A cultural journey through golf: from legendary origins and iconic courses to hidden gems, travel, etiquette, and the traditions that shape the game.

Out of the Ballpark strips away the mythology that has accumulated around baseball in the United States to better appreciate the different sites of the sport's development and the various sources of its appeal. It explores baseball's function as a modern entertainment spectacle and moves across time and space to examine its history since the nineteenth century and beyond US borders.

The first-ever biography of Black golfer Ted Rhodes, Out of the Rough details his rise from an impoverished childhood to shattering records in the all-Black United Golfers Association and becoming the first African American golfer to play in the U.S. Open and make the cut in a PGA tournament, blazing the trail for future greats such as Tiger Woods.

Outdoor Knots delivers relevant and expertly curated content in a convenient, travel-ready package. With step-by-step instructions on tying the most used and useful knots, this is a book to keep with your gear, in your car, or on your person at all times.

The book explores the evolution and multifaceted impact of this distinctive event. It constitutes essential reading for scholars, students, NGO executives, and members of the public interested in event management, sports studies, and Hong Kong culture.

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions’ pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from the history and development of the Paralympic movement to the Games’ economic and social impact.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from the history and development of the Paralympic movement to the Games’ economic and social impact.