Related Books

Playing for Their Nation
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Steven R. Bullock
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed
National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Stefan Szymanski
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from it
Nation at Play
Language: en
Pages: 397
Authors: Ronojoy Sen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-27 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political d
The First 100 African Americans to Play in the National Football League
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Jerome Watkins
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-26 - Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2001, eighty-one years after the gathering of the founding members of the National Football League in Canton, Ohio, I walked
Nation: The Play
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Mark Ravenhill
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-31 - Publisher: Random House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin (Cora