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Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing **“The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.” ーRich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters “As sports……続きを見る

'A beautiful book' Jennie Gow, BBC F1 commentator 'A true insider's guide to this most complex and thrilling of sports' Alex Jacques, Formula 1 commentator and broadcaster 24 RACES. 21 COUNTRIES. 20……続きを見る

Rome had been selected to host the 1908 Olympic Games, but the impact of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 on the Italian economy forced the Eternal City to withdraw. Rome would finally get a s……続きを見る

The VIII Olympiad, the eighth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins in the most extraordinary of cities at a most extraordinary time: Paris in the 1920s. Now the stuff of legend, it was a pla……続きを見る

In the immediate aftermath of World War I, Europe was devastated and exhausted from years of destruction and death. The VII Olympiad, the seventh volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with th……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

Around 1863, William “Candy” Cummings discovered he could make clamshells curve when thrownーa skill he transferred to baseball as a pitcher for the New York Excelsiors. In 1869, the Cincinnati Red ……続きを見る