This history traces the origins of the multi-million-pound international spectator sport industry back to the beginnings of the British empire and discovers how soccer, cricket, rugby, boxing and other games were carried overseas by the British. It proves that such apparently all-American pursuits such as baseball and ice hockey were in fact British in their origin.
- ISBN10 1851588426
- ISBN13 9781851588428
- Publish Date 7 November 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 December 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Mainstream Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English