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Sports History: A Practical Guide, Palgrave, 2007. S.Battente, The idea of sport in western culture from antiquity to the contemporary era, Vernon press, 2020. Journals. online article from The Sports Historian 1993-2001; European Studies in Sport History; The International Journal of the History of Sport; Journal of Sport History; Sport ...
1895 - Clara Gregory Baer wrote the first book of rules for women's basketball. 1895 - The first public women's basketball game in the South was played at a men's only club, the Southern Athletic Club. 1896 – A six-day bicycle race for women, the first of its kind, began at New York City's Madison Square Garden on January 6. [15]
The history of sports in the United States reveals that American football, baseball, softball, and indoor soccer evolved from older British sports—rugby football, British baseball, rounders, and association football, respectively. Over time, these sports diverged significantly from their European origins, developing into distinctly American ...
A history and philosophy of sport and physical education: from ancient civilizations to the modern world (McGraw-Hill, 2014) Tsai, Chiung-Tzu Lucetta, and Lijun Zhou. "The history of sports and physical education in China." World leisure journal 59.4 (2017): 326-337. Wagner, Eric A. Sport in Asia and Africa: A Comparative Handbook (Greenwood ...
4. Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. By CHARLES LEERHSEN. Finally—a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb.
Juventus becomes the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major confederation competitions after defeating Liverpool 1–0 in that match, as well as the first in association football history to have won all possible international competitions [8] [9] [10] after defeating Argentinos Juniors 6–4 (2–2 a.e.t.) in ...
References to baseball date back to the 1700s when in England it was referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newberry, though he was actually referring to the game "rounders". In the early 1800s "baseball" and a game first mentioned in 1828 as the aforementioned "rounders" may have been the same or very ...
Title page of the 1803 reprinting of the 1633 edition of the Book of Sports. The Declaration of Sports (also known as the Book of Sports) was a declaration of James I of England issued just for Lancashire in 1617, nationally in 1618, and reissued by Charles I in 1633. It listed the sports and recreations that were permitted on Sundays and other ...