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On the Origins of Sports: The Early History and Original Rules of EverybodyÂs Favorite Games

Product Description: New York Times BestsellerâFascinating.ââMenâs Health, Best Beach Reads for Sports FansOn the Origins of Sports is an illustrated book built around the original rules of 21 of the worldâs most popular sports, from football and soccer to wrestling and mixed martial arts...read more

By Neil Fine

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9781579656843, titled "On the Origins of Sports: The Early History and Original Rules of Everybody's Favorite Games" | Artisan, April 19, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: New York Times BestsellerâFascinating.

Most Amazing Sports Moments of All Time

By Doug Williams

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9781624039904, titled "The Most Amazing Sports Moments of All Time" | Sportszone, January 1, 2016, cover price $32.79

Most Dominant Dynasties of All Time

By Brian Trusdell

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9781624039911, titled "The Most Dominant Dynasties of All Time" | Sportszone, January 1, 2016, cover price $32.79

Fox Tossing: And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games

Product Description: In the spirit of Schottâs Miscellany and The Dangerous Book for Boys, a quirky collection of historyâs most bizarre sports and stories of mankindâs most daring and ridiculous recreational pursuitsâfrom baby boxing, to octopus wrestling, and ice tennis...read more

By Edward Brooke-hitching

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9781501115141 | Touchstone Books, November 10, 2015, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In the spirit of Schottâs Miscellany and The Dangerous Book for Boys, a quirky collection of historyâs most bizarre sports and stories of mankindâs most daring and ridiculous recreational pursuitsâfrom baby boxing, to octopus wrestling, and ice tennis.

Making Sport History: Disciplines, Identities and the Historiography of Sport

By Pascal Delheye (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415533614 | Routledge, May 19, 2014, cover price $145.00

Paperback:

9781138192898 | Routledge, October 12, 2015, cover price $53.95

The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer

By Christopher Rowley

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Hardcover:

9781442246188 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 10, 2015, cover price $36.00

The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity

By Sofie Remijsen

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Hardcover:

9781107050785 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 30, 2015, cover price $115.00

Representing Wilma Rudolph

Product Description: 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, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces...read more

By Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith

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9780815633846 | Syracuse Univ Pr, May 15, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee.

Sport And Spectacle in the Ancient World

This is a readable, up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the history of sport and spectacle in the ancient world from the Ancient Near East through Greek and Hellenistic times and into the Roman Empire. Covers athletics, combat sports, chariot racing, beast fights and gladiators. Traces the precursors of Greek and Roman sports and spectacles in the Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean. Investigates the origins, nature and meaning of sport, covering issues of violence, professionalism, class, gender and eroticism. Challenges the notion that Greek sport and Roman spectacle were polar opposites. Approaches sport and spectacle as overlapping and compatible features of civilized states and empires.

By Donald G. Kyle

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9780631229704 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, September 25, 2006), cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This is a readable, up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the history of sport and spectacle in the ancient world from the Ancient Near East through Greek and Hellenistic times and into the Roman Empire.

Paperback:

9781118613566 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, December 31, 2014), cover price $46.95

9780631229711 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, September 25, 2006), cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This is a readable, up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the history of sport and spectacle in the ancient world from the Ancient Near East through Greek and Hellenistic times and into the Roman Empire.

Crazyball: Sports Scandals, Superstitions, and Sick Plays

Product Description: Crazyball is a look at the wild, unusual, unimaginable, funny, and downright strange occurrences in sports. Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport take us from the worst teams in history to sportsâ craziest superstitions, wackiest pranks, and ultimate blown calls...read more

By Ken Rappoport

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9781589799127 | Taylor Pub, August 8, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Crazyball is a look at the wild, unusual, unimaginable, funny, and downright strange occurrences in sports.

Sports History

By Wray Vamplew (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415837477 | Routledge, April 2, 2014, cover price $1485.00

Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

Product Description: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside the lines and beyond the boundary, this book offers a thematic history of professional sport and the ingredients that magnetise millions around the globe...read more

By Rob Steen

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9781408152157 | Bloomsbury Sport, July 31, 2014, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.

Playing With Friends

By Rebecca Rissman

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Paperback:

9781432990275 | Not Applicable, January 1, 2014, cover price $5.99

Library:

9781432989934 | Heinemann/Raintree, January 1, 2014, cover price $21.99

Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame

Product Description: We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum in London, the Croke Park Museum in Dublin, and the Whyte Museum in Banff...read more

By Murray G. Phillips (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415883757 | Routledge, December 21, 2011, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon.

Paperback:

9780415719674 | Routledge, September 20, 2013, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon.

Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives

Product Description: SportÂ has beenÂ practised in theÂ Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the Olympic Games...read more

By Zinon Papakonstantinou (editor)

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9780415497152 | Routledge, November 3, 2009, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: SportÂ has beenÂ practised in theÂ Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC.

Paperback:

9780415641166 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 30, 2012), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: SportÂ has beenÂ practised in theÂ Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC.

Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds

By Paul Christesen

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9781107012691 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $99.99

The Curious, Captivating, Unusual History of Sports

By Lucia Raatma

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9781429675376 | Velocity, January 1, 2012, cover price $31.32

Routledge Companion to Sports History

Product Description: The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history...read more

By John Nauright (editor)

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Paperback:

9780415501941 | Routledge, December 9, 2011, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study.

Miscellaneous:

9780203885413 | Routledge, December 18, 2009, cover price $170.00

The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium

By David Potter

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Hardcover:

9780199842735 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 7, 2011, cover price $105.00

Paperback:

9780199842759 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 7, 2011, cover price $26.95

Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

By Stephen Wagg (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780230241251 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2012, cover price $110.00

Physical Education, Exercise, and Sport in a Changing Society

This volume includes a verse translation of Beowulf, Chaucer's General Prologue and five of the Canterbury Tales (including The Franklin's Tale) with guides to grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeen Middle English lyrics, ten popular ballads, Everyman, and The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play.

By William H. Freeman

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Hardcover:

9780763781576 | 7 edition (Jones & Bartlett Pub, January 1, 2011), cover price $143.95

Paperback:

9780195016246, titled "Medieval English Literature" | Oxford Univ Pr, April 5, 1973, cover price $34.95 | also contains Medieval English Literature | About this edition: This volume includes a verse translation of Beowulf, Chaucer's General Prologue and five of the Canterbury Tales (including The Franklin's Tale) with guides to grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeen Middle English lyrics, ten popular ballads, Everyman, and The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play.

Sports: From Ancient Olympics to the Super Bowl

Product Description: This book follows the development of sports through the centuries, from ancient times to today.

By Liz Miles

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9781432938130 | Not Applicable, September 1, 2010, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: This book follows the development of sports through the centuries, from ancient times to today.

Library:

9781432938055 | Heinemann/Raintree, September 1, 2010, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: This book follows the development of sports through the centuries, from ancient times to today.

Sports in America! 1970 to 1979

Product Description: The 1970s were a time of disco, U.S. relief at the end of the Vietnam conflict, and celebration of America's bicentennial. The passage of the groundbreaking Title IX act saw women's sports on the rise as more funding became federally mandated, Bruce Jenner became known as the "World's Greatest Athlete" with his remarkable gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, and Reggie Jackson batted in three consecutive home runs to clinch a Yankee win in the 1977 World Series...read more

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9781604134544, titled "Sports in America 1970-1979: A Decade-by-decade History" | 2 edition (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 2010), cover price $39.95 | also contains Sports in America 1970-1979: A Decade-by-decade History | About this edition: The 1970s were a time of disco, U.

Sports in America 1980-1989: A Decade-by-decade History

By Larry Keith (foreword by) and Michael Teitelbaum

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9781604134551 | 2 edition (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 2010), cover price $39.95

Sports in America 1960-1969: A Decade-by-decade History

Product Description: The 1960s, the Rock 'n' Roll Decade, saw the first televised Olympics, the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game, and the first Super Bowl. Students, researchers, and general readers alike will be enthralled by 1960 1969, Second Edition as they learn about these major milestones in sports through a vivid presentation and handy reference features...read more

By David Fischer and Larry Keith (foreword by)

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9781604134537 | 2 edition (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 2010), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The 1960s, the Rock 'n' Roll Decade, saw the first televised Olympics, the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game, and the first Super Bowl.

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