Sports History

Best-selling surf writer Tim Baker tells this implausible story in an irresistible series of ripping yarns, offering rich life lessons, a maverick business primer and a wild ride of adventure, good times and outlandish ambitions spectacularly realised....  

Australia enjoys a rich sporting heritage. Our small population has yielded a disproportionate number of champions....

Cricket 2.0 tells the story of how an old, traditional game was transformed by Twenty20 and how this format moved from being a gimmick to the face of modern cricket....

The Secret of Golf is Joe Posnanski's intimate account of the most remarkable rivalry and (eventual) friendship in modern golf....

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing....

The 1989 Ironman World Championship was the greatest race ever in endurance sports....

The book that inspired the ESPN documentary 151: The Greatest Streak is now revised and updated....

This Is Your Brain on Sports is the audiobook for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them....

The gripping story of the greatest race in cycling history, when Greg LeMond cinched victory by a mere eight seconds....

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200....

The lights are coming down. Frank, Dean, and Sammy are about to take the stage. This is the moment we remember, when Las Vegas became classic. And it was at the Sands....

An entertaining collection of insider yarns by an Aussie Test cricket legend....

The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest....

The world's fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago....

When Coyote and its skipper, Mike Plant, went missing mid-Atlantic in November 1992, the sailing world held its breath....

The first and only in-depth look at the indie wrestling revolution....

By creating WrestleMania, jumping into the pay-per-view field, and expanding across North America, Vince McMahon changed professional wrestling forever....

A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....

Let Stephen Curry, Charles Barkley, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller, and more tell you what it was like to take the floor against one of the greatest of all time. With a foreword by Jerry West and a new tribute from the author about Kobe’s tragic death....

In the tradition of Seabiscuit, critically acclaimed author Neal Bascomb reaches back to the golden age of sport and crafts an utterly captivating narrative....

The incredible story of the first African-American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer....

1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder 11 Israeli athletes....

At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....

When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war broke out between crime families for control of a now valuable strip of land....

Downloaded over 10 million times a year, The Football Ramble podcast has established itself as the essential independent voice of football punditry....

Obscure documents, Korean-language books, and in-depth interviews with tae kwon do pioneers tell the tale of the origin of the most popular martial art....

Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. Committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders....