Author : David Blevins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0810861305
Provides a comprehensive listing, including biographical information and statistics, of each athlete inducted into one of the major sports halls of fame.
Author : Dave Blevins
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1303 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1461673704
In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame was established to honor the legends of the sport. The first inductees were some of the greatest names of the dugout, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Less than ten years later, in 1945, the Hockey Hall of Fame inducted its first members. The Soccer Hall of Fame was established in 1950, followed by the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959, and the Football Hall of Fame in 1963. In all, more than 1,400 inductees—players, teams, and behind the scenes personnel—have been enshrined in these five halls of fame. The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia is a comprehensive listing of each inductee elected into one or more of these major sports halls of fame. From Hank Aaron to Fred Zollner, this book contains biographical information, sport and position(s) played, and career statistics (when applicable) of each of the more than 1,400 honorees. The book also includes specific appendixes for each shrine, in which inductees are listed alphabetically and by year of induction. Also included are appendixes briefly describing the history of each hall of fame.
Author : Chris Cowlin
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1908548975
Are you a loyal supporter of Manchester City Football Club? Never missed a match? Do you know all there is to know about your favourite football team? Then the time has come to test your memory of the events that have shaped City with this exciting new quiz book containing 250 thought-provoking questions. The Man City Quiz Book contains questions about all aspects of the club including the players, their nationalities and caps for their country, managers, top goalscorers, League ositions and club records as well as all those memorable moments that have gone to make up City's long and exciting history. So, whether you are City's number one fan or simply want to brush up on your knowledge of the team, you are certain to find out something new about Manchester City Football Club in this book. Packed with fascinating facts, this tribute to Man City is a must-have for all City fans and is certain to provide all round entertainment for football enthusiasts from five to 95.
Author : Gary James
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Soccer players
ISBN : 9780600612827
Manchester City Football Club has 100,000 members and 35,000 season ticket holders!
Author : Don Price
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524632562
Like most kids back in the day, Don dreamt of being a professional footballer and scoring the winning goal at Wembley. Unfortunately for Don, he was not much good at football. He grew up in Manchester in the fifties and sixties, and even joining the Royal Navy in the late sixties did not dampen his passion or enthusiasm for the game. Don founded one of the largest football supporters branches in the country and was chairman of it for ten years. This is a gripping account and a humorous look back at his time in the Royal Navy and the supporters branch meetings including sportsmens dinners, and charity events he organised with some of the top names in British football. Celebrity guests included Kevin Keegan, Nick Leeson, and Francis Lee. He also recounts some of the hilarious away trips he organized. It is a real life supporters story that will appeal to all football fans.
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
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Author : James Montague
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1472923138
A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game? While almost cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership – a rare Achilles heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits journalists and outsiders. In the Billionaires Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone ever dared, to tell this story for the first time. He criss-crosses the world – from Dhaka to Doha, from China to Crewe, from St Louis to London, from Bangkok to Belgium – to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries. The Billionaires Club is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the globe, and part travel book as he follows the ever-shifting trail around the globe in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football. At its heart The Billionaires Club is a football book, about some of the biggest clubs in the world. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us, the global economy, where the world is headed and how football has become an essential cog in this machine. The book discusses the dawn European Super League, and the repercussions for the future of the game.
Author : Kevin Snelgrove
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1911476645
Are you a fan of Frome Town Football Club? Never missed a match? Have you picked up lots of little-known facts about The Robins along the way? Then the time has come to find out how much you know about your favourite team with The Official Frome Town Football Club Quiz Book Including memoirs of The Hill. The 600 questions contained within these pages, some easy, some more challenging, have been put together to test your memory of the people and places that have shaped the Club’s long and interesting history. With sections about all aspects of the game including players, managers, opponents, final scores, Club honours and Club records, this book is certain to have you disputing points with your friends and family to find out who really knows the most about The Robins. A fitting tribute to Frome Town Football Club, this book is packed with information and is as educated as it is entertaining. A must have for all dedicated Frome Town fans.
Author : David Conn
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1623655773
Richer Than God is an authoritative, emotional, provocative account of Manchester City's takeover by Sheikh Mansour, culminating in their remarkable last minute Premier League title victory in May 2012. By placing the club's extraordinary current rise in the wider context of its patchy modern history, this is also the story of English football's transformation--from the battlegrounds of the 1980s to today's moneyed, seated, global entertainment. Conn is led to question the very nature of football clubs and being a supporter, the underlying values and running of what used to be called "the people's game." A labor of love, this powerfully told account of Manchester City's fall and rise, based on meticulous research over many years, and exclusive access and interviews with key figures, is written in the gripping, revelatory style Conn has made his trademark.
Author : John Cairney
Publisher : Random House
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780570597
Those who have been football supporters all their lives can never forget the first match they ever saw, although they might not recall the result. This is because it is the players that stay in the memory and the magic moments they provided for millions of spectators in their time.Every generation throws up its own football field magicians and The Scottish Football Hall of Fame encapsulates the Saturday afternoon spell cast by fine footballers for ordinary working men who lived to cheer on their heroes every week. Fervour was passed down from father to son, and in this way the future of the clubs as well as the fame of a few golden greats was guaranteed. Players like R.S.McColl (Queen's Park), Bobby Walker (Hearts), Alan Morton (Rangers), Denis Law (Manchester United) and Kenny Dalglish (Celtic) are in this pantheon, and they span the arc of Scottish football from its earliest days till modern times. These, and more than a hundred like them, are the men you will read about in these pages. Men who were once household names are captured here in their sporting immortality and introduced to generations of football enthusiasts who never saw them play. The Scottish Football Hall of Fame gives a unique overview of the beautiful game, where by means of illuminating narrative and anecdote, legend can unite with historical fact to honour not only the wearers of the famous dark blue shirt but every foot-soldier in the Tartan Army who has ever shouted 'Scotland! Scotland!' from the terraces.
