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• Four Histories About Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920: Constructing Discourses (London: University College London Press, 2016), by Nicholas Piercey
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Golden Goal? Uniting Supporters and Their Clubs (1999), by Jonathan Michie (PDF in the UK)

• Rules of the Association and Laws of the Game (2004-2005 season), by Football Association (England) (PDF at thefa.com)

• The FIFA Weekly (2013-) (full serial archives)
• FIFA World (2009-2013) (full serial archives)

• Rules of the Association and Laws of the Game (2004-2005 season), by Football Association (England) (PDF at thefa.com)

• Baseball Research Journal (published by the Society for American Baseball Research; 1972-), ed. by Bill James (partial serial archives)

• Balldom: "The Britannica of Baseball", Comprising the Growth of the Game in Detail (New York: Balldom Pub. Co., c1914), by George L. Moreland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Game (St. Louis: National Game Pub. Co., 1910), by Alfred H. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball (1845-1881), From the Newspaper Accounts (supplements for later years exist, but appear to be still under copyright; this volume Altadena, CA: The author, c1961), by Preston D. Orem (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball (1845-1881), From the Newspaper Accounts (supplements for later years exist, but appear to be still under copyright; this volume Altadena, CA: The author, c1961), by Preston D. Orem (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Game (St. Louis: National Game Pub. Co., 1910), by Alfred H. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov
• The Book of Baseball: The National Game From the Earliest Days to the Present Season (New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1911), by William Patten and J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pitching in a Pinch; or, Baseball from the Inside (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Christy Mathewson, contrib. by John N. Wheeler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov

• Blue Ice: The Story of Michigan Hockey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by John U. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Study of Man (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Bliss, Sands, and Co., 1898), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; With an Edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke, The Most Noble, Auncient, And learned Playe (1563) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Ann E. Moyer, contrib. by Ralph Lever and William Fulke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (2001 edition, with 2004 afterword), by Steven Poole (PDF with commentary at stevenpoole.net)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)
• Tempest: Geometries of Play (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (free web version, c2002), by James Hague (HTML with commentary at dadgum.com)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• The Tumult and the Shouting: My Life in Sport (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1954), by Grantland Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Player Win Averages: A Computer Guide to Winning Baseball Players (S. Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; London: T. Yoseloff, 1970), by Eldon G. Mills and Harlan D. Mills (PDF at Tennessee)

• Baseball Cyclopedia (New York: Baseball Magazine Co., c1922), by Ernest J. Lanigan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Spalding's Official Base Ball Record (partial serial archives)

• Official Report of the Olympic Games (slight variations in titles over the years; not all listed reports available) (partial serial archives)

• Old English Sports (London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by Frederick William Hackwood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (c1993), by Robert Edelman (PDF at la84.org)

• The Negro in Sports (San Francisco: Daily People's World, ca. 1947), by Nat Low, illust. by Pele Edises (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• University of California Publications in History (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Historical Studies (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Theological Studies (partial serial archives)
• Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany (partial serial archives)
• Beacon Lights of History (15 volumes, 1902), by John Lord (Gutenberg and archive.org volumes)
• Collected Papers: Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous (5 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1921), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eye-Witness (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Helps for Students of History (partial serial archives)
• Historic Oddities and Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1889), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Mysteries (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Sketches (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906-9), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume III: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Historische Werke (15 volumes in German; 1821-1828), by A. H. L. Heeren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Man in History: An Oration for the Columbian Year (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1893), by John Clark Ridpath (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The New History: Essays Illustrating The Modern Historical Outlook (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Secrets of the Past (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Allen Upward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Great Events in History (Historical series book 4 part 2; New York: D. Appleton, 1887), by James Johonnot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold (New York et al: American Book Co., c1896), by James Baldwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Meister der Politik: Eine Weltgeschichtliche Reihe von Bildnissen (second edition, 3 volumes in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1923-1924), ed. by Erich Marcks and Karl Alexander von Müller (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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