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This vintage book contains a fantastic guide to fishing, focusing on where, how, and what to fish for. Written with the beginner in mind, it offers expert tips and useful instructions written in cle……続きを見る

“In Fishing Country” is a vintage book on fishing in Canada, particularly in Quebec and Montreal. Rather than being a typical handbook or guide, this volume is more of an informal discourse on the p……続きを見る

JUAN MANUEL HERBELLA eligió investigar y contar al futbolista en su encrucijada más delicada: el momento exacto en que su carrera amenaza con derrumbarse. Son historias de dolor, a veces de desolaci……続きを見る

Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S. Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. ……続きを見る

Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history ……続きを見る

Having already penned Getting in the Game, his inside scoop on the mayhem within baseball's winter meetings, Josh Lewin once again gives baseball fans a window into the big leagues. By interviewing ……続きを見る

In Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever, journalist Dan Good seeks to make sense of MLB MVP Ken Caminiti’s fascinating, troubled life. “As……続きを見る

Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression. Or was it? Remarkably, during the economic upheaval……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter Award Though his pitching career lasted only a few seasons, Howard El……続きを見る

Idræt har igennem århundreder været en stor del af dansk kultur, og som tiden er gået, er idrætten blevet arrangeret i forskellige sportsgrene, som har vundet større og større popularitet. "Illustre……続きを見る

Idræt har igennem århundreder været en stor del af dansk kultur, og som tiden er gået, er idrætten blevet arrangeret i forskellige sportsgrene, som har vundet større og større popularitet. "Illustre……続きを見る

In the heart of the Bluegrass, basketball is king of collegiate athletics. But it wasn't always so. Before Big Blue chronicles the early history of organized sports at the University of Kentucky, fr……続きを見る

They said it couldn't be done. Port Adelaide's rivals called it a "sideshow". Yet within five years, Port Adelaide had attracted major sponsors from China, played three in-season AFL matches in Shan……続きを見る

Discover the untold stories of baseball's unsung heroes, the New York Yankees who played just one game. The Least Among Them unveils the captivating histories of 29 players who briefly donned the pi……続きを見る

The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was suc……続きを見る

This is the first book in English that adopts a critical socio-historical perspective to examine the important themes and challenges of Asian indigenous culture and sport. Written by leading sport h……続きを見る

A young German immigrant, Barney Dreyfuss was an American success story in business and in baseball. He fell in love with the game after settling in Paducah, Kentucky, where he discovered he had a k……続きを見る

A sporting nation is only limited by its imagination. Every time this story is told it changes; something is always added, embellished or dropped from the run-on side. For more than thirty years, H.……続きを見る

Il ’68 apre una stagione di conflitti che si riverberano anche nell’universo dello sport, facendo emergere le contraddizioni inscritte in uno dei più importanti fenomeni di massa e mettendo in discu……続きを見る

Century of Northwest wilderness skiing stories by noted expert 150 black-and-white and color photographs Celebrates the friluftsliv, or open-air living spirit, of backcountry skiing In Written in ……続きを見る

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film. Through close textual analysis, production and reception histories a……続きを見る

A grande história dos mundiais se destaca entre a bibliografia sobre as Copas do Mundo não só pela extensa pesquisa, de mais de 20 anos, nas mais variadas fontes, dentro e fora do Brasil, mas por se……続きを見る

A grande história dos mundiais se destaca entre a bibliografia sobre as Copas do Mundo não só pela extensa pesquisa, de mais de 20 anos, nas mais variadas fontes, dentro e fora do Brasil, mas por se……続きを見る

A grande história dos mundiais se destaca entre a bibliografia sobre as Copas do Mundo não só pela extensa pesquisa, de mais de 20 anos, nas mais variadas fontes, dentro e fora do Brasil, mas por se……続きを見る

A grande história dos mundiais se destaca entre a bibliografia sobre as Copas do Mundo não só pela extensa pesquisa, de mais de 20 anos, nas mais variadas fontes, dentro e fora do Brasil, mas por se……続きを見る

A grande história dos mundiais se destaca entre a bibliografia sobre as Copas do Mundo não só pela extensa pesquisa, de mais de 20 anos, nas mais variadas fontes, dentro e fora do Brasil, mas por se……続きを見る

A grande história dos mundiais se destaca entre a bibliografia sobre as Copas do Mundo não só pela extensa pesquisa, de mais de 20 anos, nas mais variadas fontes, dentro e fora do Brasil, mas por se……続きを見る

His Name is McNamara is the riveting story of the life and career of football manager and former player Jackie McNamara. Jackie played for a series of clubs but is best known for the trophy-laden de……続きを見る

This comprehensive overview of karate connects the dots between its philosophical and spiritual foundations with its original purpose: to kill an attacker swiftlyーand brutally. Prior to 1900, karat……続きを見る

Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades. This Handbook brings together the latest research on Greek and Roman manifestatio……続きを見る