When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even th

Stories of hunting big game in the West and notes about animals pursued and observed.

In this cogent and well-researched book, Harold Schechter argues that, unlike the popular conception of the media inciting violence through displaying it, witho

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