商品簡介
What are the origins of all the modern day contact sports, from grid iron football to Aussie Rules, rugby, and soccer? In this book, Christopher Rowley reveals how ball games arose and took shape into what we know today as football, soccer, rugby, and others. Ball games are traced back to ancient Egypt, Shang China, and the Olmecs in Meso-America, through the Greeks and the Romans, up to the period of 1840-1880 where the modern day codes began, and on to the present. This fascinating history of a global phenomenon will interest sports fans and historians alike.
作者簡介
Christopher Rowley is a journalist and reporter for a local newspaper in the Catskills region of New York. He is the author of 23 science fiction and fantasy novels.
