Pitch Publishing: 248 books
Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets
Englands Troubled Reign as Test Match Kings during the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
When Andrew Strauss's team seized the world title in the summer of 2011 they finally recovered what had been lost at the Adelaide Oval in 1959. In 1953 England became the 'unofficial world champions'. Len Hutton's victory at the Oval in that coronation year heralded an apparently golden age in England's...
by Ivan Ponting
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Whenever a famous footballer dies, there is an inevitable degree of public grief. But an obituary should never be a leaden announcement of a death. Rather it should be a celebration of a life which, in some way, has touched countless other people down the years, inspiring heartfelt emotion and endless...
by Paul Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Rangers Cult Heroes tells the story of the club through the careers of its 20 greatest icons - the men who made the blue half of Glasgows pulses race. During Paul Smiths journey through a pantheon of Rangers greats, he discovers that there is much more to being a Gers Cult Hero. Each players career is...
Max Baer
Clown Prince of Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
They called Max Baer the 'Clown Prince of Boxing', but trainer Ray Arcel remembered a night in 1933 when he worked Baer's corner in what was probably Max's greatest triumph, the night he smashed Max Schmeling to defeat in ten brutal rounds. That was no clown. A year later, Baer was heavyweight champion...
No Helmets Required
The Remarkable Story of the American All Stars
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Sixty years on from 1950s Los Angeles, No Helmets Required tells the story of 20 young American footballers convinced by entrepreneur Mike Dimitro to fly off around the world playing rugby league - a game they'd never even heard of. Miraculously, the American All Stars competed with the best Australia,...
Cardiff City: Rebranded
Bluebirds and Red Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This is the story of what happens when a football club changes overnight and fans are left to deal with the fallout. It is the real story of what happened from the beginning to the end of an unwanted rebrand of a proud football club. For some, it was tolerable, for most a step too far. Cardiff City:...
Outcasts!
The Lands That FIFA Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Outcasts! The Lands That FIFA Forgot examines the tarnished reputation of world football's governing body, and the manner in which they exclude certain 'nations' from their organisation. For two years, Steve Menary traced the incredible journeys of the teams that FIFA refuse to recognise, usually for...
by Dave Jones; Andrew Warshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Dave Jones is one of the most respected managers in football, who took Cardiff to the FA Cup Final and Wolves to the Premier League. But few fans could possibly identify with the anguish and turmoil that blighted his life. A family man and loving father of four children, Daves world was turned upside...
by Paul Donnelley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A daily Gunners diary, Arsenal On This Day reveals all the important events in the club's history beginning with the first match in 1886. Learn which Arsenal player won an Olympic Gold Medal; the legend who debuted on the day George Graham was born; the day which links Bertie Mee and Arsene Wenger, and...
Everton FC On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
From great triumphs to great escapes Everton FC On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the club's history. A club which was a founder member of both the Football League and the Premier League; which has spent more seasons in England's top flight than any other; and which...
Rangers FC On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Rangers On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the history of the Ibrox Park club.Where were you when Rangers clinched nine in a row, won the European Cup Winners' Cup or when Ally McCoist scored his first goal in a blue jersey? Can you recall the date of the Uefa Cup...
New York Fight Nights
A Century of Iconic Big Apple Bouts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
No city in the world is more associated with boxing than New York. So take a ringside seat on the city's greatest ever fight nights. Join the roaring crowds at iconic venues including Madison Square Garden, the Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and the Long Island Bowl - in the company of boxing historian...
by Tim Quelch
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Tim Quelch has spent 50 years following various struggling football teams. Some experienced only temporary hardships, such as Chelsea and Manchester City. Some became more longstanding victims of changing economics, such as Burnley and Preston. Some punched briefly, yet triumphantly, well above their...
The Mad and the Bad
Boxing Tales of Murder, Madness and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From the present day back to the bareknuckle era and the 18th-century prize ring, boxing has always had its wacky warriors and masters of menace. All these larger-than-life characters had one thing in common - talent in abundance. Some used it, others wasted it. Â Many big-draw fighters were born...