SUPERMEN HEROES AND GODS: The Story of Sport Through the Ages

by Walter Umminger

This entertaining, brilliantly documented history of sports, from the beginning of recorded time to the twentieth century, shows how the human need to excel at feats of strength and skill has changed the course of civilization. Without man's willingness for contests, there would have been no striving for records - whether in peaceful games or warlike pursuits - and no urge for man to improve his own performance or surpass his neighbor's, no exploration, and perhaps no progress.

342 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1963