Pitch Publishing imprint: 247 books
by Alex Daley
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Fighting Men of London explores the lives of seven former professional boxers who fought in the capital between the 1930s and 1960s. Set around a series of interviews, it resurrects a golden age of the sport when boxing was as popular as football and Britain's leading fighters were working-class heroes....
Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff!
Roy’s True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Roy Race was Melchester Rovers' super striker, and later manager and chairman; he is known everywhere simply as 'Roy of the Rovers'. Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff is the inside story of his life with Melchester, told by the man who knows him better than anyone: editor Barrie Tomlinson, the man who helped...
Pompey's Boxing Past
Some of the Best Fighters from the Island City Since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Unsurprisingly for a city that has for centuries sent men to war, Portsmouth has produced numerous great fighters and Pompey's Boxing Past takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the lives of renowned fighting men of the past such as Billy Streets, Kid Connor, Harry Vine, Stoker Reynolds, Johnny...
Thou Shalt Not Pass
The Alistair Robertson Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
A legend at West Bromwich Albion and icon at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Alistair Robertson is a rare footballer who can walk tall either side of a bitter Black Country divide. The tough-tackling Scot spent 18 years at Albion, gaining promotion under Johnny Giles and becoming a rock during the club's...
Lost In France
The Remarkable Life and Death of Leigh Roose, Football's First Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 1914 one of Britain's most famous sportsmen went off to play his part in the First World War. Like millions of others, he would die. Unlike millions of others, nobody knew how or where. Until now. Lost in France is the true story of Leigh Roose: playboy, scholar, soldier and the finest goalkeeper...
Ride
BMX Glory, Against All the Odds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Ride lays bare the harrowing beginnings and the tough life lessons learned by superstar John Buultjens on his rise to BMX glory. Raised by his poor family in Glasgow, he slept rough to escape his father's beatings. Placed in a children's home, he adopted by a bi-racial couple. After conquering his...
Sweet Fighting Man
Ring of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Sweet Fighting Man is based on a collection of interviews with British boxers, from journeymen to champions. The book covers a timespan of over 50 years and features some classic personalities, such as Dave 'Boy' Green, the ever-popular British and European champion who fought for world titles against...
Ungloved
Memories from the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Benjamin Calder-Smith travelled around the UK for 18 months meeting and interviewing a broad cross-section of former fighters and boxing personalities. He now presents the stories of huge forgotten talents, coulda-been contenders and men who established a foothold in British boxing history, highlighting...
Superstar Body
Real-World Techniques for Achieving Your Goals
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Half instructional, half motivational, Superstar Body is a guide to what it takes to make your body into a vehicle for success. Nick Aldis - better known as Magnus from TNA Impact Wrestling, formerly 'Oblivion' from Sky One's Gladiators - takes you through his life and career, focusing on how he's achieved...
The Penalty King
The Autobiography of Johnny Hubbard, Rangers' Star of the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Johnny Hubbard was a tricky little winger and a huge Rangers star, one of the last surviving members the great 50s side. Known as 'The Penalty King' in recognition of his record 65 goals from 68 spot kicks, one of his goals was described by Sir Alex Ferguson as 'easily the best I've ever seen!' Aged...
I Remember 67 Well
Celtic's European Cup Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The 25th May 1967 is a date ingrained into the DNA of every Celtic supporter. Their club will always be the first British winners of the European Cup, having beaten Inter Milan in the final with a late Stevie Chalmers goal, on a balmy Lisbon night - but for some, grainy YouTube clips and faded news cuttings...
Out of the Shadows
The Story of the 1982 England World Cup Team
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Out of the Shadows: The Story of the 1982 England World Cup Team is a detailed account of how the national side - World Cup winners in 1966 - went through years in the football wilderness, missing two World Cup finals through inglorious failure. The appointment of Ron Greenwood as manager, replacing...
Playing the Game?
Cricket's Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality is actually something of a myth. Playing the Game? looks at the changing ethics of cricket, from its gentlemanly roots right up until the present day....
Ambassadors of Goodwill
MCC Tours 1946/47-1970/71
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Since Victorian times, the MCC had embraced the amateur ideal that cricket was more than a game. It was the very essence of camaraderie and good sportsmanship. Yet for all their evangelising, the game's privileged elite were part of a British establishment which revelled in its national prestige and...