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Voices In Time

1896 | England

Immortality

Housman’s elegy to an athlete dying young.More

Voices In Time

1959 | Washington, DC

Rigged Game

Investigating America’s quiz show scandals.More

Voices In Time

1653 | Staffordshire

To Fish, to Live

Izaak Walton on an angler’s delight.More

Voices In Time

c. 109 | Rome

Team Colors

Pliny the Younger cannot understand why fans root for clothes.More

Voices In Time

c. 1580 | Delhi

Great Balls of Fire

Akbar lights up the polo field.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Detroit

Race Car

Henry Ford remembers the car that changed everything.More

Voices In Time

1834 | Oklahoma

Watching Lacrosse

George Catlin describes a Choctaw game.More

Voices In Time

c. 700 BC | Sparta

Title Nine

The athletic, educated, and outspoken women of Sparta.More

Voices In Time

1928 | Chicago

Learning from the Master

Norman Maclean gets a billiards lesson from America’s first Nobel Prize–winning scientist.More

Voices In Time

1944 | Yugoslavia

A Good Defense

Charles Simic plays a game of chess.More

Voices In Time

1849 | Tahiti

Surf’s Up

Herman Melville catches a wave.More

Voices In Time

c. 190 | Rome

Shooting Gallery

Emperor Commodus and his menagerie of death.More

Voices In Time

1854 | Yokohama

A Pair of Fierce Bulls

Commodore Perry is fascinated by sumo.More

Voices In Time

c. 300 | Rome

We Who Are About to Die Salute You

Lord Byron observes a dying gladiator.More

Voices In Time

c. 500 | Wallingford

Staging a Tournament

Chrétien de Troyes on jousting for King Arthur.More

Voices In Time

1897 | London

The Playing Fields

British war games.More

Voices In Time

1954 | Oxford

Picking Up the Pace

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile.More

Voices In Time

212 BC | Olympia

Underdog

How to win the crowd.More

Voices In Time

1893 | Cove Neck, NY

Taste for Blood

Theodore Roosevelt’s hunting habits.More

Voices In Time

c. 590 BC | Athens

Lucian Asks, Why Sports?

Discussing the purpose of athletics.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Wonderland

A Curious Game Indeed

Alice struggles to manage her flamingo.More

Voices In Time

29 BC | Japan

Namesake

The origins of sumo.More

Voices In Time

c. 100 | Alexandria

The Drug of Folly

Sports’ culture of intoxication.More

Voices In Time

1911 | San Diego

National Pastime

The manifold genius of American baseball.More

Voices In Time

1618 | Lancashire

Lawful Recreation

James I sets the rules for Sunday sports.More

Voices In Time

c. 1891 | Kashmir

Cow Skin

Soccer, empire, and morality in Kashmir.More

Voices In Time

1621 | Oxford

Endgames

Robert Burton on the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.More

Voices In Time

c. 1300 BC | Boeotia

Ovid as Sportswriter

Hippomenes wins the trophy wife.More

Voices In Time

1846 | Brooklyn

Playing Ball and Base

Walt Whitman praises a whole new ball game.More

Voices In Time

1883 | New Orleans

Boat Race

Mark Twain watches the steamboats whistle by.More

Voices In Time

1887 | India

On Safari

A lady goes hunting for tigers.More

Voices In Time

1884 | Richmond

Color Barrier

Just writing to say the blood will be on your hands.More

Voices In Time

27 | Fidenae

Low Overhead

Tragedy at the stadium.More

Voices In Time

1885 | United States

People Will Look

“The tricycle has come to stay.”More

Voices In Time

c. 215 | China

Courtyard Fight

Attending a cockfight in China.More

Voices In Time

1896 | Paris

Antidote to War

Pierre de Coubertin revives the Olympic games.More

Voices In Time

c. 1943 | United States

A League of Their Own

Rules of conduct for professional women’s baseball.More

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