equality with more vigour than eve……続きを見る
Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six dist……続きを見る
La historia del Maestranza Foot-Ball Club, es una historia también de Iquique. De esa ciudad que halla en el ciclo salitrero su acta de fundación. Nacido al amparo del Ferrocarril Salitrero, esta in……続きを見る
With traditions, records, and lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Jazz fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, behi……続きを見る
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball
Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely……続きを見る
Returning from a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade, the plane carrying Manchester United's 'Busby Babes' stopped at Munich airport to refuel. On its third attempt to take-off in atrocious……続きを見る
著者：Joe Kennedy
出版社： Watkins Media
発売日： 2016年08月16日
Is soccer inherently political? What does soccer actually mean today? Games Without Frontiers seeks force us to think about what we mean when we say 'soccer'. Along the way, it skewers media cliches……続きを見る
著者：Dave Campbell
出版社： Texas A&M University Press
発売日： 2019年02月14日
A Texas sports legend, Dave Campbell started his annual fall football preview magazine, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, in 1960. Widely referred to as “the bible” by coaches, fans, and sportswriters……続きを見る
From its winners to its sinners, two bestselling sportswriters chronicle a dizzying trip through more than a century of baseball lore and legend.
Some of the stories are celebratedーfrom Ruth's call……続きを見る
Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the ……続きを見る
著者：Hans Bonde
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2013年10月18日
Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through I.P. Muller and Niels Bukh and the Danish Gymnastics revolution with its emphasis on male aesthetics and hygiene in the ……続きを見る
This book explores, analyses, and explains divergent ideologies and practices of gymnastics in selected European nations. It reconstructs the ex- and import processes from Europe to America and dete……続きを見る
Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico’s post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at ease with itself played proud host to a global celeb……続きを見る
Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water……続きを見る
More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee mi……続きを見る
Tennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world’s most significant sports, expressing cr……続きを見る
著者：Doug Wilson
出版社： Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日： 2019年02月15日
When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teen……続きを見る
著者：J. A. Mangan
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2013年10月08日
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and l……続きを見る
Long before baseball became America’s national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern Am……続きを見る
