Pitch Publishing: 248 books
Lonsdale's Belt
Boxing's Most Coveted Prize
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
For more than one hundred years the Lonsdale Belt, first awarded in 1909 by the legendary National Sporting Club and since 1936 by the British Boxing Board of Control, has encircled the waists of all the great names in British boxing history: Freddie Welsh and Ted 'Kid' Lewis; Benny Lynch and Jimmy Wilde;...
His Own Man
Otto Peltzer: Champion Athlete, Nazi Victim, Indian Hero
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
His Own Man is the story - the first in English - of an unjustly forgotten athlete, who ascended the heights, fell from grace under the Nazis, then achieved redemption coaching street children in India. Born with the twentieth century, Otto Peltzer overcame a lonely childhood, beset by illness, to gain...
Second XI
Cricket in its Outposts
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
As the world's second most popular sport, cricket is much richer and more diverse than many realise. Globally, passionate players give up holidays, time with loved ones and hard-earned money to achieve the extraordinary and play for their country. Afghanistan, whose captain grew up on a refugee camp,...
by Richard Crooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Grandson Charlie attending a Championship game at Hillsborough prompts Richard Crooks to transport himself back to the 1970s and recall what football was really like for supporters in the 1970s. Crooks provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative on all things football in that decade, and brings...
by Jarrod Kimber
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
English cricket fans will love Jarrod Kimbers second Ashes book Australian Autopsy Australian cricket fans perhaps less so! Using his own unique brand of dry humour Aussie Kimber tells the story of theevents of the winter 2010/11 series and Englands record breaking 3-1 victory Down Under. Kimbertravels...
by Steve Menary
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
GB United? is the story of the only time that the four parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland managed to settle their differences and play as a team in the Olympic Games. As the book charts the history of a team that played long before the World Cup existed but vanished four...
Talk of the City
A History of Norwich City in 1000 Quotes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
What is the best-known quote in the history of Norwich City? Decades of drama have produced millions of words of wit, wisdom, fury and folly from a range of great characters including players, managers, directors, supporters, journalists, commentators and celebrities. Now Canaries fans can relive the...
by Alan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Three times an Ashes winner, Trevor Bailey is regarded along with Ian Botham as Englands premier all-rounder since the Second World War. He was a schoolboy prodigy at Dulwich College and won cricket and soccer blues at Cambridge University and an FA Amateur Cup winners medal with Walthamstow in 1951/2....
28 Days' Data
England's Troubled Relationship with One Day Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
We will have to look at the data. As this quote hit the airwaves it was said to sum up England's backward and stuttering performance at the 2015 World Cup. It didn't matter that Peter Moores, the coach at the time, had been misheard - he said he would look at it later. The narrative of a team held back...
From Light to Dark
The Story of Blind Dave Heeley
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Born sighted, 'Blind' Dave Heeley showed athletic promise from an early age, smashing his town's 1500-metre track record aged just 11 years old. However, a devastating diagnosis shattered his sporting dreams and he hastily gave up on sporting activity. From Light To Dark charts Dave's story and how he...
by Tim Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From sun-kissed olive groves to frosty pine glades, cricket is played in every corner of continental Europe. But the game is fragile at its frontiers, struggling for profile and participants on a football-obsessed continent. Cricket on the Continent reflects on how the sport was exported, introduced...
The Great English Final
1953: Cup, Coronation & Stanley Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers had everything: seven goals, a dramatic comeback and, in Stanley Matthews, a fairytale hero. Sixty years on, this legendary game has come to represent a golden age - the year when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned and a British expedition conquered...
Play Up Sky Blues
Coventry City's Rise to the Top
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Play Up Sky Blues tells the story of Coventry City's finest season when they reached the First Division for the first time in the club's history. Under their charismatic manager Jimmy Hill, the Sky Blues had narrowly missed out on promotion in 1966 and, strengthened by the arrival of record signing...
Champions
The Story of Burnley's Instant Return to the Premier League
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Champions is the story of Burnley's Championship title win of season 2015/16. In the world of the big city football clubs, Burnley remains the club from the small town that continues to defy the odds through its good management and careful budgeting. This is the third promotion to the Premier League...