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Historical Dictionary of Basketball
Av John Grasso
Inbunden, 2010
1652 kr
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In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to which his simple game would …
Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming
Av John Lohn
Inbunden, 2010
1603 kr
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Swimming has been an Olympic sport since the inception of the Games, with the 100, 400, and 1500 freestyles being the original events along with the 100 freestyle for sailors. While the spirit of the sport remains the same, the technology and the competitive formats have advanced tremendously …
Historical Dictionary of Track and Field
Inbunden, 2012
1603 kr
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While the earliest evidence of organized running can be traced back to Egypt in 3800 BCE, the modern sport of track and field evolved from rural games and church and folk festivals, and rules were drawn up in the final quarter of the 19th century in those advanced societies where enough people had …
Historical Dictionary of Boxing
Av John Grasso
Inbunden, 2013
2399 kr
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Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to …
Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating
E-bok, 2011
1616 kr
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Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance between athleticism and artistry, and the …
Historical Dictionary of Soccer
Av Tom Dunmore
Inbunden, 2011
1353 kr
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Soccer is the world's most popular sport and one of the globe's best known cultural practices. The pinnacle of the sport worldwide is the FIFA World Cup, a competition held every four years, which crowns one nation as the world champion in front of huge global television audiences: over half of the …
Historical Dictionary of Golf
Inbunden, 2011
1893 kr
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Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf …
Historical Dictionary of Cycling
Av Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans
E-bok, 2011
1806 kr
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The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolved into racing on special tracks called …
Historical Dictionary of Soccer
Av Tom Dunmore
E-bok, 2011
674 kr
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Soccer is the world''s most popular sport and one of the globe''s best known cultural practices. The pinnacle of the sport worldwide is the FIFA World Cup, a competition held every four years, which crowns one nation as the world champion in front of huge global television audiences: over half of …
Historical Dictionary of Golf
E-bok, 2011
2151 kr
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Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf …
Historical Dictionary of Tennis
Av John Grasso
E-bok, 2011
1415 kr
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The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel …
Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming
Av John Lohn
E-bok, 2010
1690 kr
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Swimming has been an Olympic sport since the inception of the Games, with the 100, 400, and 1500 freestyles being the original events along with the 100 freestyle for sailors. While the spirit of the sport remains the same, the technology and the competitive formats have advanced tremendously …
Historical Dictionary of Basketball
Av John Grasso
E-bok, 2010
695 kr
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In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James Naismith, basketball''s inventor, to have envisioned the extent to which his simple game would …
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Av Lyle Spatz
Inbunden, 2012
2250 kr
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Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand …
Historical Dictionary of Football
Av John Grasso
Inbunden, 2013
2399 kr
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Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules …
Historical Dictionary of Football
Av John Grasso
E-bok, 2013
674 kr
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Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules …
Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey
Inbunden, 2012
2250 kr
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The earliest forms of ice hockey developed over the centuries in numerous cold weather countries. In the 17th century, a game similar to hockey was played in Holland known as kolven. But the modern sport of ice hockey arose from the efforts of college students and British soldiers in eastern Canada …
Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey
E-bok, 2012
674 kr
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The earliest forms of ice hockey developed over the centuries in numerous cold weather countries. In the 17th century, a game similar to hockey was played in Holland known as kolven. But the modern sport of ice hockey arose from the efforts of college students and British soldiers in eastern Canada …
Historical Dictionary of Boxing
Av John Grasso
E-bok, 2013
2568 kr
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Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to …
Historical Dictionary of Wrestling
Av John Grasso
Inbunden, 2014
2399 kr
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Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings in France that depict memorable matches, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using most of the holds known to the …
Historical Dictionary of Wrestling
Av John Grasso
E-bok, 2014
2568 kr
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Wrestling as a legitimate contest is one of the oldest, if not the oldest form of sport. There are cave drawings in France that depict memorable matches, which are over 15,000 years old. Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestling bouts where wrestlers are using most of the holds known to the …
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Av Lyle Spatz
E-bok, 2012
675 kr
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Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand …
Historical Dictionary of Skiing
E-bok, 2011
1680 kr
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Skiing is one of the oldest modes of transportation known, predating the wheel with dated artifacts to prove its pedigree. Skiing for sport, however, did not become common until about 150 years ago. The first Winter Olympic Games, held in Chamonix, France in 1924, were the first to introduce skiing …
Historical Dictionary of Track and Field
E-bok, 2012
1820 kr
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While the earliest evidence of organized running can be traced back to Egypt in 3800 BCE, the modern sport of track and field evolved from rural games and church and folk festivals, and rules were drawn up in the final quarter of the 19th century in those advanced societies where enough people had …
Historical Dictionary of Bowling
Av John Grasso, Eric R. Hartman
Inbunden, 2014
2250 kr
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Loggats, kayles, quilles, skittles, half-bowl and ninepins were all early forms of games in which the goal was to knock down small standing objects from a distance by rolling or throwing another object at them. Archaeologists have found items from Egypt around 5200 B.C. that included small stone …
Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
Av John Grasso, Bill Mallon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3382 kr
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The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins …
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Av Lyle Spatz
Häftad, 2015
631 kr
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Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand …
Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey
Häftad, 2015
616 kr
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The earliest forms of ice hockey developed over the centuries in numerous cold weather countries. In the 17th century, a game similar to hockey was played in Holland known as kolven. But the modern sport of ice hockey arose from the efforts of college students and British soldiers in eastern Canada …
Historical Dictionary of Basketball
Av John Grasso
Häftad, 2015
616 kr
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In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James Naismith, basketball's inventor, to have envisioned the extent to which his simple game would …
Historical Dictionary of Soccer
Av Tom Dunmore
Häftad, 2015
616 kr
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Soccer is the world's most popular sport and one of the globe's best known cultural practices. The pinnacle of the sport worldwide is the FIFA World Cup, a competition held every four years, which crowns one nation as the world champion in front of huge global television audiences: over half of the …
