Blacks at the Net

Sundiata Djata

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis. In ... Lees meer

Running with Pheidippides

Nick Tsiotos, Andy Dabilis

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• It is 1946. World War II is over. As the rest of Europe struggles to rebuild itself, Greece--which had bitterly resisted Nazi occupation--is ripped ap... Lees meer

Legends Never Die

Richard Ian Kimball

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can ... Lees meer

The War of the Wheels

Jeremy Withers

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells's works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances a... Lees meer

Diamond Mines

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• The essays comprising this text aim to shed new light on the interaction of labour, management, and government in contemporary major league baseball. Lees meer

Great Women in the Sport of Kings

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Although it has only been thirty years since the first female jockey rode onto the then male only turf of thoroughbred horse racing, they have since m... Lees meer

Blacks at the Net

Sundiata Djata

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis. In ... Lees meer

Legends Never Die

Richard Ian Kimball

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can ... Lees meer

Sports and the American Jew

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• This book debunks the conventional stereotype that Jews and sports are somehow anathema and clearly demonstrates that sports have long been a signific... Lees meer

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

Rita Liberti, Maureen M Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough... Lees meer

Anything for a T-Shirt

Ron Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Fred Lebow was a dreamer, the kind of dreamer who pursued his dream and made it a reality. And the world is still reaping its rewards." So begins this... Lees meer

Joining the Clubs

J Andrew Ross

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey L... Lees meer

Fit for America

Matthew Lindaman

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Fit for America is at once an intellectual biography of Major John L. Griffith, one of the preeminent intercollegiate athletics administrators of the ... Lees meer

Sports and the American Jew

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• This book debunks the conventional stereotype that Jews and sports are somehow anathema and clearly demonstrates that sports have long been a signific... Lees meer

Muscle and Manliness

Axel Bundgaard

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Axel Bundgaard has produced a meaningful work on the important but little-told history of interschool athletics, exploring the introduction and nature... Lees meer

Abel Kiviat, National Champion

Alan S Katchen

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Abel Kiviat (1892-1991) was one of track and field's legendary personalities, a world record-holder and Olympic medalist in the metric mile. A teenage... Lees meer

Invisible Seasons

Kelly Belanger

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution's Title IX coordinator, and a close circ... Lees meer

Tarnished Rings

Stephen Wenn, Robert Barney, Scott Martyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• In late 1998 and the early months of 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was an organization in crisis. Revelations of a slush fund employ... Lees meer

The 1929 Bunion Derby

Charles B Kastner

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the "B... Lees meer

The New Cathedrals

Robert C Trumpbour

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Stadium construction has altered the physical landscape of many major metropolitan areas throughout North America and has had a profound psychological... Lees meer

Diamond Mines

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• The essays comprising this text aim to shed new light on the interaction of labour, management and government in contemporary major league baseball. Lees meer

Catching Dreams

Frazier Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• In a rare memoir about the Negro Leagues and its celebrated players, Frazier "Slow" Robinson offers an inspiring and often entertaining view of the bl... Lees meer

The American Marathon

Pamela Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Boston established a footrace but New York City created a marathon culture that annually draws tens of thousands of runners to each of the major Ameri... Lees meer

Dolph Schayes and the Rise of Professional Basketball

Dolph Grundman

• Hardcover | Engels | Sports and Entertainment
• Grundman presents readers with a portrait, the first of its kind, of Dolph Schayes - the star of the Syracuse Nationals basketball team during the 195... Lees meer