Sports in WWI

Book cover of War Football by Chris Serb, showcasing a sepia-toned photo of military teams in action. Subheading reads, "World War I and the Birth of the NFL.

$60.00

War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL

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A vintage photo captures a baseball game, with a batter poised to swing. Below, the text declares: Play Ball! Baseball with Doughboys during the Great War, listing the authors' names.

$27.00

Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War

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Cover of War Fever by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, featuring a historical baseball game amidst the Spanish flu era.

$19.50

War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War

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Sepia-toned photo of World War I soldiers wearing gas masks and playing baseball. Cover of The Gas and Flame Men by Jim Leeke.

$33.00

The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I

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$34.00

From the Dugouts to the Trenches

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Book cover featuring a black-and-white photo of Grover Cleveland Alexander above and soldiers below. Title: The Best Team Over There by Jim Leeke. Subtitle references the profound impact on baseball history.

$30.00

The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War

Book cover of A Bigger Field Awaits Us by Andrew Beaujon, featuring black and white photos of soldiers and red and blue text on a light background.

$27.00

A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Football Team That Fought the Great War

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The book cover of War Game by Michael Foreman showcases two figures playing soccer against a teal background accompanied by a quote from the Times Literary Supplement printed beneath.

$15.50

War Game: The classic illustrated children’s book about the World War One football match

The cover for When it Mattered Most shows a hocky player dressed in a WWI era vintage hockey uniform, including hockey skates and holding a hockey stick. The background image is of a WWI era airplane.

$25.50

When It Mattered Most: The Forgotten Story of America's First Stanley Cup Champions, and the War to End All Wars

$24.00

Riding into Battle: Canadian Cyclists in the Great War

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Cover of Football's Great War by Alexander Jackson, featuring a historical photo of a football team with soldiers and players overlaid with red and gray text at the top.

$50.00

Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914–1918

Book cover of Final Wicket by Nigel McCrery, showcasing photos of cricketers above and below the blue title text.

$35.00

Final Wicket: Test & First-Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War

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The cover shows a blue background with a silhouette of a WWI soldier standing in front of a barbed wire trench fence holding a vintage football.

$28.00

The Football Battalions: The Elite Footballers Who Fought in the Great War

The cover for Work, Fight, or Play Ball shows a black and white photograph of men in vintage baseball uniforms with smoke stacks in the background.

$25.50

Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I

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The cover of Pride Of The Hearts. A silhouette of a soldier is standing in the forefront while a group of individuals are posed in the background while smoke fills the sky overhead.

$14.00

Pride of the Hearts: The untold story of the men and women who made the Great War heroes of Heart of Midlothian

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