History of Sports

The Football Man: People & Passions in Soccer

By Arthur Hopcraft, Michael Parkinson

Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

By Rachel Ignotofsky

The England Managers: The Impossible Job

By Brian Scovell

Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine: The Curious Quest that Solved Golf

By Scott Gummer

Fair Game: Myth and Reality in Sport

By Eric Midwinter

The Perfect Day: 40 Years of "Surfer Magazine"

By Sam George

Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

By Caesar, Ed

Sports Psychology in Action

By Richard J. Butler

Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing

By Roland Huntford

What is a Googly?: The mysteries of cricket explained

By Eastaway, Rob

Leap of Faith: The New Autobiography

By Frankie Dettori

Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023

By Stefan Szymanski, Tim Wigmore

Cricketing Allsorts: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (and The Downright Weird)

By Jo Harman

GREAT SPORTING ECCENTRICS

Rugby's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of rugby

By Griffiths, John

Games People Played: A Global History of Sport

By Wray Vamplew

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By Daniel James Brown

Squash: A History of the Game

By James Zug, George Plimpton

The Sunday Times Sporting Century: 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History

By Alan English

Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet

By Simon Lister

Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game

By Budd Schulberg

Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society in Britain since 1945

By Martin Polley

The Grudge: Two Nations, One Match, No Holds Barred

By Tom English

Soccernomics (2022 World Cup Edition): Why European Men and American Women Win and Billionaire Owners Are Destined to Lose

By Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

Golf Between Two Wars

By bernard darwin, Herbert Wind, Ben Crenshaw

Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey

By Jack Cavanaugh

Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches

By Simon Hughes

Glove Story: The Number 1 book for every goalkeeper, past and present.

African Soccerscapes: How A Continent Changed the World's Game

By Peter Alegi

On Boxing PB

By Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)