Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781875268399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The football codes
Author: How Football Began
Author: Tony CollinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351709674
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.
The Football Code
Author: James TippettPublisher: Self-Publisher
ISBN: 9781527211940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Football Code outlines an innovative, ground-breaking philosophy that will change the way you watch the beautiful game. In a sport which is so largely dictated by randomness, how can we accurately assess the performance of teams, players and managers? How can we tell who is good and who is simply lucky? The Football Code teaches how a more scientific approach can eradicate the damaging effects of chance, leaving a clearer image of what is actually happening on the field of play. Only then can managers sign better players. Only then can pundits offer better judgements. Only then can fans compile better fantasy football teams. This book addresses the intrinsic errors and inefficiencies which plague the sport, whilst at the same time revealing the top secret methods that professional gambling syndicates use to predict future outcomes. Above all, it discloses the top secret, data-driven system that one football mastermind has used to make millions in the betting markets, and that has allowed the Championship team he owns to punch spectacularly above its financial weight. Football has finally found it's answer to baseball's 'Moneyball'. "Any fan who doesn't read this book will be left behind." - William Lund. "Unveils a revolutionary approach to the transfer market. Truly exceptional." - FootballNow. "A masterclass. The sport of football will never be the same again" - Levi Janssen.
Football Codes
Author: Robert GottPublisher:
ISBN: 9781420293920
Category : Australian football
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 'Football codes' discover what football means to our communities - from backyard football to games in our largest stadiums, from playing the game at school to watching it on TV, from making fan banners to wearing our team colours. And, along the way, learn about the history, players, supporters and professional leagues of our most popular football codes.
The Baseball Codes
Author: Jason TurbowPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030727862X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.
The Two Codes of Football ... Revised to Date
Author: CodesPUDDINGS, BULLIES AND SQUASHES
Author: MALCOLM. TOZERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781838538989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Code Wars - The Battle for Fans, Dollars and Survival
Author: Hunter FujakPublisher:
ISBN: 9781925914153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Using data and knowledge developed over the past decade, along with interviews of stakeholders, a consumer-friendly version around the issues associated with the 'code wars' in Australian sport. This includes a review of the past around how football preferences have been shaped, the current landscape (with some critical analysis of the governance of the organisations), and prognosticating about the future Australian sport landscape.
Author: CODES.
Author: Codes